Royal plea for privacy

Harry, with Meghan, describing the loss of his security detail as one of the most worrisome consequences of his bitter split with the royals. — AP

WHEN Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, decamped Britain for the United States in 2020, he portrayed it as an act of survival against a relentlessly intrusive British press. Recently, after a chaotic encounter with photographers in New York City, Harry found the media glare can be just as intense in his adopted home.

With details continuing to filter out about what exactly happened to Harry, Meghan and her mother, Doria Ragland, as photographers pursued them in midtown Manhattan, the episode underscored a basic paradox in the lives of this celebrity couple: they plead for privacy but also seek publicity, with a Netflix documentary, a tell-all memoir by Harry and public appearances that will inevitably draw cameras.