Harry and Meghan are about to achieve what they wanted: to separate from British royalty. The last few weeks have been tense, and will continue to be so for a while, but Queen Elizabeth II has already announced that she will support them ... Reluctantly, the monarch officially communicated that she respects her grandson's decision, although it was also clear that she does not share much of it.
The “Megxit”, as the British press calls the couple's financial independence is a new crisis that threatens to tarnish the image of the royal family, who lived through a difficult year 2019, between a car accident and the husband's health problems Queen, Prince Philip, 98, and Prince Andrew's removal from all public office for his ties to the late US pederast Jeffrey Epstein.
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But the road will not only be difficult for the royal family in general, but a mistake by Prince Harry threatens to hinder that long-awaited financial independence for him, his wife and little Archie.
According to El Confidencial, the dukes, or more specifically their advisers, forgot to register their brand, with which they intend to market all kinds of products, outside the United
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Kingdom.
In June 2019 they registered two names, “Sussex Royal” and that of the foundation “Sussex Royal The Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Sussex”. They applied for commercial exploitation in six different categories encompassing 100 products, from socks to pens, publishing and printed rights. However, the newspaper details, they forgot to do the same in the rest of potential markets, mainly Europe and North America. “A trademark registered in a country has six months of protection so that its owner can deliberate to which other territories he wants to extend it and thus not have to do it at once in all countries, with the cost and paperwork that implies. But those six months have already passed and several smart individuals were ahead of them, "he details.
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The strangest thing about this beginner mistake is that Harry and Meghan intend to spend much of the year outside the UK, between Canada and the US.
But the Italian is not the only one who got ahead of them, Days later, on January 12, the firm Royalmount Spirits, filed with the authorities of Canada the property of the firm "Sussex Royal" for a package of very similar products: soft drinks and alcoholic beverages, caps and sporting goods and clothing like sweatshirts and t-shirts.
Joel Fogelson requested the same before the United States authorities for the exploitation of "Sussex Royal" in the telecommunications segment.
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Thus, the dukes' beginner's mistake jeopardizes a business potentially valued at about $ 450 million. The estimated figure includes the exploitation rights of his image.
The Dukes of Sussex have revealed on their website that they will indeed hire a private security team and have been quick to reveal the reasons that led them to make this decision: "the duke's public profile, by virtue of his birth in the family real, his military service, the Duchess's own and independent profile, and the threat and level of risk shared and that have been specifically documented in recent years, "reads the statement. For security reasons, no further details could be made public, nor has it been clarified who will provide or pay for this service.
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The couple's patience was full. The Sussexs threatened to take legal action if a situation they called "unacceptable" did not change.
Meghan and Harry will continue to generate interest in Canada (and if they expected otherwise, they were wrong), but perhaps not as much as it originally seemed.
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The couple traveled by private jet to the 1 Hotel in South Beach, Miami. Together they attended an exclusive event that is held every year by the financial giant JP Morgan and in which Harry, according to various local media reports, made a speech.
But a source revealed that everything related to the JP Morgan summit was carried out "secretly and in the midst of a broad deployment of security."
It seems that the Sussex media armoring, for the moment, does not stop.
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Does the press compensate a couple who is no longer royal and threatens lawsuits? No, if we take into account that the interest that Meghan and Harry have generated in recent weeks, two celebrities with a lot of money and time to bring whoever is needed in court, has decreased considerably.
Chambers and canvases now surround the Sussex home. The couple desperately seeks security and privacy. Efforts not to be exposed seem to have had an effect. Who cares about Meghan and Harry now? At the moment, to the American press, no ...
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