Tune in to the Harry & Meghan Show Christmas Special

OPINION: Is nothing sacred? Surely one must feel sorry for their monarch and the ritual of the Queen’s Christmas message.

You may have to compete with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex who recently signed a lucrative deal with Spotify to produce and host podcasts of uplifting kindness and compassion, launching this Christmas.

Forget about postprandial alarm clock settings to make sure the loyal subject doesn’t miss out on the Queen’s message. That spoken epistle engraved in stone runs the risk of becoming an old hat or old crown.

The Harry and Meghan podcast is apparently specially designed to enliven audiences around the world with a narrative of shared memories and challenging experiences that shaped 2020.

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What a minute, hasn’t that been the constant theme of the Queen’s message: reflecting on the events of the past year and offering a message of hope through shared experience?

And if anyone has the right to call 2020 the annus horribilis above all annus horribulises, it would be His Royal Highness, who reintroduced the phrase into our lexicon in 1992. Obviously, this is a clear case of acute copy-catus. .

Talk about the Santa Barbararians at the door and “triumph”, if you’ll excuse the expression, the Queen at Christmas. Clearly, the Sussexes like to make a splash and will continue to do so, until they tsunami the company at Old Blighty.

At least Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson had the decency to sneak off to the Bahamas after he voluntarily abdicated and separated from royalty. The Sussexes were lip-service about wanting a quiet life, but have sought the limelight in an explosion of publicity since resigned from California.

Following news of this latest Spotify deal, British broadcaster Piers Morgan referred to the Sussexes as “those hideous scammers” and pretended to vomit into a garbage can by listening to excerpts from a short and sanctimonious podcast in which the couple voiced their intention to become global benefactors.

Now the Sussexes are branching out and aiming for the Queen’s top spot in a royal television audience war.

The representation of the Queen in seasons 3 and 4 of The crown as an obedient but cold monarch he was the signal for the royal family to surround the wagons and present a solid front to those gullible enough to take the work of fiction as the truth of the gospel.

Having a grandson whom he once looked at with such warmth and favor now that he works with Netflix, the purveyors of a fiction that painted him in such an unflattering way, could only be seen as gross disloyalty.

One of the disadvantages of living a very long life is that you can see the history, or its history, of yourself while you are still breathing. The Queen seems bored because she put devotion to duty at the center of her life and has not wavered in it.

The residual reckoning on behalf of his mother could be at the heart of Harry’s defection from the family bosom, but one wonders what talents he will bring to this glorified podcast. Hello! draft.

“Tune in folks to hear what a real life Duke learned in the military and see how an actress Duchess teaches yoga!”

Will there be an appetite to see the Sussexes do a bit of condescension to interview the common man for stories of pain, suffering and heroism? Even The crown I would lose that episode.