Well, that is a plot twist - Prince Andrew is giving up titles - announced by the Palace. Dude is willing enough to face the future without that after his name. Say what you will but he is being honorable about this (we may not ever know the details of what it took to get it). Is there something else to come out we don't know about (yet) or is it just it has taken this long to drag out negotiations between the various parties to ink a deal? Time will tell. For him, I wonder how it will play out about Royal Lodge. A place he has been totally unwilling to leave. Or how it will play out for the future of his daughters. Sarah - let's not go there. It is a real twist already. We don't gloat here. BUT what about how it could impact the duo? Well, well, well. Takes the whole racist claim off the table (and into the nearest deep ocean never to be taken seriously again by most who might have bought it previously). Expect it ...
So I read Richard Eden's article in the DM about how recent events from the couple are actually part of a calculated plan to change how the family views them and ... how the UK views them ... and then they can come back yadda yadda and * will "... ‘Meghan will return to Britain before the year is out,’ the friend tells me, adding jokingly that she will be ‘bearing humble pie’. It remains to be seen whether ‘bearing humble pie’ - and eating it, presumably - is sufficient to placate the Royal Family or the British people.... ". He ends with a comment about how he would not accept this unless she apologizes to the various BRF for hurting them. Ok. He also mentions a specific person (1, count it one) Yvette Cooper, who is new to the job as Foreign Secretary who specifically is open to him, presumable * as well, being more active in the British spheres. What more active might or might not be is not defined. What we don't know: Is how well she knows him and fo...