M0nica
Not having watched the wedding I have no idea whether she smiled in church or not, surely all brides smile in church.
I am just saddened to see something that seemed to promise so much for a young man, who seemed open and charming despite many difficulties in life and had at last found love and stability with an attractive woman who seemed to be everything anybody ever wanted for him, vivacious, lively and with her mixed background made the royal family truly representative of so many families in Britain - and then within such a short period to see them suddenly withdraw from life and go abroad because they wanted a private life without the trappings of royalty.
If that was what they had done, withdrawn into a private life abroad most of us would have regretted it but not have been particularly bothered.
It is their exploitation of this 'private life' for money that has had most of us curling our lips with distaste and I think it is clear that Prince Harry, lovely and charming man that he always appeared has neither the brain power, experience or personality to drive a campaign like this.
I admire The Duchess of Sussex for her intelligence and commercial savvy. I just do not like the way she is using it and the way she is prepared with careless disregard to damage other peoples lives (those of her husband's family) to achieve it.
MOnica sums it all up well.
I honestly don’t think either Harry or Meghan really gave enough thought to how their escape from royal life would actually be funded. The security bill for starters. I truly think that they somehow naively believed that issues like this would continue to be funded by either the taxpayer or PC.
The Queen, Charles and William are looking to their own futures, well, not so much the Queen, and they are savvy enough to know Joe Public will only go so far in keeping the Monarchy.