She never intended on staying, they were already making interview and media plans when engaged. She wanted the fame and money, and the latter didn't appear because it was a hierarchy so they threw their toys out of the pram. Harry was totally shielded by the press and the palace's construction of Hero Harry to rehab his image with Invictus Games which he stole from the US Warrior Games, et cetera. I even bought the Harry narrative! More fool me. They bent over backwards to make Meghan and Harry happy. But as one courtier has said - she never wanted to be happy, always looking for a slight.Where are M and H now then? Think W and K could really use the help.
I’ve never bought in to the whole “British press were always out to get M and H” thing. Meghan on arrival into the family had a dubious reaction from the royalists mainly due to her background as an American actress rather than anything else. No different to Waity Katie and her air-hostess mum. Difference is Kate kept her head down and got on with it so the British public were eventually won over. The same absolutely could have happened to M and H, in fact I think they could have easily outstripped the other two in popularity if they had any desire to crack on with the job. And yeah, H probably got some dodgy headlines in his youth but I think that was more because the press knew the public enjoyed a scandalous bad boy persona rather than anything sinister in Williams favour.
William affair stories come from, for me, people who knew him and Kate at uni (who I know) as well as all the 'I'm FREE!' and stories of him bringing girls into Sandhurst when they were dating. They broke up a lot. He went after other women - Isabella Branson comes to mind who called him a boor. There was a lot out there in the aughts!
Kate was loyal and kept her head down and her mouth shut. William values loyalty and discretion above all. He also valued her family who would pay for his holidays, keep their mouths shut, and made him the center of their universe.
They really need better PR people and William threw her to the wolves by refusing to work really and then the terse, combative PR statements, then this hot mess and blaming her for it (though 100% the photoshop job is by an amateur, I bet she did photoshop it, fine to share on Insta, not fine to share with press agencies).