The alliterate one and her husband had a huge blowup prior to his big speech in NYC.

Apparently she wanted a role in it and was upset he hadn’t tried to get her a speaking role too.

When they do divorce, this fight play a role in it.

Meghan Markle

Prince Harry

Nelson Mandela International Day held at the United Nations General Assembly

 

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Why Prince Harry was such an inappropriate keynote speaker on Mandela Day

The first Nelson Mandela International Day held at the United Nations General Assembly was in 2010. I get that this event happens annually and, 12 years in, the list of speaker options may have dwindled. But how the U.N. concluded that the best choice for the keynote address in 2022 was Prince Harry is head-scratching.

Harry on Monday referenced Mandela’s “vision of a freer, more peaceful world” — but the United Kingdom never afforded its colonies that vision.

Though South Africa was originally colonized by the Dutch in the 17th century, the British occupied the country in the 1790s and officially took it over in the early 1800s. After that, South Africa was under British rule for well over a century, fighting rebellions from both the Dutch-descended Afrikaners and the native Zulus. While the British were not in charge of the country’s domestic affairs when the Afrikaner-dominated government established apartheid in 1948, the U.K. government’s passive stance on the issue allowed it to benefit from South Africa’s resources (like gold).

While it’s debatable whether the royal family supported apartheid, former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (and thus the country’s elected government) strongly opposed sanctions on South Africa, which much of the world united behind in the 1980s and are believed to have been crucial to ending apartheid. It is widely known that Mandela’s work against apartheid is what landed him in prison for 27 years, so the idea that a British royal should fete him before the U.N. now smacks of obtuseness at best. – Source

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