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ending soon. Okay, hear me out. What if the Harry and Megan story is about power, but not the way you think.

The soap opera-style battle between the UK's royal family and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex,

is not that interesting to me.

But the battle between the UK tabloids and Harry and Megan, celebrity expats and Montecito,

is because once the couple stepped down as senior members of the royal family in 2020

and launched their own production company, Archwell Productions,

they effectively traded one media ecosystem for another.

They traded in their broken relationship with the Rhoda.

That's the press pool that covers the British royal family.

For the celebrity industrial complex of the U.S.,

with its wide array of narrative tools.

For instance, the Gazi sit-down interview.

Nearly two billion people around the globe watch their wedding.

From the outside, it looked like something out of a fairy tale.

The memoir and its attached book tour.

Prince Harry, in its own words, the truth needs to be that.

And it needs to come from me.

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