King Charles using Harry and Meghan controversy to divert attention

• Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s participation at his coronation.
• Laing argued that coverage should focus instead on the existential questions facing the monarchy.
• The divide between the fabulously wealthy and the rest of us.

King Charles has been charged of obscuring the ‘existential questions’ surrounding the historic occasion by using the uncertainty around Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s participation at his coronation.

Despite his otherwise uneventful accession to the British throne, commentator Sarah Laing noted in a piece for The Toronto Star that King Charles’ popularity has suffered significantly. She also suggested that the constant talk of Harry and Meghan may be an attempt to hide his unpopularity before the coronation.

Laing questioned: “Is all of this breathless drama over whether Meghan and Harry will be at the coronation simply a convenient smokescreen, a sideshow at the Sussexes’ expense?”

“Without the distraction, after all, coverage might focus instead on the existential questions currently facing the monarchy, which an event like the coronation, in all its ancient pomp and archaic tradition, just highlights,” she explained.

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