eprintid: 10165726 rev_number: 13 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/16/57/26 datestamp: 2023-02-28 12:00:11 lastmod: 2024-01-30 16:58:36 status_changed: 2023-02-28 12:00:11 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Hazell, Robert title: Harry and Meghan Shine a Light on Monarchy, and its Demands ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B03 divisions: C03 divisions: F30 keywords: monarchy, privacy, lack of freedoms, size of royal family note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. abstract: The Netflix documentary Harry and Meghan conveys the impression that they have been uniquely victimised. But the difficulties they have faced are shared by all the royal families of Europe. It is monarchy which is unique, in the extraordinary demands which it makes of close members of the royal family. They lack freedoms which ordinary citizens take for granted: privacy; free choice of career; freedom of speech; freedom to marry whom they like; freedom of religion; and freedom to travel. It is not surprising if individual royals wish to escape the gilded cage. But as Harry and Meghan have shown, opting out is easier said than done. date: 2023-01 date_type: published publisher: Wiley official_url: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.13230 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2005417 doi: 10.1111/1467-923X.13230 lyricists_name: Hazell, Robert lyricists_id: RJDHA19 actors_name: Kalinowski, Damian actors_id: DKALI47 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Political Quarterly volume: 94 number: 1 pagerange: 133-137 citation: Hazell, Robert; (2023) Harry and Meghan Shine a Light on Monarchy, and its Demands. Political Quarterly , 94 (1) pp. 133-137. 10.1111/1467-923X.13230 <https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.13230>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10165726/1/Hazell_Harry%20and%20Meghan%20Shine%20a%20Light%20on%20Monarchy%2C%20and%20its%20Demands_AAM.pdf