Speaker 1: You're listening to I'm Ama mea podcast. You're not meant
Speaker 1: to be prescriptive or have opinions when you're a royal.
Speaker 1: Is that true?
Speaker 2: It is true, although I think it's shifting because what's
Speaker 2: really interesting to me here, right, is that Meghan and
Speaker 2: Harry are positioning themselves as the kind of royal celebrity
Speaker 2: hybrids that they want to be. So Harry's writing opinion
Speaker 2: pieces for The New Statesman and he's going to the
Speaker 2: Ukraine and whatever. And they're also monetizing. So Megan is
Speaker 2: giving speeches at the World Health Organization, but she's also
Speaker 2: selling her clothes and she's also got a Jam line. Now,
Speaker 2: this again is classic modern diversification, which is, you know,
Speaker 2: we've got to have fingers in lots of pies. It
Speaker 2: used to be, and certainly for royals, you're either this
Speaker 2: or you're that. Choose and they're like, we will not choose.
Speaker 2: But it's very interesting because her critics, who are trying
Speaker 2: to find bad things to say about it, are saying, well,
Speaker 2: you can't be that and a jam saleswoman, And I
Speaker 2: kind of argue that. In twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: She ca yeah, I agree. The other criticism I've heard
Speaker 1: which makes me roll my eyes is the day before
Speaker 1: this trip, and the day before she gave this speech,
Speaker 1: she posted a photo to her own Instagram of her
Speaker 1: It was a mirror selfie and in front of her
Speaker 1: was a little about her daughter with the back to
Speaker 1: the camera so you couldn't see her face, and the
Speaker 1: caption was Mama's little helper, and it was in her
Speaker 1: glamorous closet with all and whatever, like she's a celebrity
Speaker 1: and she's rich, like, let her have it. But the
Speaker 1: idea that it's somehow hypocritical to post pictures of your
Speaker 1: children on your own social media and she's only ever
Speaker 1: done that, not identifying their faces in various ways, as
Speaker 1: a lot of people choose to somehow say that is hypocritical.
Speaker 1: When she's criticizing the social media companies for allowing kids
Speaker 1: that are too young and to be using them and
Speaker 1: to be exposed to awful messages. I don't think that's hypocritical.
Speaker 1: I think that And the same way that they're like
Speaker 1: they wanted to leave the royal family, and people say, well,
Speaker 1: if they wanted a private life, why are they now
Speaker 1: on Instagram and giving speeches what they wanted was control,
Speaker 1: and when you post a picture of your child on
Speaker 1: your own social media you have full control over what image,
Speaker 1: what angle, how often what the caption is, whether you
Speaker 1: have comments on That is very different to allowing that
Speaker 1: child to have their own social media account, or being
Speaker 1: photographed by paparazzi or being forced to participate in official
Speaker 1: royal