Wherever you stand, on one side or somewhere in the middle, the Harry and Meghan interview with American talk show supremo Oprah Winfrey has grabbed headlines.

It's again put the British royal family - who are, to many minds, also our royal family - under scrutiny; perhaps as much as it has been since 1992, a year the Queen famously referred to as an "annus horribilis".

And, again, it has come from within, with the second son of the heir to the throne, and his wife, publicly attacking "the institution".

Prince Harry is clearly - and understandably - still impacted by the death of his mother, which he blames in no small part on the paparazzi. He has criticised the media for its intrusions and taken legal action.

Yet by appearing with Oprah and airing his family's dirty laundry to the world he is feeding the appetite for celebrity gossip, scandal and so forth. Those same people who keep the paparazzi in work by buying the trashy magazines would have been lapping up the interview.

It makes the Duke of Sussex a hypocrite.

For Meghan Markle, now the Duchess of Sussex, being a celebrity was a choice; it came with the territory of being an actor, where the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. We should not be surprised that she was happy to front the cameras again to tell her story.

Of course, what was shared with Oprah was their side of the story and there are always at least two of those. We will, however, hear little or anything at all from the family matriarch, the stoic and reserved Queen Elizabeth II, or others thrown under the bus by the Sussexes. It's not the royal style.

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The repercussions for their relationships will only be known by those whose lives are intertwined with the royal family.

What remains to be seen is how the whole affair - and the fallout - might effect the way we view such an institution in 2021.

Do we accept that family dramas played out in public are just part and parcel of having the royals or do we give them the flick?