as ITV reporter tom bradby keep it prince harry – what was the most frankly painful royal interview since Diana talks to Martin Bashir There’s a certain Shakespearean quality to the tragedy of—about having three people at her wedding “Excessive” Son.
His name itself, Henry V-style coined from his formal title of Henry of Wales, carries an ancient air, as such, out in helmand province, their commanding officer said, “Shout ‘Harry, God for England and St George!'” before the helicopter dogs of war opened up on the Taliban. This sort of thing.
Flaws in his personality, some (no doubt) brought on by what he calls “post traumatic stress injury” After the death of his mother, are quite real. that was a tragedy Diana yourself. in the amazing words of your brother charlesEarl Spencer, in his eulogy at Westminster Abbey“all of irony about dianaPerhaps the greatest of all was this – a girl named after the ancient goddess of the hunt was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age.
All that, though essential to the tragedy, is prologue. Harry jokes to Bradby that he didn’t know much Shakespeare, but his father did – and you have to wonder if Charles Some of the lire-like quality has been reported What has befallen him and his still young reign. to like King LearBased on an elderly mythical king of Britain and his three daughters, Goneril, Regan, and the pure Cordelia, Charles demands from his descendants their love, loyalty, and respect.
Like real life, there was disappointment in the drama too. At the funeral of Prince Philip – lay leg, man of life and limb to Elizabeth (another bit of romantic royal whimsy) – a 72-year-old Charles stood between his two sons, much taller and more vigorous than he, Seen above “Flushed Faces” and begged him not to “make my last years miserable”. Harry has paid little attention to her. As Lear remarks, “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth, to be an ungrateful child!”
We know all too well what was to happen next. There is an analogy to the modern story, however, in the way a playwright can engineer the structure of a play. Like this Charles’s betrayal of his mother and the boys have been followed in their earlier years by Harry’s mutual betrayal against Charles and William – and ultimately from William’s betrayal of Charles and Camilla against Diana’s memory (now reborn as meghan markleAt least in Harry’s tortured imagination).
So there’s a little old Shakespearean nemesis at work. Or payback, as we might say today.
Charles’ own example of what some would call “selfishness” against his first wife The counterattack has finally come upon him now that his sons are strong enough, and one of them determined enough to secure what Harry calls “accountability” – a polite term for revenge. Charles well considers himself “a more sinful man than to have sinned” in Shakespeare’s famous formulation; But, like Lear, we know that our king has a bit of a temper. Indeed, that quickness to turn to violence of word (Harry) and deed (William) seems to be another Shakespearean Lear Subject in the non-modern ways of Windsor. Betrayal breeds betrayal.
In the Tudor world, their rivalry would have been settled by force of arms. To use his Shakespearean titles, Harry, Duke of Sussex, styles himself as his father, formerly the Duke of Cornwall (who, oddly enough, is betrothed to by Regan’s husband). Lear) and his brother, the Duke of Cambridge. As one wag on Twitter suggested: Perhaps Harry should have gathered an army in Sussex and prepared to do battle with his brother, leading his forces from Cambridge and its edge, the A406 North on the edge of the circular.
There is much sadness and bitterness in the story following the fall of the House of Windsor. death of queen And his wife, This was not expected, but even from a relatively short distance End of Elizabeth II’s reign Now we can see how important she was to the integrity of the institution of monarchy, and It has decreased so much.
The crown is not going to fall, but there is mortality to be reported about, as well as divisiveness and culture wars. “Love grows cold, friendship breaks, brothers separate; rebellion in the cities; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; And the bond broke ‘two sons and father.’