The Duke of Sussex is aiming for a new life across the pond with Meghan Markle after giving up his royal duties. But columnist Daniela Elser said there’s “one thing” Harry “just won’t do — or maybe can’t do,” which is to “keep going.”
The royal commentator highlighted his legal action against the Home Office over a decision not to allow him to pay for police protection for his family while in the UK, while his all-encompassing memoir is also due out later this year.
Elser wrote for the New Zealand Herald: “Despite Harry and Meghan building a new life in California, he still seems unable to let go of the pain and tribulations of the past.
“Despite the fact that he has two adorable little ones, hundreds of millions of dollars will come in, according to the deals the Sussexes signed in 2020, a hulking mansion (the first property he ever owned independently) and all the free time for cycling . . man would like, he still seems to intend to litigate (literally and figuratively) the slings and arrows of his past life.”
The royal commentator urged the Duke to “choose to look ahead and not look back forever”.
She said: “Harry is currently forging a life of his own making, a life built on his hopes and aspirations and raising his family with Meghan away from the fuss and the rules of royalty and he has given up so much to have the freedom to do all this.
“Choose happiness. Choose joy. Choose to look ahead and not forever back.”
Ms Elser’s comments come after the latest hearing at the High Court in London last Thursday.
The Duke is challenging the February 2020 decision of the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalties and Public Figures (Ravec) after being told he would no longer receive “the same degree” of personal protection when visiting Britain.
A representative of the Duke previously said he wants to get his children out of the US but that they “cannot return to his house” because it is too dangerous.
Harry and Meghan lost their taxpayer funded police protection in the UK after Megxit.
The couple retired from royal duties in March 2020 for a new life of personal and financial freedom in America.
They now live in Montecito with their two children Archie, three, and Lilibet, one.
Harry and Meghan returned to Britain with Archie and Lili for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee for the first time since Megxit.
They made their first public appearance alongside the Windsors in two years of Thanksgiving service at St Paul’s Cathedral.
However, they kept a low profile over the holiday weekend and were absent from many of the events.
It comes after they made a series of bombshell claims about the monarchy in their Oprah Winfrey interview in March 2021.
And the royals are probably bracing for Harry’s memoir, which will be published later this year.
The Duke previously said he wrote the book “not as the prince I was born, but as the man I have become”.