The answer is obvious, though it is both painful and embarrassing to admit: It is a willingness to be consumed. Sometimes, as when I watched the 12-year-old Prince Harry walk behind the coffin of his mother, Princess Diana, I think monarchy is less a national enchantment, or hoax, than a national sickness. And if Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, know what it is, then they are disenchanted. The list is called “Finding Freedom,” the new biography of the couple by Carolyn Durand and Omid Scobie, published this week. It is a book Harry and Meghan obviously endorse — and, I suspect, may have written passages of.

Source: New York Times August 15, 2020 15:45 UTC