If Harry and Meghan were hoping to change the royal family, they’ll be disappointed | Stephen Bates

Monarchists already know of their woes while republicans will merely have their views confirmed. And the soap opera will go on

So this is what snowbound, strike-hit Britain needed on a Thursday morning: a rich and entitled couple living in agreeable circumstances in California bemoaning their treatment by the media, the royal family, courtiers, a woman in the crowd in Liverpool, Meghan's father and even the Queen by implication. Assailed by them" and they".

Yes, it's the Harry'n'Meghan show on Netflix again, another two and a half hours in which the Duke and Duchess of Sussex back resentfully into the limelight to reveal once more their truth, complete with home movies of their son Archie and copious intimate photographs showing them intruding on their own privacy.

Stephen Bates is the Guardian's former royal correspondent. His latest book is The Shortest History of The Crown (the institution rather than the series)

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