Palast „erwägt, Harry zum Generalgouverneur von Kanada zu ernennen, um Meghan zu besänftigen“

This article seems mostly like an attempt to bash Harry and Meghan, but it’s truly incredible that someone in the palace thought not only that this was possible, but that it was a good idea that would go over well. Seems some staff are unaware that they no longer rule an empire

The phrase „making“ him governor-general is problematic and the Telegraph doesn’t appear to understand the governor-general is chosen by Canada, not the royal family.

The scenario isn’t totally out to lunch though. Conceivably the royal family could have worked with Trudeau to arrange the appointment. Harry’s reputation was better in 2020 and Canadians might have supported it if a workaround had been found for the „not Canadian“ thing.

Of course Julie Payette, awkwardly, was still on the job. The timeline of this article isn’t super clear, but the discussions seem to have been around New Year 2020. Payette’s toxic workplace allegations didn’t break until July 2020 and the review that forced her resignation didn’t come out until January 2021.

If the royals had been able to convince Harry to hang on a little longer, I bet Trudeau wouldn’t have minded announcing a „star“ GG like Harry to replace Payette in 2021 and take the attention off that disaster.

It’s an old thing. When they first moved it was their plan to live in Canada and there was news in the media about that.

GC told them that since they were not on official business from the Queen, they would not be protected by the GC.

They move to the US.

Good move.

If true, it wouldn’t be the first time the Royals have tried to offshore one of their more problematic members — notable example being the Duke of Windsor being appointed governor of the Bahamas in 1940 because he was a Nazi sympathizer and they wanted to get him out of Europe.

The Globe & Mail had an editorial in January 2020, „why members of the royal family can’t live in Canada“ that made a point worth repeating. Seems to be about the same time this article’s discussions were taking place.

>Canada never had a class system with hereditary aristocrats like Britain, and Canada definitively broke with the idea of aristocracy when the Nickle Resolution of 1919 asked the British government to stop conferring titles on Canadians…. Furthermore, since the 1950s, governors-general have always been Canadians. Princes are not shipped over here when no useful duties can be found for them on the other side of the Atlantic… Canada is not a halfway house for anyone looking to get out of Britain while remaining a royal.

Let’s keep our royals overseas and symbolic.

> “Harry being governor-general of Canada wouldn’t happen because you need to be Canadian,

I’m not even sure this is even true. Does anyone have a source for this? None of the BNA acts touch on citizenship requirements and the Letters Patent 1947 says nothing about nationality or citizenship.

I would imagine the palace probed Canadian officials and they said „no thanks“ for obvious reasons that it wouldn’t be a good look to hand the office to a British royal… but I’m not sure it’s technically true you have to be a citizen.