What's going wrong for Meghan and Harry? Controversy surrounding royals | 60 Minutes Australia

when Princess Diana's baby boy fell in love with a gorgeous American starlet we all went then things got even better Prince Harry and Megan marker were married and in doing so took on the role of Duke and Duchess of the world but now something has happened the couple appeared who want a little privacy too much to ask you bet the public feel cheated the tabloids have turned and the blame game much of it directed at Megan is fierce it hasn't yet progressed to off with her head but it's still a major headache for the royal family [Music] it started so well a dashing prince with the love of his life the announcement of an engagement it's beautiful and he designed it it's incredible and plans for a wedding [Music] sure there were a few hiccups she's not gonna tell me that I can't speak in law's acting like outlaws if I had a message for Harriet's kid over it I'm your new father-in-law Barba's Megan Markel walked down the aisle to be with Prince Harry the whole world was happy [Music] fast forward 15 months the fairy tale has fractured and one person is copying all the blame Andrew what on earth has Meaghan done well Megan seems to be a version of the Antichrist as far as fleet-street concerned and it's almost a royal rite of passage you've got to go through Andrew Morton has spent a lifetime making the private lives of the royal family public but he reckons Megan Markov bashing has gone too far you don't know what's going on really and yet the the the kind of casual vituperation of Megan and Harry is in his it makes you shudder I mean it's not like she's done anything wrong she's just basically living her life as a royal she's in my view she's done everything right it's quite revealing that Megan said when she joined the royal family that she was going to hit the ground running unlike Morton former palace insider Patrick Jefferson says Megan needs work to make it as a royal of course we love people who have the ground running energy enthusiasm motivation let's do it but you've got to know where you're running to and who's running with you and what are you gonna say when you get there at what should be the happiest time of the newlyweds lives things have gone famously arrived for Megan and in turn Harry two eyebrows were first raised when taxpayers funded their four million dollar house rent oh the Duke and Duchess have been criticised for demanding privacy yet still accepting taxpayers money for renovations on their home more tut-tutting when the couple kept little Archie away from public view I mean they could have come out in a glass carriage just to show us the baby in the christening gown then Megan was slammed for acting like a snob at the tennis this is not a private visit if you'll be duchess of Sussex getting a freebie your Wimbledon in the VIP see it's not private visit and now a further frenzy of outrage because these eco-warriors like to travel in style a lot of people have labeled them hypocrites because they've taken four private jet flights in just 11 days Andrew Morton says it's just not worth the hot air it seems to me that Megan really should be given applause not and bouquets rather than via taxes she and Harry are suffering from I don't think they're listening to you though who's they well the press has she really provoked the British media so badly the British media are notoriously fickle they have an antenna for when the royal family is not being entirely straight with them and this may be why Megan and other members of the family have taken far more control of their own image [Music] then look at all these tourists here a lot of people and it's a sunny day yeah well you know they've come to see Harry and Meg's they have not come to see Harry and Meg's they've come to see the Queen they've come to pay respect to the great British tradition of the monarchy they've come to see real Royals outside the gates of the world's most famous family home today there's only one winner in a popularity poll about young royal wives a billion times better Megan does not hold a candle to King I'm here with British commentator Katie Hopkins Meghan's interesting no she's fickle she's of the moment she's this deep who says someone has to speak for the commoners and expose the real Megan Markel Katie why do you hate Megan so much ah what has she ever done to you Oh everything it's my royal family this is my country Prince Harry is my Prince Harry so jealous I'm not jealous I'm like who wants to be Megan Marco like I'm unpopular I've known as the biggest [ __ ] in Britain the only person in Britain who's more unpopular than me Megan Marco I don't think that's right I think that's true katie is nothing if not outspoken but she genuinely believes the future of the royal family is at stake unless Megan Markel is banished forthwith megha Marco is the biggest hypocrite there is what does mega Marco do we've got to save the planet save the planet Oh do one good thing every day I'll burp up about them what does she do get on for private flights to wherever land at four hundred thousand pounds a week higher and then uses up half the co2 emissions that anyone else might have had it's pure hypocrisy and what is she really she's a no one she's a divorcee when did we want a divorcee in the royal family she wears bad clothes when did we ask for that we've just got so much better of our own strong words maybe some embellishment but here in Britain it's backed up by Megan's disapproval ratings a recent survey found the duchess divisive and ranked her the second most disliked female royal after camilla they were old knackered old skeptics like me old Haggard women gang I wasn't very good and then that's sort of the young beautiful people going oh we love her social media or fabulous fabulous Beyonce that's the split and the Haggard ones have got even more entrenched in their hatred and I think even the young ones are skeptical because Prince Harry's lost all of his Vava voom what irks Katie is the damage he thinks Megan is causing to Harry's reputation maybe Harry doesn't give us stuff when anyone thinks he's just chosen someone for himself and maybe he's sick of the media and maybe he doesn't like people like you having a running commentary on his life it is his life sort of but then again I just paid 2.3 million pounds as a taxpayer in order to redevelop frog mayor cottage for him and his wife I just paid for his wife to sit in the rule box at Wimbledon that went well I just yeah that was splendid she wouldn't let anyone take a photograph of herself and asked to be sat alone so give and take go leave the royal family abdicate off you go my concern about Megan is that she's allowing the her PR to be driven from America so she's at American friends her American caught as you will Oprah George Clooney Amal Clooney Serena Williams all standing up for her which is good but it's it's it's from the perspective of America as opposed to the perspective of Britain Andrew Morton famously wrote a best-seller about Harry's mum Princess Diana and in Megan Markel he sees history repeating itself I remember Princess Diana she was called the fairytale princess when she first married Prince Charles within a year she was being called a fiend and a monster because her because a lot of members of staff bodyguards valid private secretaries had left Fergie as Duchess of York starts offers a breath of fresh air great friend of the Queen goes carriage driving and goes horse riding with the Queen and Prince Philip and then within a matter of months she's dubbed free be Fergie because yes for a discount on a kitchen so you know is this is what's happened as colorful as the British royal families always been their whiteness has dominated and that brings us to a sensitive subject I think that's where people go with this if I criticized Megan as we can Here I am people say well you're racist and honestly it's only been a second thought to me only it only comes up in the minds of those who are truly racist and that's never people like me I'm just observing the dress is better on Kate has she wears it is better so this racist thing is really old and tired but I think it's just people's way of sort of saying you must not criticize Megan [Music] I think that the whole racial question is is entirely misleading it's irrelevant and I would warn against anybody taking that line as a any sort of explanation as to why Megan sometimes doesn't get the press she necessarily once in Prince Harry played the racism card to an extent yeah and I advise strongly against him doing that did you yeah if you take that point of view then you're gonna miss perhaps some more relevant reasons to why Megan isn't as popular as she should be for eight years Patrick Jefferson was Princess Diana's private secretary he saw the pressure public scrutiny brings but says like diana did the modern royals must learn to cope with it [Music] it's confusing for I'm sure royal life is very similar to celebrity life but celebrity lives are earned royal lives are granted coming up gotten friends come back to borrow just a jilted friend I'm not empty trailer oh I'm not and can the ghost of Diana save Harry and Megan's fractured fairy tale Megan doesn't need to look anywhere else but at the legacy of her mother Anna that's next on six units I'm not this high I'm not dissing the dirt on Megan not at all I'm being honest as a friend and someone that knew her before Harry knew I didn't even know she was famous when I met her I didn't know who she was with so-called friends like British media personality Lizzie Conde Megan Markel probably doesn't need enemies what did you think of her I thought she was great fun looking for a guy she loved England she says they were great buddies before Megan met Harry she said she wanted a boyfriend she wanted a celebrity boyfriend and never in my wildest dreams would I ever think that she would end up marrying Prince Harry [Music] but when Megan joined the firm this Lizzi was dumped in favor of another I think Megan changed to a girl that maybe was more manipulating and doing what Megan wants to do I kind of saw a different side come on you're just a jilted friend I'm not I promise I'm not I'm really not a jilted trained at all but I feel that they could do things so much better I don't think you can lecture about the planet and then take full private jets I wanted her to be the next Princess Diana I think she still can be but Princess Diana was about everyone else and it appears that Megan is about Megan a lot of the time [Music] and here's another problem for Megan could anyone live up to the memory of the mother-in-law from heaven Princess Diana's former private secretary Patrick Jefferson says in the eyes of the British public it's an almost impossible task but it could be the key to winning Megan's PR battle she was in the business of life and death of dealing with people regardless of race or gender or background who were at the bottom of the heap whose lives were miserable people who were stigmatized people who were Outsiders outcasts so today aids isn't stigmatized leprosy isn't Sigma ties mental illness is is transformed all Diana's work so what you're saying is that Megan doesn't need to look anywhere else but at the legacy of her mother-in-law Megan isn't and never has been an ordinary British person so part of her challenge is to work out what it feels like what it is to be an ordinary British person and not to be one but to understand therefore how best to use her extraordinary influence and high profile so what's the blueprint then for Megan to be a success the blueprint involves not doing more but probably doing less she is after all wife of the 6th in line to the throne that means that she is constitutionally irrelevant however that's not a very nice way everything however she is obviously very high profile and that combination has never really happened before [Music] back at Buckingham Palace Katie Hopkins is still railing against Megan but there's also an admission an economic Markel Sparkle parian Meg's a new money I can almost hear the tills yes they are new money and I do think in terms of a new kind of era of profitability the social media generation for the royal family and all of that of course Marvel's got that sewn up but but this is what it's all second I nearly said something nice about concede that she's good for Royal business no she's good for business she's good for Megan marshals business now while Megan thrashing seems to be a popular sport at the moment it also pays to remember her greatest supporter is also a great warrior I think Harry is the most interesting part of this whole story so true he's doing his own thing tree is almost winding everyone up to come get me come get me because I'm after a fight oh this is so true and it is very much like he is just determined to go anti-establishment he's flicking the V sign to everything that he was brought up by so it's not Megan it's Harry's fault its Harry but Harry is redeemable because Harry was in a uniform and he was in a helicopter and he was in Afghanistan Megan was only ever in cheap movies in reality the fate of the royal family doesn't rest on Harry or Megan there's an order of things and traditions one person can't make or break do you think Harry wants out well he's always said that you know if he could he'd love to be a safari grant a guide and I'm sure that he's just he does think to himself what on earth am I doing this for sometimes but at the end of the day Katherine's gonna be the queen and Megan is gonna always have to curtsy tower will there be any dramas there well there's always gonna be drama but I mean it you know everything is geared towards turning the house of windsor into a soap opera hello i'm liz hayes thanks for watching to keep up with the latest from 60 minutes Australia make sure you subscribe to our Channel you can also download the 9 now app for full episodes and other 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Length: 18min 34sec (1114 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 08 2019