By Sheila Mckenzie-
A biased royal biographer has attacked Meghan Markle and Prince Harry for accepting a prestigious human rights award, claiming without concrete grounds that their decision to accept the honour is because the ex-royal couple ‘want to be in the spotlight at any cost.’
Angela Levan was referring to scheduled plans for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to be honoured with the Ripple of Hope Award at a gala organized by the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation.
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She joined Robert F. Kennedy Jr in criticising Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s entitlement to being recipients of the award. Kennedy Jnr only recently described it as a “bewildering” decision to hand Prince Harry and Meghan Markle a humanitarian award by his father’s charity. He said he did not believe they had earned the right for the award.
The charity is named after former President Kennedy’s younger brother, who was assassinated in 1968 during his presidential campaign. The honour in question is grand, and the question of whether Harry and Meghan deserve it is a separate question worthy of examination and debate.
Levin’s criticism will resonate with many members of both the British and U.S public, but her contribution to this topic is questionable due to a seeming vendetta she has against the couple.
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Criticisms inspired by vendettas sometimes has the effect of sparking more support from otherquarters than would normally be the casse.
Vendetta
Ms Levan is on record for criticising Meghan Markle for not taking advise from Queen consort Camilla, an unfair criticism considering Prince Harry’s known reservations against Camilla over her role in snapping the now King Charles away from Princess Diana, who was Harry’s late mum. The royal biographer should have been aware that Meghan could easily be affected by this fact, being Prince Harry’s wife.
Her decision to join the criticism against the Human Rights Award to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is questionable in light of those biased comments in relation to Camilla and begins to resemble a bitter campaign against them.
The award has previously gone to former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, President Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Vice President Kamala Harris, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Desmond Tutu, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Apple CEO Tim Cook, anti-apartheid bishop Desmond Tutu, Colin Kaepernick and George Clooney.
Biographer Levin in a grudging tone told DailyMail.com she believed Harry and Meghan’s charitable credentials were ‘fantasy laced with persuasion’ and questioned: ‘Are they really up there with earlier award winners?’
‘Whichever way you look at it, their alleged achievements seem fantasy laced with persuasion and who knows what else, rather than fact,’ Levin said.
‘Meghan and Harry have found it difficult to get close to A-list celebrities. They haven’t received invitations to all the right parties so perhaps the next best thing for them was to get on award lists where A-listers abound.
‘Meghan especially is giving the impression they will stop at nothing to get to the top. She should be careful as it could all crumple.’
Ripple Of Hope
Harry and Meghan will be honoured with the Ripple of Hope Award at a gala organized by the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation on December 6.
The prestigious award has previously gone to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, George Clooney, Dr. Fauci and others
Professor David Nasaw – whose biography of Kennedy patriarch Joseph Kennedy was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize – told Yahoo News last week that it was ‘absurd’ to rank Harry and Meghan among previous recipients.
‘I find it somewhere between sublimely ridiculous and blatantly ludicrous,’ he said.
‘If you look at the people who have been awarded the Robert Kennedy prize in the past – Bill and Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Bishop Desmond Tutu – and then you have to ask what are Harry and Meghan doing here?
A press release for the human rights foundation said it chose the Sussexes for their work ‘advancing the global dialogue around mental health’, supporting Afghan refugees in the US, investing in Ukraine aid organizations, championing vaccine access and partnering with the NAACP on a ‘Digital Civil Rights Award’.
‘When The Duke and Duchess accepted our award laureate invitation back in March, we were thrilled. The couple has always stood out for their willingness to speak up and change the narrative on racial justice and mental health around the world,’ said Kerry Kennedy, 63, Bobby Kennedy’s seventh child and president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.
‘They embody the type of moral courage that my father once called the ‘one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.’
Whether Kerry Kennedy was influenced to give the award to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle this year is unknown, but a fact her sibling, Robert F Kennedy Jnr, is expected to be able establish from his family member.
Giving awards to individuals undeserving of them is a negative reflection of those giving the award.
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