Harry and Meghan are still giving Britons what they really want from royalty: cruel spectacle | Jonathan Freedland

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You don’t have to be a fan of the couple to see that monarchy exacts too high a price – and abolition would do the Windsors a favour, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

, and when homeless people shiver on the streets. But I rather liked James O’Brien’s response to an LBC caller who chided him for covering the Netflix show instead of graver matters. “But you didn’t call me about those things, did you? You called me aboutAdmittedly, the platform is a departure from royal tradition. Harry’s parents conducted their war against each other via interviews on ITV and the BBC; now the outlet is a global streaming service.

relocated from Hawaii to Italy for its second season. Perhaps the best way to think of the Sussexes is as a spinoff from the main show. Production has been outsourced and privatised, but it remains very much the same brand.For what is the story that Harry and Meghan are telling? It is of a royal clan riven into factions, a tale so old Shakespeare was“the bond crack’d twixt son and father” nearly half a millennium ago.

Indeed, they are doing the deeper part of the job too: holding up a mirror – albeit a wonky one – to the nation royalty serves.

 

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