Prince Harry’s return to his homeland has been marred with alot of chatter, opinions and warnings by many experts who feel he is walking a tightrope he cant afford to mess up.
One such expert is Deputy Royal Editor Rebecca Russell and she shared her two cents in a piece for the Daily Express.
In it, the conversation was simple and straight forward. She began by drawing some parallels from history and started by saying, “given that the last six years have played out like a plot of a bestselling novel, the literary parallels are too rich to ignore. Like Prince Hal in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, we have a man who is seeking a return to a life of royal connections he once escaped – a rebel attempting to set aside the past in favour of reconciliation.”
But now that the Duke has returned to his motherland, she feels the “real test” Harry faces has just begun and “now is not whether he sees an upturn in his popularity or whether he gets the family reunion he pines for,” but instead “whether he can finally master the art of vanishing into the background.”
The issue that stands between Harry and reconciliation in her mind is simple—hope for a return to royal duties. She feels, “let’s be clear: there is no return to royal life – not in the half-in, half-out way he and Meghan once asked for – he is here to be private and focus on the charities he loves. He is here to give his children a connection to the institution he and Meghan left – and, hopefully, a link to the family members left behind.”
Hence, “if this is to be his new chapter,” she warns, “it’ll be a refreshing and welcome change. But if it isn’t, and the old ways of one-upmanship and stealing the limelight resurrect themselves, well, there truly will be no way back.”
Before concluding she also returned to her same analogy and added, “so, like Prince Hal, let’s hope Harry returns transformed, genuinely willing to put the past in the past. Or, like Dickens’ miser Scrooge, will atonement be the story of the day when Harry realises that hanging onto bitterness and the ghosts of the past serves no one.”
