The Scapegoating of Meghan and Harry

Why it's dangerous to disrupt a myth.

As I've observed the reaction to Prince Harry’s new book and the Netflix special he did with his wife, Meghan Markle, I’ve been amazed that I viewed the same series and read the same book that so many people—including journalists—have described as a whiny, entitled, cruel betrayal of a family deserving better treatment. Meghan and Harry, we are told, are angling to have the “last word” in a family battle that should have been settled behind closed doors.

It seems to me that they would like to have “a word.” Who could blame them?

Until they began speaking out and telling their side of the story, the narrative had been one hundred percent shaped by the royal family’s spin doctors and the ethically challenged British tabloids that treat hunting royals as sport, even after their psychotic stalking contributed to the death of Harry’s mother, Diana.

Yet there is a disturbing theme that runs through a lot of the criticisms of Harry and Meghan. The problem is not that members of the royal fam…