You're listening to I'm Ama mea podcast. You're not meant to be prescriptive or have opinions when you're a royal. Is that true?
It is true, although I think it's shifting because what's really interesting to me here, right, is that Meghan and Harry are positioning themselves as the kind of royal celebrity hybrids that they want to be. So Harry's writing opinion pieces for The New Statesman and he's going to the Ukraine and whatever. And they're also monetizing. So Megan is giving speeches at the World Health Organization, but she's also
selling her clothes and she's also got a Jam line. Now, this again is classic modern diversification, which is, you know, we've got to have fingers in lots of pies. It used to be, and certainly for royals, you're either this or you're that. Choose and they're like, we will not choose. But it's very interesting because her critics, who are trying to find bad things to say about it, are saying, well, you can't be that and a jam saleswoman, And I kind of argue that. In twenty twenty six.
She ca yeah, I agree. The other criticism I've heard which makes me roll my eyes is the day before this trip, and the day before she gave this speech, she posted a photo to her own Instagram of her It was a mirror selfie and in front of her was a little about her daughter with the back to the camera so you couldn't see her face, and the caption was Mama's little helper, and it was in her glamorous closet with all and whatever, like she's a celebrity
and she's rich, like, let her have it. But the idea that it's somehow hypocritical to post pictures of your children on your own social media and she's only ever done that, not identifying their faces in various ways, as a lot of people choose to somehow say that is hypocritical. When she's criticizing the social media companies for allowing kids that are too young and to be using them and to be exposed to awful messages. I don't think that's hypocritical.
I think that And the same way that they're like they wanted to leave the royal family, and people say, well, if they wanted a private life, why are they now on Instagram and giving speeches what they wanted was control, and when you post a picture of your child on your own social media you have full control over what image, what angle, how often what the caption is, whether you have comments on That is very different to allowing that child to have their own social media account, or being
photographed by paparazzi or being forced to participate in official royal