{"id":20356,"date":"2023-01-21T10:16:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T10:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/air-botswana-crew-kept-harry-and-meghans-romance-secret"},"modified":"2023-01-21T12:43:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T12:43:56","slug":"air-botswana-crew-kept-harry-and-meghans-romance-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/air-botswana-crew-kept-harry-and-meghans-romance-secret","title":{"rendered":"Air Botswana crew kept Harry and Meghan\u2019s romance secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>Courtesy of either discreet or social media-shunning Air Botswana crew members, it took the world much longer for the world to learn about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle\u2019s secret romance. After convincing Meghan to visit Botswana with him, Prince Harry had them fly separately. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t risk being seen together, the press finding out about us.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Not yet,\u201d Harry writes in Spare, his memoir that was officially published last Tuesday. The result was that Meghan flew from London to Johannesburg, then to Maun, where she was met by a friend of Harry\u2019s called Teej. \u201cI wanted to do it myself, of course, but couldn\u2019t without creating a scene,\u201d Harry says in the book. Instead, he met her at Teej\u2019s house where he asked her about the flight from Johannesburg to Maun. \u201cShe laughed about the Air Botswana crew,\u201d Harry writes of Meghan\u2019s response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were big fans of Suits, so they\u2019d asked her to pose for a photo.\u201d Meghan is an actress and at the time was a cast member of an American legal drama television series called Suits. It is set at a fictional New York City law firm. The series featured Meghan as Rachel Zane, an ambitious paralegal. She left the show in 2018 after marrying Harry and thus becoming a member of a family that lives an uncommonly regimented life. Botswana viewers get Suits through Dstv, a Sub-Saharan African direct broadcast satellite service owned by MultiChoice that is based in Randburg, South Africa and Netflix. Harry\u2019s own response to the news about Meghan\u2019s encounter with the Air Botswana crew was as follows: \u201cYay, I said, thinking: Shit. If one member of the crew posted that photo, the cat would be out of the bag.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cat stayed in the bag, in one respect because the couple wore disguises when out in public. Suits is shot in Toronto and visiting Meghan in the Canadian city, Harry reminded himself that \u201cToronto wasn\u2019t London, but it also wasn\u2019t Botswana.\u201d He makes that statement in the sense of London being infested with paparazzi. The cat (almost) bolted out of the bag as Harry left Toronto for London. When he landed at Heathrow Airport, \u201cit was all unconfirmed, and there were no photos, so there was nothing to fuel it.\u201d Or so he thought because that was \u201ccalm before the shit storm.\u201d He writes in the book: \u201cI\u2019d been braced for the usual madness, the standard libels, but I hadn\u2019t anticipated this level of unrestrained lying. Above all, I hadn\u2019t been ready for the racism. Both the dog-whistle racism and the glaring, vulgar, in-your-face racism.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mail took the lead. Its headline: Harry\u2019s girl is (almost) straight outta Compton. Subhead: Gang-scarred home of her mother revealed\u2014so will he be dropping in for tea? Another tabloid jumped into the fray with this jaw-dropper: Harry to marry into gangster royalty?\u201d \u201cStraight Outta Compton\u201d was forced cultural reference to the title of the debut studio album by a gangsta rap group called N.W.A (Niggers With Attitude) which was released in 1987 by a label called Ruthless Records. The album had a track, \u201cFuck tha Police\u201d, which drew the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. N.W.A members were from a crime-riddled Los Angeles county called Compton \u2013 which Meghan (or her black mother) had absolutely no connection with.<\/p>\n<p>Harry writes in Spare: \u201cAs if its headline wasn\u2019t disgraceful enough, the Mail went on to say that Compton had been the scene of forty-seven crimes in the last week alone. Forty-seven, imagine that. Never mind that Meg had never lived in Compton, never even lived near it. She\u2019d lived half an hour away, as far from Compton as Buckingham Palace was from Windsor Castle. But forget that: Even if she had lived in Compton, years ago or currently, so what? Who cared how many crimes were committed in Compton, or anywhere else, so long as Meg wasn\u2019t the one committing them? A day or two later the Mail weighed in again, this time with an essay by the sister of London\u2019s former mayor Boris Johnson, predicting that Meg would&#8230;do something&#8230;genetically&#8230;to the Royal Family. \u201cIf there is issue from her alleged union with Prince Harry, the Windsors will thicken their watery, thin blue blood and Spencer pale skin and ginger hair with some rich and exotic DNA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At this point, the cat was well and truly out of the bag. It would have done so months and much earlier had one member of the Air Botswana crew posted a photo of Meghan aboard the Johannesburg-to-Maun flight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\">Botswana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. Courtesy of either discreet or social media-shunning Air Botswana crew members, it took the world much longer for the world to learn about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle\u2019s secret romance. 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