The Duke of Sussex “ruled out the life of a man of action to become a benefactor of the air fairies” with “an awake life on the West Coast,” said a royal biographer.
Prince Harry, 36, and Meghan Markle, 39, are currently residing in their $ 14 million Santa Barbara mansion with their one-year-old son Archie and have accumulated up to £ 100 million in deals with Spotify and Netflix.
Royal expert Angela Levin, who wrote Harry: Conversations with the Prince in 2018, said the duke had become a ‘shadow of his former self’ since moving to California.
Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, she said that while Prince Harry ‘refused to be’ the spare ‘of Prince William, he seems to accept being second after Meghan’.
The Duke of Sussex “ruled out life as a man of action to become a benefactor of the air fairies” with “an awake life on the West Coast,” said a royal biographer
The biographer said that Prince Harry’s recent appearances were “unusual” by the royalty she knew, who would instantly identify with everyone he spoke to.
She referred to her previous work with Help for Heroes, those with disabilities and dysfunctional teenagers – but said it seems a distant memory compared to the version of the prince she sees today.
The biographer also made reference to this year’s Memory Day, when Harry and Meghan celebrated by visiting Los Angeles National Cemetery to pay tribute to the dead Commonwealth soldiers.
The couple was criticized for getting celebrity fashion photographer Lee Morgan to capture his personal Remembrance act, with many marking the visit as a ‘publicity stunt’.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have accumulated up to £ 100 million in deals with Spotify and Netflix
Angela said that Harry, in particular, would have been a great source of comfort for the British during the Covid pandemic, but regretted that he had been hiding in Santa Barbara during the pandemic.
Still, she commented that reports that the duo wants a 12-month extension to the Megxit deal indicate that the duke is losing “all privileges” of being a member of royalty, including his honorary military titles and charities.
She said, ‘Maybe he just realizes that royalty is forever, but celebrity isn’t.’
His comments come days after royal expert Hugo Vickers said that Prince Harry is’ isolated from his family, the army, his friends, the Commonwealth ‘in the United States, telling The Telegraph:’ It is a useless existence in self-exile. ‘
She claimed that Harry, portrayed in a TIME 100 talk last year at his California home, has become a ‘shadow of his old self’ since moving to the U.S.
The royal biographer compared the actions of Prince Harry to that of Prince William, 38, and Kate Middleton, 38, adding: ‘During the NHS clapping, I thought how, after the Cambridges clapped, it would have been great to have heard of him.’
Earlier this week, the Duke and Duchess launched their non-profit Archewell’s website and set their goal of ‘building a better world’ in an open letter posted online.
But the site prominently connects the couple’s commercial endeavors – Archewell Audio, the brand they chose for their £ 30 million podcasting deal with Spotify, and Archewell Productions, their name chosen for the Netflix production partnership that says worth up to £ 100 million.
Since they stepped down as senior royalty in March and moved to the U.S., Harry and Meghan have been working at this point to officially launch, albeit smoothly, the website and philosophy behind their Archewell organization.
The royal expert said the duke’s recent actions were “unusual” for him (photo, on Remembrance Day)
The decision to leave was based on both financial freedom and personal freedom and the huge sums – considered to be well over £ 100 million – that they have earned from doing business with Spotify and Netflix, which gives them capital to pursue their new lifestyle and public objectives.
The announcement follows his first Spotify podcast on Tuesday, which saw his son Archie make his broadcast debut.
Commentators have already speculated that Harry and Meghan will have to attract large audiences if they are to justify the lucrative contract that their production company Archewell Audio signed.