Just about all the pieces I learn about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle I’ve been compelled to soak up in opposition to my will.

For the previous couple of months, even years now, the lives of the couple have been splattered throughout front-page articles and mainstream information. Whereas Markle has had a profession as an actress in the USA, Harry’s greatest — and admittedly solely — declare to fame is a household affiliation he gained by means of delivery. Amidst a rising value of dwelling disaster, colossal international inflation charges and a terrifying local weather disaster, information that issues shouldn’t be hijacked by meaningless tabloid gossip.

Whether or not it was the bit about how Harry misplaced his virginity behind a shack to a lady that handled him “like a stallion” or his mushroom journey at Courtney Cox’s residence, I’ve involuntarily discovered particulars in regards to the lifetime of this 38-year-old prince from the Home of Windsor.

There was no technique to keep away from it. Be it on information web sites, on Instagram or Twitter feeds, on Netflix or Spotify prime 10 lists, and now even on the cabinets of bookstores — my common protected haven — there was no escape from Harry, Meghan and different British royals (or ex-royals).

The current launch of Harry’s memoir, Spare, has led to much more frenzied information protection of the household’s soiled laundry than common. December introduced a six-part Netflix documentary sequence and a string of media appearances. And naturally, nobody has forgotten the viral Oprah Winfrey interview in 2021.

However right here’s the irony.

Harry has repeatedly attacked the media, blaming them for the dying of his mom, Princess Diana, in addition to his spouse’s miscarriage amongst different issues. For a pair that has taken virtually each alternative to complain about how damaging intrusive journalism has been, Harry and Meghan appear oddly prepared to put naked each detailed minutia of their lives, in trade for tens of millions of {dollars}. And for some cause we are actually anticipated to care.

Harry’s newest declare, whereas selling his e-book, is that his elder brother William — the primary in line to the British throne — bodily assaulted him. As a substitute of relaying that to the police on the time, Harry opted to save lots of the element for a memoir offered at an official retail value of £28 ($34) per copy. I assume he wanted to steadiness what scandalous subjects made it to the Netflix documentary for which he and Meghan have been reportedly paid $100m, what makes it to a Spotify podcast sequence apparently value $18m and what made it to the e-book. How else would he get folks to pay for all of them?

Now with a e-book, podcast and documentary sequence out, we’re left questioning what the couple has saved to money in on a cinematic dramatisation of their lives which, in accordance with Peter Morgan, showrunner of the Netflix present The Crown, is “too contemporary” to write down but.

I have beforehand written about how irrelevant the royal household is, in addition to the corruption fuelling their energy. I’d have been the primary in line to purchase Harry’s Spare if he had confronted his grandmother — the late Queen Elizabeth II — on his household’s legacy of colonialism, international imperialism and oppression, and had written about that within the e-book. However to force-feed data like how Harry’s son, Archie, was not provided taxpayer-funded safety by the royal household is ludicrous and fails to garner my sympathy.

In the meantime, Harry has detailed how his strategy to a lot of the world is in line with his household’s historical past. As a substitute of making an attempt to create a pity story for the profoundly rich couple now dwelling in California, the media must be highlighting how Harry, in his e-book, described virtually with delight that he killed 25 folks in Afghanistan throughout his stint there with the navy. Harry has confessed to pondering of these he shot from his assault helicopter as “chess items” to be faraway from the board. That isn’t a shock: In any case, in 2013, he mentioned “taking part in PlayStation and Xbox” made him a greater navy pilot.

Dehumanising the lives of Afghans and others within the World South in fact comes naturally to the British elite. Lifeless Afghans are merely a statistic to them. Harry’s ancestors have led repeated invasions into Afghanistan since 1838, killing an untold variety of Afghans.

Simply as I’m not within the day by day lives of Harry and Meghan, I’ve no fascination with the British monarchy typically. Is the royal household corrupt? Sure. Is that this new data? No.

The media ought to cease focussing on Harry and Meghan’s antics and preserve it within the movie star gossip columns the place they belong.

There are way more pertinent issues we must be nervous about. The royal household and its members are solely related if we proceed to make them related.

The views expressed on this article are the creator’s personal and don’t essentially mirror Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.