Prince Harry is a credit to our nation.

My wife and I had a bit of a disagreement about how Harry and Meghan Markle are being portrayed in the media following the Netflix documentary.  For the record, I am not going to watch it and have no interest in doing so.

I have commented on the double standards shown to the Duchess of Sussex before.  To put it simply, it appears racist when one person who is white is commended for actions that one person who is not white is condemned for the same actions.  Such things are not the fault of the rest of the Royal Family, but rather is the fault of the parts of the media that engage in it.  The media have not been nice to the Royal Family and action taken about this when their privacy has been intruded upon is right.  I understand that The Royal Family cannot comment each time an inaccurate article is published because they would constantly be firefighting.  However, they can and should comment when they see racism.  The inaction of the Royals to condemn the double standards which many see as racist is inexcusable.  

I do not think that King Charles or Prince William would intentionally be racist, but as seen with the recent case with Ngozi Fulani being asked by Lady Susan Hussey where she was really from, people can be unintentionally racist and as seen with Prince Harry when younger, can cause offence.  But too many people have been the victims of double standards, an example is how ethnic minority police officers have faced such issues.

There are calls for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to be stripped of their royal titles, but many of these people are happy for Prince Andrew, the man who did not meet or have sex with a women who had been taken from a state where sex with her would have been considered under age to a nation where sex with her could be legal, to remain a royal.  If Prince Andrew is stripped of his titles first, then we can consider the same for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

In addition to this, there are people who have claimed that Prince Harry hates Britain. This is a man who has served on the frontline for our nation. If he hated it, he would not have served it, or promoted The Invictus Games after he left. Like all those who love their nation, there will be things that he wants to improve. I consider myself to be patriotic and feel that our nation can and should be better. 

Those who can remember are aware how stories about Princess Diana were leaked to the press. People in the media who deny that negative stories have been leaked, are either ignorant or are lying. I suspect that there may be some truths in at least some of these stories, as we saw with Princess Diana, but considering these stories tend to be about Meghan rather than Harry, it appears that even in the couple, one gets an easier deal than the other from the press.

The bottom line is that too many in the media have shown appalling double standards in dealing with the couple. I disagree with the way that the couple are making money from their experiences, but they appear to have no fair way of getting their side of the story out. So far, at least, it appears that some allegations will not be addressed in the documentary, but I doubt the couple will be credited for that either.