The Sussex have been silent for a few days and everyone is wondering why. According to the most knowledgeable royal observers, Harry and Meghan, especially Meghan, are disposing of the disappointment of not having been invited to the 60th birthday of former President Barack Obama, to feel they are a great friend. As the duchesses do in these cases, Meghan also parried the blow by saying that previous engagements would have prevented her from being present: after all, on the same day, her birthday also fell.
Of course, at the Obamas, at Martha’s Vineyard, there were really everyone: George Clooney, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, John Legend, Chrissy Teigen and Meghan’s great friend, Gayle King. Two more people, on a list of hundreds of guests, would certainly have made no difference: why then the Sussexes weren’t there? According to Angela Levin, biographer of Prince Harry, the Obamas didn’t like the couple’s latest releases at all, starting with the famous interview with Oprah Winfrey. If a war is underway with the rest of the Royal Family, the former president and his wife know which side they must be on: with the Queen, with Charles and with William, who represent the institution, and certainly not with two weepy fugitives. who speak ill of their families to continue to be famous.
The thing that angered the Obamas the most was seeing Harry attack his father and grandmother as he has done in recent months. They certainly wouldn’t want their daughters, Sasha and Malia, to reveal on TV what they saw and heard in the White House, including the differences between the parents, which certainly must have been there on numerous occasions. Certain things, at certain levels, must remain in the family and breaking this rule is a sign of great immaturity.
This explains the diplomatic coldness with which Michelle Obama commented on the Sussex’s latest interventions: “When I think about what they are going through – she said -, I think about the importance of family and I only pray that there is forgiveness and that there is clarity. , love and determination at some point in time. Because there is nothing more important than the family ».
But while waiting for there to be clarity, forgiveness and love, no more invitations. Meghan really cared about it, Angela Levin said, she wanted to be the special guest at the party, and was very disappointed with the exclusion. He promptly responded by inviting the Clintons, but not the Obamas, to join his 40×40 initiative, to dedicate 40 minutes of their time to others, launched on his 40th birthday. Obama was a little annoyed not by the lack of involvement, but because the idea seemed to him to be copied from a similar initiative, called 60×60.
The end of the support of the Obamas is a severe blow to the Sussex, who are struggling more and more to make themselves visible and every time they do they are inundated with criticism. Meghan’s latest video (40×40) produced thousands of lines of negative comments in the English newspapers, for the ostentatious luxury of the Montecito villa, the ton sur ton dress with the color of the Duchess’s desk, the veiled grip around Queen Elizabeth, and especially with Harry called to play the court jester, like a trained dog, from the window overlooking the garden. Levin said the Obamas “have seen through Meghan” and have finally figured out what she is made of.