‘Karma is coming’ for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

Look, we've got to start with Meghan and Harry. Of course, they went on this trip to the UK. It was a bit of, will they, won't they? Harry goes by himself and then suddenly Meghan Markle with the kids in they trot as well. But there have been some reports that the family reunion that they had with the King and the Queen may have not gone as planned for Meghan. There are some suggestions that it probably wasn't warm and fuzzy. I can't imagine why, Lorraine, but what's your take on this reunion? You know, the reporting, Danika, is coming so fast and so many conflicting narratives. And most interestingly, and we've been talking about this on The Nerve all this week, the briefings from Harry's camp are differing from the briefings from Meghan's camp. This is significant because when you see a high profile married couple who are working with stakes this high, the new question is, does Harry really have a way back in? Meghan was, it was briefed that Meghan would be joining Harry last week in the UK for the entire week with the children. In fact, she only showed up at the very end of the week, no photos taken of Meghan, which nullifies her claims, her claims, Harry's claims that they can't possibly return to the United Kingdom without royal security because the press won't leave them alone. And the reporting now is out of People Magazine, which is her preferred outlet, historically very friendly to her, so they clearly have a good relationship, that Meghan has always, always let Harry take the lead with his family. She's supportive of him having a good relationship with his family. Harry's camp, meanwhile, my colleague at the Daily Mail, Alison Boshoff, is reporting that a source who is not quite sympathetic to the Sussexes, listen to this phrasing, it's fascinating. I quote, when Harry was madly in love with Meghan, he was happy to let her take the lead, was. Now, that same source said, the veil has been lifted. Wow, okay, so in the past tense, was, which makes me wonder then, just to your point, because there's two different narratives coming out of either camp, and there have been suggestions that perhaps the marriage is a little bit rocky at the moment. They don't, you know, every business venture that they have gone into has been an absolute diabolical disaster. I just wonder then, what does that say, maybe about the state of their marriage at the moment? Well, I think you also have, by you, I mean the collective you, all of us, have to look at their marriage as what it also is. As you just put it, it's a brand. It's a collective brand. The only successful, truly successful outings they have had, and they're a media brand now as well, right, so they cannot plead privacy when you publish a best-selling memoir in which you divulge all manner of your family's intimate secrets. Those, the gloves are off when you sit for a Netflix documentary in which you depict yourself as the most hounded couple of the modern age, and in which Meghan mocked the late queen with that deep mocking curtsy and compared the British royal family to the American theme park franchise known as Medieval Times. Yeah. You know, karma is coming around for you, and I think it's coming around for both of them,