LONDON – In case you’re wondering, Meghan still really hates the Buckingham Palace building and is upset that she lacked voice, agency and autonomy when she and Harry were still part of the official royal family.
How else to interpret an extraordinary statement by Meghan this weekend in which she accused shadow forces at the palace of “dictating” that she would change her name on her son Archie’s birth certificate?
On the original certificate, registered on May 17, 2019, the Duchess gave her name “Rachel Meghan Her Royal Highness Duchess of Sussex”.
But 19 days later, on June 5, the royal couple submitted changes to both names.
The duchess’s name was “corrected” to read only “Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Sussex”, which led to some speculation as to why this happened.
A spokeswoman for the duchess said: “The change of name on public documents in 2019 was dictated by the Palace, confirmed by the documents of senior officials of the Palace. This was not requested by Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, nor by the Duke of Sussex.
To see this British tabloid and the carnival of the so-called “experts”, they chose to deceptively deceive this in a calculated “scaling” of the family and to suggest that, strangely, he would like to be without name on her child’s birth certificate or any other legal document would be ridiculous if it were not offensive.
“There’s a lot going on in the world – let’s focus on that, rather than create a clickbait.”
The word “dictate”, just in case you’re wondering, is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “to issue as an order ”or“ to impose, pronounce or specify in an authoritarian manner ”, and Meghan’s use of the word in her angry statement certainly captures the feeling that Meghan’s wishes were considered completely irrelevant by the palace that imposed change.
It is interesting to note that Sunday to Sunday, who broke the story over the weekend, claims that they contacted Meghan’s press team about the story, but did not receive an answer.
It’s a fair comment from the Meghan team that the newspaper speculated that the name change could have been a pop at Kate Middleton’s was free – and stupid. Indeed, this is exactly what Tim Teeman noted in The Daily Beast’s royal weekly, in which he wrote: “The Sun claims this as a resistance against William and Kate, because Kate has her name on her children’s birth certificates. The possibility of the decision was made for personal reasons, which are not fully related, is not raised. ”
However, Sussex’s policy of “zero engagement” with British tabloids, such as Sun It seems that it will result in the Sussex side not being put on when those works write about them.
Meghan often complained that she felt silent about the palace. In an interview with site 19, for example, she said: “I know what it’s like to have a voice and also what it means to feel voiceless.”
In one of his few joint appearances with William and Kate, he spoke for the last time, and when the microphone was not handed to him, he said coldly, “Don’t I have a voice?”
But it seems, at least from Sun Sunday recounting the events he was asked to comment on the strange name change on both of Archie’s certificates, which after all is a public matter and he chose not to.
This is hardly considered to be silenced and this means that this is not a story about the outrageous press abuse that Meghan’s statement seems to suggest. More seems to be a warning story about the inadmissibility of responding in a timely manner to genuine press inquiries. And given that Meghan and Harry have a $ 100 million deal with Netflix and a lucrative podcast deal with Spotify, the complaint about the palace’s denial of the agency a few years ago seems a bit like the fight against yesterday’s war.
As he notes, there are “many things in the world” right now.
On Sunday, Buckingham Palace sources suggested that a “clerical error and nothing more” was to blame for amending Archie’s certificate.
We have to ask ourselves if Meghan, using this story to analyze the crust of her troubled relationship with the palace and the press, really improves things.
For, although it remains unclear why the birth certificate was amended, Meghan’s statement shows very clearly that her resentment, painful, towards the palace is not yet in question at all.