Megxit turns out to be a phenomenon that proves its own impossibility. rkgar writes
Photo: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images To judge by all the hype surrounding Harry and Meghan’s retreat from royal duties — the fine parsing of their HRH titles, the coverage of Meg driving her own car or picking up a friend from the airport — you could easily imagine Megxit a cataclysm on par with, well, Brexit. But weirdly, Megxit turns out to be a phenomenon that proves its own impossibility. What I mean is, in the end, Megxit has done nothing but re-princessify its heroine.
But as we all know, Meghan did not get her happily ever after. Once the storybook wedding was over, and after a few thousand pics of her in boat-necked pastels and fascinators, the narrative changed. The tabloids and even some palace insiders turned on the princess. She was harassed, stalked, criticized, her parenting skills impugned, her every move dissected — often with obvious racism.
When real-life women enter this ancient story line, when they are subsumed into what Peggy Orenstein calls the “princess industrial complex” — the pop-cultural universe devoted to marketing princess-hood with merchandise, TV shows, magazine stories, films, etc. — they have nowhere to go afterward. There’s no princess-y future available to them.
Helping it all along, Meghan has been portrayed as a damsel in distress, tearing up in interviews and describing herself as “vulnerable” and “not okay.” Comparisons to Princess Diana are invoked — ostensibly as cautionary tales but also to polish and enhance Meghan’s princess-y allure, so useful in selling newspapers and magazines.
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