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Harry and Meghan need to know that freelance life isn’t a walk in the park | Gaby Hinsliff

When royals try to be entrepreneurial or work with billionaires, it doesn’t usually go well. Still, there’s always the acting
‘There’s talk of the Sussexes leveraging their unique mix of royalty and Hollywood celebrity to become globetrotting ambassadors with a social conscience.’ Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA

If they really crave freedom this badly, it seems cruel not to let them have it.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s yearning to go freelance (sorry, carve out a “ within the institution of the royal family) may have burst into the open at the worst possible time for a troubled monarchy – but on a human level it’s easy enough to understand.

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