 It takes quite a while for me to pay attention to any royal story often when i hear on the radio someone talk about prince charles prince harry whoever i tend to switch off however in various situations there are moments where my ears do prick up diana conspiracy theories for example and anything. Connected to her death i will i will listen to i will roll back so i can listen to it again. The harry and megan saga has also kind of got to that level for me i can't ignore it i'm actually finding it. Very interesting and the beef between prince harry megan marco and the rest of the royals heated up today that was with the release of a promotional clip from their sit down interview with oak pro winery. You know for me i'm just really relieved and happy to be sitting here talking to you with my wife by my side. Because i can't begin to imagine what it must have been like for her going through this process by herself. All those years ago because it's been unbelievably tough for the two of us but at least we had each other. I'm gonna be watching that ninety minutes that was a real. Dig i think is dad because he's saying you know we've been dragged through the mud by the british press we've had the royal family against us but at least we've got each other diana had to go through that on her own. Should be very interesting it also comes after an interview between james cordon and prince harry that was last week and they drove around la on an open top bus it was very much like light entertainment kind of entertaining. Prince harry in that blame britain's toxic press for pushing him to stand back from royal duties as is to be expected all of this. I'm prince harry and megan marco resigning from from front line royal duties and then going and doing a lot of interviews with the american press that's really riling up. I'm lots of britain's red faced talking heads this was pierce Morgan this morning i'm he tweeted. Summary of his article for the daily mail it takes a staggering degree of narcissism to play hard done by victims from your californian mansion as the world reels from a pandemic and prince philip lies seriously ill in hospital. The only service megan harry know is self service and now pierce morgan getting angry at a young attractive couple won't come as much of a surprise but i mean obviously there are elements of truth in that as well these are definitely not the two people who i feel the most sympathy for at the moment. I'm even if the people who they are angry against i kind of have even less sympathy for in this situation of going back to the media it's not just the likes of pierce morgan you know very outwardly. Ideological shop jocks to some extent that's one of the things that pierce morgan does also does some good interviews but it's also bbc royal correspondents who are sort of getting in and seeming really annoyed megan and harry not particularly professional this was. Nicholas which or who is the bbc's royal correspondent explaining an exchange between harry megan and the queen when they resigned from royal duties a couple of weeks ago. There's almost an unspoken sentence which doesn't appear in the statement after that a life of public service like i have led like my husband has led at the age of nearly 100 like the rest of your family continue to lead but which you have decided to opt out of. Of course they're saddened as the statement says they're deeply disappointed i think that this is how matters have turned out and then the sussex's statement which concludes with these couple of phrases. We can all live a life of service service is universal isn't there just a sense there of thumbing their noses don't tell us how to lead our lives so i think on both sides harry i think we'll now. Perhaps finally realize the implications of the decision that they have taken. He looks like he's gonna have an aneurysm i think harry will finally realize the implications of the decision he has taken thumbing his nose at the queen he does not realize the meaning of service none of them realize the meaning of service let's be frank here they're all talking about you can resign from the royal family and still live a life of public service. Whether or not prince harry resigns from the royal family he is not living a life of public service in both cases he's either living off tax payers money or he's living off advertising revenues from interviews he's doing because for the first. You know how a roll is 30 odd years of his life he was living off public money in any case ash. You know they do you know people like pears morgan do have a point when they say these are self-promoting people complaining about the press and then doing very. Well we presume in these cases well paid interviews with the press so it is a bit hypocritical at the same time he's annoyed because the press and the royal family were terrible to his mother who then died. You got some sympathy with him where do you stand on this. Celebrities hypocritical wow I never never heard of the concept before I think it's actually sort of useful to contextualize this and then and take a little bit of a step back because what's happening isn't. Megan and harry escape the aristocracy what they've done is that they've escaped the British aristocracy which is deeply feudal deeply old fashioned wedded to systems of hierarchy which you cannot separate from white supremacy because of the fact of the composition of the British aristocracy. In order to enter the American aristocracy which is made up of this kind of upper echelon of those who've reached the top of their fields whether that's in celebrity media acting or politics so they want to become part of this social strata which includes the likes of. Barack and Michelle of Beyonce and Jay Z of Oprah Winfrey of Ellen DeGeneres how this American aristocracy obviously is not feudal in nature and it's the kind of product of this you know turbocharger that the age of celebrity and broadcast media was able to put on the careers of people. And really get them to the top of the social ladder very very quickly and compose this this upper crust of American society and it is a more racially diverse aristocracy. Oprah is somebody who is one of the most well known and beloved figures in the entirety of America sort of the you know richest people in the country. And that's why I think they've also positioned their media debut you know in the American stage with that Oprah interview you know it's one step above even the likes of Gail King who's somebody who attended Meghan Markle's baby shower. It's very much saying like we are aiming for the highest of the high the top of the top, and I think it's quite interesting that the sponsorship deals that they've managed to manage to negotiate are very very similar to the ones that Barack Obama and Michelle Obama negotiated for themselves. So I think that that's the story of what's happening and then you can get dig into the personal character driven elements of this on the one hand you've got Prince Harry who is probably deeply traumatized by the death of his mother. The phrasing of that interview preview, I imagine that there was a sense that he shares with his mom who said this to Andrew Morton when he was interviewing her for the book Diana in her own words that she was left unprotected by Clarence House when she was dealing with press intrusion both before she married Charles and you know after their separation. She was really just thrown to the wolves, she had no money put towards you know her security or there's no sense of the Clarence House press machine stepping in to deal with the kind of you know relentless and negative coverage that she got and imagine there's a sense that that's what killed her that's why the car was speeding when it into that tunnel and that's why that tragedy happened. And then this is me speculating a bit, I don't imagine it was straightforward for Meghan Markle, an American woman, a divorced woman and a mixed race woman with a black mother to enter those royal spaces and I'm not just talking about how she might have been treated by other royals. So we do know that Princess Michael of Kent's, whose father was an SS cavalry officer, wore a blackface brooch and orinoco brooch for the first time she went to meet Meghan Markle so that's how racist they are they have racist accessories. I imagine that also that intensely hierarchical ritualized social setting of the Royals and what goes on in their palaces was also something that was very difficult to deal with and again this is something which Princess Diana spoke about she absolutely hated it at Balmoral, where you had this insane a level of social ritual just for sitting down to dinner and if you spoke out of turn, you know, even the servants would make it very, very clear that they disapproved of you. And so when you add to that, the kind of cultural and racial otherness of Meghan Markle, I bet that that was fucking horrible. So why wouldn't you, if you were hot, if you were rich, if you were media savvy, go, you know what has a, let's just fuck this off, you've got this dying decaying British aristocracy. And what we could do is make this leap into the American media ties to aristocracy instead. I'll be rich, you'll be rich and also people aren't going to treat us like shit all the time. How about that? And also perhaps we won't have a media culture which is going to kill me like they did your mother. I imagine that that would be very appealing. As you really earned your title as Navarra Media's Royal Correspondent because that was actually the best analysis I've heard of this whole Ferrari so far you really cut through the crap. I have a video from Twitter that I'm going to show you in a moment, which really I think Sean Alight on the historic beef between Prince Harry and the media, which I thought was very revealing. If you are enjoying this video, make sure you subscribe to the Navarra Media channel because you get all sorts of analysis from the likes of Ash Sarkar and it's not always about the Royal Family. And her analysis of British politics and American politics is just as good as Prince Harry and Meghan, I promise you. Let's take a look at this clip, which is a compilation I saw on Twitter this weekend of Harry's historic beef with the British press. Unfortunately, every single story was complete lies, which is rarely well, which we always is, basically, which is a shame. You know, it's something I'd love to do. And now I've had the chance once and I suppose I've got quite into it. And at the end of the day, if you join the army, you expect to go on operations. I don't want to sit around at Windsor because I generally don't like England that much. And, you know, it's nice to be away from all the press and the papers and the general shot that they write. It's too risky for you to go back as a soldier. More of the fact that I think the media had said that they would never keep their mouths shut if I went and did the same job. So I'd have to do something different if I wanted to go, yes. With the media following his every moment, Harry can't hide his irritation. Harry, do you want to get stuck in? Not really. You guys are more of Afghanistan. Harry's exasperation, even loathing of the press, has shone through loud and clear. My father always says, don't read it. Everyone says, don't read it because it's always rubbish. I'm surprised how many people in the UK actually read it. I mean, everyone's, everyone's guilty for buying the newspapers, I guess. But hopefully no one actually believes what they read, which I certainly don't. But yeah, of course, of course I read it. If there's a story that's been written about me, I want to know what's being said. But all it does is just upset me and anger me that people can get away with writing stuff they do, not just about me, but everything and everybody. And that mistrust of the press, I mean, how far back does that go? Is that something that's sort of... I think it's fairly obvious how far back it goes to when I was very small. That was spicy. I rate Prince Harry a lot more after watching that. I have to say, I was always like, you know, I don't have any skin in this game. The whole game between Prince Harry and, you know, the American establishment and the British establishment, whatever. But seeing him there, say, you know, I generally don't like England that much. And the end, I mean, how powerful was it? It's obvious how far this goes back to when I was very small. And as Ash was talking about, that's because of the way the press and the Windsor family treated his mother. Ash, what did you make of that clip? Had you seen it before? Was all of that familiar to you? It was, I think for me, what was surprising is seeing it all compressed like that, is seeing how little he felt inclined to mask his disdain for the British media establishment. He's not the only royal to have been critical of the media. Prince Charles, I think, was picked up on a mic calling Nicholas Wichelt, the BBC Royal Correspondent, a dreadful man. It must feel awful to be a Royal Correspondent to dedicate your entire career to suck in establishment boot just to get kicked in the face like that, you know, in a drive by. My God. But I think that it was when it's put together in that way, you can see this consistent threat of this, how my mother was treated. And then it makes a kind of sense of I can see the woman who I've married, who I love, who I've chosen to have children with being treated in a way that I think was of as being very similar. I think that it's something that all of us can imagine and empathise with if not from a position of direct experience. And I also think this is, again, me speculating, but I've ranted to you before about how against boarding schools I am, right? I just think they're fucked up. I just think it's completely fucked up to send your kid to a place where they're going to be bullied and potentially abused. When that happens, because you've taken kids into the care system, people generally go, you know what? That's a suboptimal way to raise children. When the ruling class do it with their kids because they send them to boarding school, it's like, ah, yes, they're prioritising their education. But I do think that it is really traumatic. You add to that the fact that, you know, your mother who was famously unusually warm with her children and unusually loving has died in this horrible public way. And then you've got this completely fucked up family dynamic of, you know, strange, cold, emotionally stunted and warped people around you all the time. And then you managed to fall in love. You managed to fall in love with this beautiful woman who's successful in her own right. And you can feel the walls closing in and these horrible, distorting, you know, the effects of media coverage on her mental health and your mental health. And you add to that the family context. Obviously, you'd be chewing your own arm off to get out of there. You know, this is why I think that the monarchy ought to be abolished is really for their own good. I think it a completely fucked up way to have a family life and you need to get rid of it, save them from themselves. Time bucking and back palace until weather spoons will be happier. They'll be happier.