Meghan Markle: Finishing the Work of the Founding Fathers.
Yes, I watched.
I’m not proud of myself but I did. Hey, I have a TV in my kitchen and I was up to my elbows in cookie dough all weekend. Oh, and there was only one college football game on, leaving lots of empty hours.
I made it through the first three episodes of the new Netflix documentary “Harry and Meghan.” Next three will be released Thursday.
The early reviews of the series were scorching. I watched anyway.
Get a load of Meghan McCain’s blistering assessment in The Daily Mail, under the endless headline, “The Megaflix hit-job Is a three-hour temper tantrum of two entitled brats boiling with jealousy, with one simple, deadly message: If they can't wear the crowns, no one can!”
There is ample commentary condemning the modern United Kingdom as the 'British Empire 2.0' as if there has been no progress since the abolition of the slave trade. There is no rational historical perspective. No, the monarchy is just as bad as it was 250 years ago.
It's all so biased and unfair and destructive, but why?
Well, take it from someone who's seen the dirty political game up close – Harry and Meghan's real agenda is revenge.
This all seems driven by Harry and Meghan's palatable anger and jealousy against the Royal family and William and Kate in particular. To put it succinctly, Harry and Meghan were just not able to cut it as royals and now they're lashing out at anyone who can.
It's the tantrum of two entitled brats.
Whoa there, Ms. McCain. You’ve got it all wrong.
OK, Harry and Meghan ARE bent on revenge and they’re definitely entitled brats, I’ll give you that. (For example, I love the part where Meghan casually recalls Prince Harry asking her to rendezvous with him in Botswana early in their relationship and she impulsively agreed and was on a jet that weekend. Most of us would have to budget and plan for at least a year to swing that sort of trip, but not these two jet-setters.)
Still, the revenge they seek is sweet.
This is really the story of an All-American girl and her disgruntled husband who is steadily dropping down the royal line of succession with each child his older brother spawns. How infuriating must THAT be? To be in line behind a pack of toddlers?
Ms. Markle is simply trying to finish what the Founding Fathers started and failed to do: Bring the British monarchy crashing down.
Shoot, when you think about it, she’s a modern-day Betsy Ross.
So far, in the first three episodes, “H” and “M” as they playfully call each other, make the case that the British Empire was run on the blood sweat and tears of slavery and that not much has changed in the modern commonwealth.
It’s still racist. And Harry’s closest relatives are practically Klan members. (One wore a little blackface brooch to dinner with Meghan, a subtle sign that H’s beloved ought to be in the scullery, not dining with the royals.)
Wallis Simpson
Meghan, who’s father is white and mother is black, claims that she never was treated as a black woman until she went to Britain.
Imagine that! The left is constantly saying America is racist and Meghan is saying quite the opposite. We’re egalitarian and the land of the hereditary monarchy isn’t.
This makes Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, an American patriot. In fact, she may be the greatest patriot since Wallis Simpson married King Edward VIII, who abdicated to be with the American divorcee.
Simpson helped create a constitutional crisis in Britain, while Markle may bring the whole palace down.
Pass the popcorn. Thursday’s coming.
