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Since terminating their service to the British people as working royals to find privacy in Cannabis County, Calif., the only "content" Harry and Meghan have produced is high-profile complaints, criticism, litigation, and allegations against their families and others, especially the British media. The public nature of their grievances and progressively outlandish allegations makes them ready case studies in instrumental victimologies, including its lowest expression: stolen victimhood.
In his meticulously researched Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War between the Windsors, Tom Bower documents Harry's complaint that his father failed him psychologically. Growing up, Harry faced the challenges of his parents' unsuccessful marriage and the tragedy of his mother's untimely death. It was neither possible nor providential for Harry to be fully shielded from those losses. When now-king Charles told his son it's going to be difficult for you as it was for me, he was bestowing a gift of truth upon his child. The psychotherapy movement of the last one hundred years is partly to blame for the myth that we should be spared grief and shouldn't have to rise above turmoil. Trials and tragedies of life, not trust funds, enable our full humanness.
The victimology that his father abandoned him has crippled Harry's capacity to grow into his own manhood. Even Oprah Winfrey, who was only too glad to hurt the British royal family, balked when Harry wailed that he was down to his last £10,000,000 when daddy cut him off. Harry has often complained about the trauma of walking with the men of his family behind his mother's coffin. This was a great honor to his mother's memory, and a great service to the British people, but in the psychology of instrumental victimhood, feelings matter more than honor. Harry's personal victimhood made him vulnerable to marrying an American wrecking ball who would use him as a stepping stone for fame, power, and wealth.