Charles Is "Playing a Clever Long Game" in Handling Harry and Meghan's Netflix Drama

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We are living through a golden era of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle truth bombs about royal life. Between the release of their Netflix docuseries, Harry & Meghan, in December and the fact that Harry's memoir, Spare, is due out in less than two weeks, the Sussexes and their story have been pretty much all people can talk about in the royal-obsessed corners of the internet.

In spite of the constant stream of buzz from royal fans, trolls, anonymous insiders, and royal commentators and experts, however, the *actual* royals have remained conspicuously silent about all things Harry and Meghan lately.

According to royal historian David Starkey, this strategy (which, as king, Charles would seem to have final say over), is actually a very smart move for the royal family. According to Starkey, Harry and Meghan aren't very popular in the UK right now anyway, which makes flat out ignoring things like the explosive claims they made in their Netflix series a totally viable (and potentially very successful) PR strategy, apparently.

"I don't think [Harry and Meghan] matter much, look at the opinion polls today," he said while discussing all the royal drama of 2022 on GB News, according to The Mirror. "I mean, a near majority of people not only say they don't much like them, but they actually want them stripped of their titles. With every passing day, I think with every desperate attempt at taking a little molehill of grievance and trying to turn it into a vast, vast Himalayas of resentment, they become less relevant. What I think Charles is doing is actually playing a rather clever long game. He's just letting events take their course, which I think is a very wise thing to do."

Charles even notably kept up with this "blatantly ignore all things Sussex" strategy during his first Christmas speech as King, in which he gave shoutouts to some members of the fam (like Prince William and Kate Middleton), but made exactly zero mentions to Harry or Meghan:

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