Harry and Meghan: Do you really have to divorce your family to have a successful marriage?
The IndependentThe best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy This coronation has got me thinking – it’s more like a wedding, what with the presents and the glitzy guest lists, and the way it all centres around one couple and their children. The majority of the coronation conversation to date has been about whether Harry and Meghan will be there – showing us that, despite being the King’s big day, it’s really all about a particular child, a particular son, and his very different wife. A born-again Californian, Harry will surely be familiar with America’s cringeiest bumper sticker epithet, “happy wife, happy life”. As the historian Simon Sebag Montefiore notes in his latest book, Ottoman sultans had their rebellious sons strangled with a bowstring by deaf mutes; Mongol khans trampled their spares under horses’ hooves.
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