Christmas Escape for Harry and Meghan: they won't spend it with the queen

Christmas on the run for Harry and Meghan: specifically, as far away as possible from the rest of the royal family. A surprise decision that upset the plans at Palazzo and left Elisabetta's entourage more than puzzled: especially as the sovereign only discovered it yesterday afternoon, when Harry telephoned her personally to tell her the news. Instead of the Sandringham castle, as usual, the Dukes of Sussex will spend the holidays with her mother, Doria. No word yet where: it could be in the Windsor "cottage" where they live, but maybe even in Los Angeles or Africa. What is certain is that for Harry it is a «first»: he had never missed a Christmas with the Queen, except for the year he was on duty in Afghanistan. A tear that will only rekindle the controversies that have accompanied Harry and Meghan in recent months. Because it is true that the official spokesmen have remembered that in the past even William and Kate had spent some Christmas apart: but this time is different, precisely because the dukes of Cambridge will instead be at the queen's side. As if to point out the distance that has developed between the two brothers. It was Harry himself, in a recent interview, who revealed the "fracture" with William, as well as his psychological suffering from the attacks on his wife.

The sabbatical period

Sussex seems to have reached the point of breaking with public opinion and the press: so much so that they launched a series of lawsuits against the main British tabloids, guilty, in their opinion, of persecuting Meghan as happened with Diana. The intolerance for the scrutiny they are subjected to is such that starting next week Harry and Meghan will take a six-week long sabbatical, during which they will pause all official commitments. And it is likely that they will spend part of this period abroad. All decisions, crowned by a "separate" Christmas, which increasingly give the impression that Sussex are now on an eccentric trajectory with respect to the rest of the royal family: unable to reconcile the duties of their public role with the anxieties of celebrities that afflict them. It is an insidious road, the outcome of which can bring to mind the destiny of Edward and Wallis Simpson, who ended up in "worldly exile" in Paris between festivals and little gifts.