Why I side with Harry

 On the eve of his book’s release, my preorder is in and I can wait to dive into Harry’s words.

I am obsessed with the Harry-Meagan story. I have at times used their first names as if talking  about old friends.

Actually, my obsession began with the royals the day Diana married Charles. I was doing my Saturday volunteer duty (candy striper back in the day) at the hospital with Sister Mary Louisa. A very tiny, old, petite, scary nun and as we were bagging surgical supplies she went off on a tangent about what the heck was that old man doing marrying such a young girl. “I give it ten years. I heard he has a tart on the side”

What? Who were these people she spoke of. Plus, I wasn’t familiar with what a tart was. I went home, spoke to my Nana and she immediately got me a national enquirer (reading choice of our family then)

I have followed ever since. A real life soap opera. So when things started with Harry a few years back, I called it. He’s gonna do what his mother couldn’t and break away.

I watched the Netflix Documentary and unlike everyone else I know, I loved it.

What’s the deal with the Meghan hate? Immediately, it’s like ‘blame the woman’. When we all know from the get go, Harry was the wild child. We all remember his Vegas Vacation and the nude snaps that came out.

Meghan didn’t grow up rich. She grew up with very little and I can totally understand where her thinking was skewed on how it was going to be. But Harry knew. Like his father, he didn’t prepare her. Because she was a B list celebrity didn’t mean she knew how to handle things. And though I love Harry, I bet he can be a real dick.

Okay all that aside, we saw what happened with Princess Di. Relentlessly hounded by the media, cheated on by her husband, made to look foolish in public. We all heard her side of the story, and I remember people judging her, not believing her. Harry and Meghan say pretty much the same thing, and people are reacting the same way. This isn’t the first or even second time, a royal stepped away and said these things. We all remember Edward.

Plus, hey, Tyler Perry is standing up for them and he is the stand up guy.

I heard someone today say, “He’s turning on his family.” Um, isn’t Meghan and the two kids his family too?

Harry never wanted to walk the normal royal walk. When he served his country he did so unlike any other royal, he led by example and was out there with his men and women. Harry is not stuffy, well, not like the others. He’s like Philip who refused to be tamed.

Maybe I’ll have a different feeling when I read the book, who knows. But I do know this and this is the way I see it. Dick or not, he walked away because he saw things unfolding the exact same way they did with his mother, and her final result is not the history he wanted to see repeated.

I wonder what Sister Mary Louisa would say.