{"id":2520010,"date":"2026-07-28T05:23:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2520010"},"modified":"2026-07-28T05:23:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:23:41","slug":"harry-and-meghan-had-a-reunion-with-king-charles-and-the-real-villain-was-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/harry-and-meghan-had-a-reunion-with-king-charles-and-the-real-villain-was-clear\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry and Meghan had a reunion with King Charles\u2014and the real villain was clear."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week, a grandfather received a visit from his grandchildren who live overseas. Such things happen all over the world, every single day, with no fanfare whatsoever. If those people are members of Britain\u2019s royal family, however, the fanfare cannot be dispensed with. We the public must, apparently, know about the event, pore over its every smallest detail and decide, at the end of it, who came out looking best. And so it was when Harry and Meghan made their first visit in four years as a family, their children Archie and Lilibet in tow, to see King Charles.<\/p>\n

Such is the life that Harry and Meghan have been trying to avoid since they moved out of the U.K. and renounced royal duties in 2020. Have they stayed out of the spotlight altogether? Far from it. If you\u2019ve had the misfortune of watching With Love, Meghan<\/em>, you may have come away with more knowledge about the potential uses of edible flowers than anybody needs, and a bad taste in your mouth to boot. It would be difficult to argue that producing endless Netflix documentaries and sitting for tell-all interviews are the actions of people who want to be left alone.<\/p>\n

But I feel conflicted about Harry and Meghan because, on the one hand, yes, their TV shows are not very good, and they seem personally sort of blah, and I would happily not hear so much about them and what they\u2019re up to in California. But on the other, they are 100\u00a0percent correct in their view that the British media are a bunch of parasitic monsters when it comes to their coverage of the royals. Anyone in their right mind would cross an ocean to get away from it. I am, however, adding my voice to the choir here\u2014and I appreciate the irony, so bear with me\u2014in order to paint a picture of precisely how doggedly invasive the British press is when it comes to the royal family.<\/p>\n

This visit by Harry and Meghan was a private event. It happened at Highgrove House, a sort of royal family satellite property outside London, and there were no photos released or any details given about what the family did together or spoke about during the visit. Who knows, and frankly, who cares.<\/p>\n