Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at the “Games of the Invincible” (Invictus Games) demonstrated magical ability appear in public “rarely, but aptly.” When they first arrived in Europe after refusing to perform royal duties, they amazed the audience: Harry – openness, Megan – outfitsand both by indifference to the rules of royal protocol.
Five security guards, a $2,000-a-night Hilton and $8,600-per-day suits – The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s trip to The Hague has been called “royal” by the British press, though King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands did not accept them in the palaceas representatives of the British monarchy. Recall that Garry is a patron and one of the organizers of international multidisciplinary competitions for former and active military personnel who were wounded or disabled in the service. They have been held in different countries since 2014, and the Netherlands was supposed to host them in 2020, but due to the coronavirus pandemic, the competition had to be postponed until mid-April 2022.
Since then, much has changed in the life of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex – they resigned from their royal duties, and now their behavior is not limited by protocol. In this regard, they are violating royal rule number one everywhere: do not take selfies with fans. Pages of tabloids and private blogs are full of photos from the series “me and Meghan” and “me and Harry.” For example, when the Duchess visited the children’s readings at the Zuiderpark, outside the tent in which she read to 12 children, there were crowds of people who wanted to be photographed with her as a keepsake.
By the way, she admitted to one of the participants in the games, British Army veteran James Stride, that she had never parted with her three-year-old son Archie and ten-month-old daughter Lilibet for such a long time and misses them very much. She told him that she decided to take part in the reading to the children because it reminded her of her little ones back home in California. Another violation of the protocol, or rather, two at the same time, was recorded by the tabloids at the evening reception for the participants in the games. Meghan showed up in a $3,600 Valentino mini-short dress that was banned for royalty, and flashed her bare legs as she posed for a selfie.
As for Prince Harry, he impressed all the participants and spectators of the Invincible Games with his openness, sociability and spontaneity. He gently held Megan behind her back, hugged veterans, kissed the hands of women on the podium, opened the car door for his assistants and talked to children at ease. Speaking at the opening of the games, he also spoke about what his son plans to become:
When I talk to my son Archie about what he wants to be when he grows up, sometimes it’s an astronaut, sometimes a pilot – apparently a helicopter pilot – or Quasi the pirate from The Octonauts … But I remind him that no matter who you want to be when you grow up, what matters most is your character. And his mother and I cannot be more proud of him than if we make sure that his character remains the same as it is now.
On Monday, Meghan flew home to the children, leaving Harry to break protocol alone.
Source: Hellomagazine
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