Everything has a price

Well this week there's been a lot of things going on, some of which are continuing  such as the uncoupling of Harry, Prince of Wales  and Meghan Markle from the Royal family of which I will say few words.

The first is when and if you find something is placing too big a strain on you that you can no longer cope with it, something I can easily understand in Harry's instance, then you do need to bear in mind that in leaving it there are costs involved not just the financial but the emotional.

I've been there. I had to give up a career because what was going on with it could not be properly resolved and I was a emotional wreak breaking down frequently that was cutting into other things I was doing.
Thing is, in doing that I had to accept that 'game' was over, done with, and move on accepting I'd no longer be in those circles, that I could never be back with them and any long term dreams involving that line of work were over with.
It hurt.

Cutting out role duties means those roles as the Queen's representative just go because they whatever they had to offer depended upon that patronage and if fulfilling that with all the media attention that comes with is "too much" or brings back bad memories you struggle to shake off then that's a cost you have to accept.

If you had merely wanted a alteration to take account a period of illness or wanting to spend the first few years more with your child then that's a different thing and could be done but that wasn't in as far as we've been told what they wanted.

There bigger thing which remains unresolved is security.
Harry is a target not just for being formerly a HRH but for being in the military but normally when you in effect leave the 'working royals' then having that paid for goes and it is clear Canadians who weren't asked if they wanted any kind of Royals living there don't see why they should pay for it plus if they are not in the UK, you can't expect much enthusiasm for the UK public paying around Three to Six million a year for it.

This is complicated further still by the idea of earning money commercially so they would be independent financially as apart from restrictions around what they could endorse for monies, the very act of re-raises the interest that lead to the pressure they were struggling with.
 And Canadian law is less useful on Privacy than the UK's.

To live they'd need over 6 million a year saying as of yesterday they were prepared to pay for that security which is a long way removed from the ordinary where perhaps Harry might get a paid post in the Military and and Meghan did a bit of acting or office work as 'regular joes' living in modest accommodation with non of the Royal or Celebratory Bubble going on bar the odd charity patronage perhaps.

That's where I get back to what I said at the start. If you find something like that something you have to leave, then there's a cost you have to be prepared to accept and I'm not sure they've got this really sorted out.

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