“The firm”: in British reality, the well-known business is always the first

When Meghan, the wife of Principal Enrique, revered to the British real family as “the Firm” in her dramatic interview with Oprah Winfrey the Domingo, evocó an institution that is like a business like a fantasy. Ahora is a crisis crisis, despite the fact that the couple accused members of the family of having racist and cruel acts.

Buckingham Palace responded on Tuesday that “the whole family is thrilled to know who has been challenged since the last years for Enrique and Meghan”. According to the official communication, the accusations of racism are “preoccupied” and “although some records may vary, they are very serious and will be addressed by the family in private”.

For supuesto that the story of Enrique and Meghan is a traumatic personal drama: of fathers and daughters, men and women, who are drawn to stories, real or imaginary. Without embarrassment, too, it is a labor story: the difficulties of a glamorous and independent stranger who incorporates a familiar, rigid, and vicious, uncompromising family business.

‘No somos una familia. We are a company ”(Rey Jorge VI)

Dicho termin (la Firma) suele associates with the principle Felipe, the consort of Queen Isabel II, who popularized his uso. Without embarrassment, it is being rebuilt at the right time, by the father of the queen, King Jorge VI, who, as he says, declared on one occasion:We are not a family. We are a company”.

If a company that There is much more to the real estate, there is a trade union of private secretaries, communications assessors, company ladies, mayors and lovers of slaves, coffers, lackeys, domestic workers, gardeners and all the people who live there , from the reality that lives in them.

Tan alone at Buckingham Palace has more than 400 employees, all of whom are engaged in a fast-paced catering business for the decades of banquets, parties in the state garden and stages that organize the reindeer, have a public relations device of corporate type, members are on the verge of leaving the world of periodism or politics.

‘It is very difficult to differentiate between the family and the machinery“, Commentary by Penny Junor, historian of reality and author of” The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor “. The family members, signal, use private secretaries for their staff to invite their fathers or daughters to pay.

“Geen vrou buenos para cuidarse los unos a los otros” (Penny Junor, historian)

“This is not a family that is good at communicating with each other,” Junor said. “From here, geen son buenos para cuidarse los unos a los otros”.

When he explains his motives for marching, Enrique and Meghan also know each other like the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Solian mentions this bureaucracy and does not have his close relatives. Members of the palace’s communication staff will not be defending Meghan from the defamatory press information, dijeron. The assessors said that they should not be allowed to come with their friends because they were expelled, but only if they were safe from the Kensington Palace two times a month.

Enrique wrote a state-of-the-art species that allows for all aspects of everyday life and appreciation including family members, such as the principles of Carlos and Guillermo, that appear to be within their confines.

“My father and my husband are trapped,” said Winfrey. ‘No pueden salir. And it’s a huge compass for that ”.

Days before the interview, the power of the bureaucracy of the palace is evident when The Times of London informed that Meghan had intimidated members of her staff, and hizo to lose minor category assistants, in addition to sending to personal assistants. A port of Meghan desestimating the accusations to be an intention to “miss his reputation”.

Including the fact that the Germans are dividing their staff, the relationships with the turbulent firefighting assistants, ‘n menudo by the cohabitation noticeable little Meghan. It shares its opinion with staff when it announces in the year 2020 that it plans to withdraw from its functions and abandon the United Kingdom, by which employees will be employed.

The tensions will be displayed solely between the staff of the parish, together with the real houses of the family, in the Buckingham Palace, where the staff of the Queen, and in Clarence House, the residence of the Prince Carlos.

Relations with the press are at the center of the conflict between the couple and the family. In addition to his own proprietary and difficult personal history, the principle of Carlos cultivated the best relations with the British admiralist Prince Enrique and Meghan, whom he co-sponsored with the tabloids and presented privacy demands against them.

Enrique, who collapsed the cobra of the prince after the death of his mother, Diana, in a car accident in Paris in 1997, died of an “invisible contract” between the family and the paintings. “If, as a member of the family, you are willing to give birth, you will offer and offer total access to these reporters,” he said, “the press will be more voluntary.”

Comment that his father and other members of the estaban family aterrorizados that the sensationalist press is turning against them. The supremacy of the monarchy, affirmed, depends on the fact that there is a definite image ahead of the British people, which propagates through the leaflets of great circulation. Like Casa Blanca, the palace of access to a rotation of real reporters, documenting the meetings and ceremonies of the Queen.

“There is a level of control over money that has existed for generations” (Principle Harry)

“There is a level of control over the fact that it has existed for generations,” said Enrique. “Repeat, for generations”.

The historians val saam in that the relationship between the real family and the sensationalist press is repaired in the decade of 1920. Casi siempre, the transaction has benefited both parties: the real family has had an exhibition for their activities, what they have helped to justify its security financed by public funds and other guests. The sensationalist press, for its part, has a constant barrage of principles and princes, dukes and dukes, to sell periodicals.

With the death of Rupert Murdoch in the Decade of the Sentenced, the coverage of the press over the reality is most invasive and implacable. Enrique’s request against the periodical The sun, owned by Murdoch, said his cell phone had intervened. Van su parte af, Meghan ganó hace poco un juicio contra The Mail on Sunday to publish without authorization a private card that has been sent to his father, Thomas Markle, from whom he is distanced.

The couple’s interview caused an important storm in the media on March, when Piers Morgan, the presenter of “Good Morning Britain” in ITV News, renunció de manera abrupta. Morgan, a parish critic of the parish, said “he did not believe in a word” of the interview, including Meghan’s confession of having committed suicide, which provoked more than 41,000 people to regulate British communications.

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