Is Kate-Gate the Beginning of The End For The British Royal Family?
Over the past 1200 years, 62 monarchs from the same family tree have enjoyed an elevated position in the world as The British Royal family. Will 2024 end a system that many say has overstayed its welcome?
2023 brought the official coronation of King Charles as The Crown typically considered a celebratory moment. However, Charles does not hold the same public will as his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. Then Netflix’s last season of The Crown reminded viewers of how he treated his wife, Diana – The People’s Princess. As well as how out of touch he seems with his “subjects” everyday lives and struggles.
Add into the mix Harry & Meghan’s Netflix documentary about how their experience in The Royal Family was so horrible they decided to leave it and move to America. Harry continue this narrative in his tell-all memoir, Spare that laid bare how this revered family is actually one that shouldn’t be. Â
Then 2024 brought one of the oddest and most intriguing controversies – Kate Gate. What was reported by The Palace as a planned surgery and time off from Royal appearances has turned into a worldwide disaster? Now, they’ve not only lost the plot but lost the press and public’s trust. Adding fuel to the fire, photoshopped images of Kate catch them in lies only illustrating the exact policies and treatment that Harry and Meghan spoke to in their Netflix series and autobiography Spare.Â
Is This The Endgame After 1200 Years?
That’s the subject of a book, “Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival.” This second book from Omid Scobie follows his New York Times best-seller “Finding Freedom,” telling the tale of Harry & Meghan’s own Brexit.
Its title references the concept of an endgame, a word used to describe the last part of a game or process. Or how something ends. It will delve into the monarchy’s current state after the passing of its well-regarded stalwart, Queen Elizabeth II.
From a disastrous tour of the Caribbean reminding the world of the family and institution’s colonizing background to racist behavior from a senior royal at an official Palace event for women of diverse backgrounds, The Royal Era without Queen Elizabeth has been full of missteps.
If their expensive roles are only ceremonial, but their ceremonies are offensive to “their people,” then has their time as a monarchy come to an end?
A Harper Collins press release states, Queen Elizabeth’s “death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British monarchy begin to resurface.”
The book will “pull back the curtain on an institution in turmoil.” It will ” expose the chaos, family dysfunction, distrust, and draconian practices threatening its very future.”
Do you think the current senior royals and their courtiers have what it takes to save this 1200-year-old institution? Or is it truly the endgame?