Henry of England attempts to mend fences with the royal family (after losing a multi-million-dollar contract)
This week it has also been learned that, due to the machismo of the British aristocracy, neither he nor his brother William will be able to inherit the house where their mother, Diana of Wales, is buried.
Barcelona"Actions speak louder than words," Prince Henry of England must have thought, trying to win back the affection of his family, which he worked so hard to lose some time ago. Perhaps now that things are going badly for him—because financially he's in a much worse situation than he was—he's decided that it wasn't enough to use less aggressive language when addressing the media and that some gesture was needed to start making them feel a little less angry at him from the palace, under whose shelter he now seems to want to run again because it's made him look strange without having to attend to any institutional obligations.
When it was learned last week that Netflix had no intention of renewing the multi-million dollar contract which he had signed five years ago with him and his wife, Meghan Markle, we already anticipated in this humble Sunday column that the approach to the palace would end up happening more quickly. What we hadn't anticipated was that the lowering of trousers would be so automatic. Only a week after it became known that Sussex's results on Netflix had been so lush like those of Albert Rivera in the law firm that hired him after sinking Ciutadans, the Daily Mail has published that Enric – who must have known for a long time that Netflix would start filming – has already proposed to Buckingham that they share the diaries of all the members of the royal family with him and Meghan Markle – and vice versa – so as not to counter-schedule each other when they hold public events.
This, which seems like a small move, carries a significant weight and is very useful for removing from the public eye the battlefield where they stabbed each other in the back. In other words, agreeing on agendas helps them guarantee a certain media peace and allow them to continue negotiating any future agreement that may occur slowly and away from the spotlight, which always hinders negotiations, regardless of the scope. To fully assess Enric's offer, it must be taken into account that counter-programming Buckingham was a way of doing significant damage to the Crown, because it reduced its screen time when he held events and, on top of that, he could use the media that came to criticize his relatives.
The first step on a long road?
Therefore, the fact of putting his agenda in the palace service - sharing the agendas is not done on equal terms: no one overlooks that there will be palace events that will be postponed so that he has planned to attend a photocall...– could be seen by King Charles III as an act of redemption—or surrender—by his young son, which could pave the way for a personal/family trip in the near future, with which Henry could begin to try to restore his image to the United Kingdom. Indirectly, it would also have a positive impact on the royal family because, by showing compassion toward its most unruly member, it would appear more human, a quality that has often been lacking.
Enough time has passed since 2020 to ensure that managing Enrique and Meghan's—or at least Enrique's—relationship with the rest of the Windsors isn't politically penalized. It's more or less what the Spanish monarchy did to the general public with King Juan Carlos, whom they first made out to be punished and sent to Abu Dhabi—when in reality, it was a fiscal and media life insurance policy for everyone—and now everyone is managing his visits to Spain very normally, despite our resume.
All that said, it's obvious to everyone that if he hadn't lost the $100 million Netflix paid him to create content, this clear desire to reconcile with someone who has been criticizing him for five years on television programs and in interviews of all kinds wouldn't be a possibility right now. It's worth noting that, in addition to the Netflix contract—the cancellation of which hasn't yet been officially announced, but the entire specialized press is taking it for granted—he also lost his podcast contract with Spotify and, in addition, lost his legal battle with the British government to continue paying for his police protection with public funds when he visited the Kingdom. In fact, not only did he fail to obtain the latter, but through appeals, he was eventually ordered to pay the court costs: 1.5 million pounds.
What family affection has failed to achieve has been brought about by economic failure. A demonstration of the lack of talent of one of its most prominent members to live in the real world that will ultimately benefit the monarchy, because those who remain in it will appear kind by welcoming the stray And people will think they deserve to be loved because they would have done the same thing in their own homes. What people may not think is that what the Windsors are really doing is protecting Henry so that he doesn't have to go out and earn a living by criticizing them by saying things even more crude than he's said so far: it's the only job that has been clear over the last five years that he knows how to do properly.
Diana's Grave
And, since we're talking about the misfortunes Of the most famous siblings in the United Kingdom, this week the British press reported that neither William nor Harry will inherit the house where Lady Di is buried. The ill-fated Princess of the People rests on the Althorp estate, in the county of Northamptonshire, halfway between London and Birmingham, which has belonged to her family for more than 500 years. The mansion and the land containing the princess's remains—left in an artificial lake that was built as a tomb after her death—no longer passed into Lady Di's hands and will not pass to her children either, despite the fact that both she and they are the most famous and richest members of the family.
According to the rule of male primogeniture applied in the English nobility, the family's historic estates and the noble title that gives them their name—the Earldom of Spencer—can only pass to men. This already meant that neither Lady Di nor either of her two sisters could retain that property. No exception was made for the one destined to be Queen of the British, and it seems that no exception will be made for her descendants. In fact, the current Earl of Spencer—uncle to William and Henry—has six descendants, and the first male is the fourth oldest, because he has three older sisters. For him, if the law does not change, it will be the tomb of the most beloved princess in the United Kingdom.