Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who had completed an important two-day visit to Jordan this week, appeared to have received a mixed reaction from the British public and royal fans.
While some had praised the couple for their efforts, others strongly criticized the “quasi-royal” tour and called them out for copying the royals. But the Duke and Duchess of Sussex received a rather sad verdict in the case.
According to royal experts, Harry and Meghan have ended up in a difficult place after their exit from the senior positions and the split with the royals, but the criticism this time had been “largely unfair” for the couple.
The Jordanian royals have very close ties to the British royal family, pointed out royal expert Russell Myers, who has written a joint biography of Prince William and Princess Kate. He also pointed out that Jordan is “pretty much in the royal family’s backyard”.
Although he maintained that Harry and Meghan did not deserve the intense criticism as they had been in the country for a humanitarian visit at the invitation of the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
He suggested that even if Harry and Meghan were being followed by a camera crew or filming a new documentary for Netflix, they were still using their profile for the “public good”. Russell went on to urge people to “calm down” on the Sussex case.
