My brother thinks this is all hilarious and says the royals let this all happen because although they know it will end in(Harry's) tears. They also know he is a runaway train so felt it best he gets this out of his system and perhaps the ensuing messy break up will knock some sense into him and he'll come home chastened. Like pulling off a plaster swiftly rather than prolonging the agony bit by painful bit. It could explain the royal stance of going along with things I suppose.
Me, I think the Clooneys, Obamas, Oprah etc are hedging their bets. From the initial 100% support they've all been rather quiet. They see that that Ginge is just a 'sort of' royal now, and Cringe is not even that (by blood). Queenie barring them the use of HRH was a great move, well done maam you took away the Holy Grail that Cringe coveted
. There will be many red carpet events and celebrations that
real royals will be invited to. It would be very embarrassing to shake hands and smile inanely at a royal (especially if it's William or Kate ) who you've sort of been critical of in your rush to ingratiate yourself with the Harkles. The celebs will do it, but they'll look like the hypocritical dicks they mostly are.
Also I'd bet my last pay cheque that to a man/woman they were secretly dreading potentially having to curtsey to the c list actress who got thoroughly noisily banged in the storage room on Suits.
A lighting director in his era wasn't expected to know media protocol and I doubt he's bothered upgrading that lack of knowledge. He did his job behind the scenes and went home.
But yes, her whole family is weird, though Dorito is way more weird than Thomas himself (going by her dubious history) and she gets a free pass.