‘Who does and who does not feature on the 王室の Christmas desk has always been like the changing panorama of 直面するs of the balcony': How The Queen's Christmas photo gallery was a 調印する of things to come for Harry and Meghan

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Whether it's a simple walk in the fresh 空気／公表する with the family or the 十分な pomp of a 載冠（式）／即位（式）, when it comes to 王室の occasions, the symbolism and choreography are all.

And nothing is more closely parsed for meaning at this time of the year than the Christmas broadcast of the 君主.

What, then, did Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex make of The Queen's message on Christmas Day 2019?

Filmed in the Music Room at Windsor 城, it was one of the more theatrically 行う／開催する／段階d of her seasonal broadcasts with a tastefully opulent background of gilded mirrors, oil 絵s candelabras and a twinkling, perfectly 割合d Christmas tree with light and golden baubles.?

But it was the foreground that 事柄d.?

The ギャング（団）'s all there with, from left, Charles and Charles and Camilla, Prince Philip, William's family picture and King George VI, the Queen's father. But there is no 調印する of Harry, Meghan or baby Archie

The Queen's Christmas broadcast in 2019 was the penultimate one she ever made

William, Kate and family were 目だつ. Harry and Meghan were not

Baby Archie, their first child, had been born earlier that year, another 広大な／多数の／重要な grandchild for the Queen

Prince Harry and Meghan with their son Archie during a 会合 with 大司教 Desmond Tutu in Cape Town, September 2019

By her 味方する and just a little bit in 前線 of the Queen, in 目だつ 見解（をとる） of her watching 支配するs, was placed a group of family photographs - 含むing a portrait of the father whose 早期に death at the age of 56 had a 一打／打撃 transformed her from young woman to Queen.?

Her son and 相続人?Prince Charles was 含むd with his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.

William, Kate and their children appeared in a happy group photograph while, peeking over them all at the 後部, was a portrait of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Harry and Meghan, new parents to baby Archie, were nowhere to be seen.

The Sussexes had featured in the past but now, まっただ中に fraught 交渉s about their wish for a new, 自治権のある? place in 王室の life ? and just a few weeks before Megxit was 正式に 宣言するd ? Harry and Meghan had 消えるd.

As author Robert Lacey 公式文書，認めるd in his best-selling 調書をとる／予約する 戦う／戦い of Brothers:

‘Harry and Meghan had featured smiling in a silver でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れる in 2018. But ther e would be no 調印する of them in 2019, nor any について言及する of the 指名する Sussex ? since that 指名する was, 明らかに, now to be used to sell 商品／売買する for which 許可 had not been asked from the Queen.

‘Who does and who does not feature on the 王室の Christmas desk has always been like the changing panorama of 直面するs of the balcony of Moscow’s Kremlin.

‘It showed who was in favour and who was not.’

As Lacey points out, The Queen 定評のある the arrival of Harry and Meghan’s first child, but 避けるd the word Sussex, preferring to say that, ‘Prince Philip and I have been delighted to welcome our eighth 広大な／多数の／重要な grandchild into our family.

The Sussexes, 令状s Lacy, ‘had been “非，不，無-personed” as 効果的に as the Soviets 非，不，無-personed Trotsky and Khrushchev.’

There were perfectly good 推論する／理由s for not 含むing Harry and Meghan.?

An ever-拡大するing 王室の Family meant there was - and is - an 必然的な 限界 to the number of photographs that could be 陳列する，発揮するd. (The Danish 王室の family has had 類似の and 井戸／弁護士席-publicised difficulties in working out who and who should not be （許可，名誉などを）与えるd 十分な status).

The few that made the 削減（する） in the Windsor 城 music room were either in the direct line of succession or, in the 事例／患者 of Philip, Prince Consort, married to the Queen. There was a logic to it.

Could the cull of photographs have been the whim of a TV 生産者 - someone who likes clean lines and tidy desks, perhaps.

Lacey thinks not. によれば insiders, he 令状s, the choice 初めは been the idea of Prince Charles, keen to 促進する a ‘slimmed 負かす／撃墜する’ 君主国.

Prince Harry and Meghan at Canada House, just one day before they dropped the Megxit 爆弾

Two young mothers,? Kate and Meghan, …に出席する the polo at the Billingbear club in the summer of 2019

?Meghan smiles for the cameras, Prince Harry looks 負かす／撃墜する as they …に出席するd their last 約束／交戦 at the 連邦／共和国 Day Service on March 9 2020

Moreover, the 決定／判定勝ち（する）, however it had been reached, was 明確に been supported by the Queen.

Palace sources, 一方／合間, had let it be known ‘that the 計画（する） of 描写するing the direct line of 王室の succession was enthusiastically supported by Prince William, who was not 説 anything for the 記録，記録的な／記録する ? but 手配中の，お尋ね者 to send his younger brother a message.’

That message 攻撃する，衝突する home, at least によれば Finding Freedom by プロの／賛成の-Sussex authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, who 結論するd that, to Harry and Meghan, the choice of pictures was ‘yet another 調印する that they needed to consider their own path.’

Three weeks later, the Sussexes astounded the nation by 発表するing they would 分裂（する） their time between north America and Britain and 放棄する 前線-line 王室の 義務s.