ICHEOKU says and they are engaged with the nuptials scheduled for Spring 2018. Congratulations to Prince Harry and soon to be bride Meghan Markle on winning the heart of Queen Grandmother Elizabeth II; whose approval and nod has to be first sought and obtained before the duo could proceed with making their relationship formal through an engagement. It must have felt like pulling a tooth and a wait in eternity, waiting for the royal seal of approval; and happy are the duo who finally made the Queen see reason that things are no longer as they used to be and that matters of love is blind to colors.
The pair is a product of a world that has since moved on and which will, before too long, eventually, totally dispense with the royalty itself. It is a world which has now witnessed what would have otherwise been an impossibility; an unthinkable and unacceptable taboo some years ago, that a Prince of Wales who is in line for the Kingship of England is cavorting with or rather courting a commoner who is also happens to be black for that matter. ICHEOKU says anyone who says it was easy for those two love birds to get through the hurdle of the royal "mismatch" must be out of his or her mind, not to know or rather oblivious of what the British royalty or any other royalty anywhere is all about. It is about preservation and maintenance of certain purebred bloodlines, period. Such expectation of them or rather their ordered lifestyle, accommodates of no love or what the heir wants or wishes. He is bound by what his aristocracy determines is best suited for him by reason birth and age long traditions that come with the territory. His future role of propagating the throne of England is the key and nothing more; hence everything is funneled to making him a real royalty fit for King.
They seldom have any choice in their personal lives matters. Everything about and concerns them is treated as duty called and they are required to stoically, with stiff upper lip, soldier on in defense of what holds meaning to their life of pure luxury and great expectation; and they have no choice but to live the part. In some countries, some heirs or heir-apparents are known to have foresworn their royalty just to free themselves of the hamstrings of their birth. A choice which they did not make nor were consulted before it was determined; neither was their opinion ever sort about how to rejig things to make them more suitable to them or comfortable to their situational needs. In Thailand for example, the present King and former heir apparent severally denounced the throne before the imperial custodians persuaded him to see reason and agree to lead the people as their King. So uneasy lies the head that wears the crown and many have some understanding about what is making Prince Harry, the rebellious Prince of Wales, that he is.
Prince Harry does not want to be shackled down by centuries old institutions and traditions which literary owns his life as a Prince of Wales. So he uses every opportunity and available moment to telegraph to the palace that he is a different type of royalty, one who will not be bogged down by the dictates of royalty. That he is a Prince who runs away to Las Vegas to party hard, naked with chics and being caught on tape. That he is the type of royalty who drinks, drives fast cars, flies airplanes and helicopters as well as lead a company into battle grounds. Yes, he did not want to be a clone of his elder brother William, the dutiful prince and future King of England, who is so steeped in traditions and the carrying out of the duties of the office that so many admirers are getting impatient to see him coronated formally as the King of England; admitted they will have to wait a little longer and long enough for the Queen grandmother to pass on or abdicate her office, then his father Prince Charles to have a go at it or wave it on to his son Prince William before it becomes his turn.
Anyway, be that as it may, ICHEOKU says the riveting thing about what happened in England with this engagement is to say the least, revolutionary. Prince Harry has now incontrovertibly established himself as the villain Prince, the black sheep of the royal family, who pulled off the big hit and secured a near impossible royal approval from his grandmother the Queen to do an extraordinary thing - be engaged to a commoner who is also black. ICHEOKU says Her Majesty's love for her grandson Prince Harry did it, it conquered it all; as she said whatever will make my wild-buck prince grandson happy and help him settle down into a life of near routine. It is a new day people and like Romeo and Juliet, this mixed blessings has now further cemented the bond of friendship existing between America and Great Britain. The two countries are now, in addition to all the other things that hold them together, inlaws or soon to be in-laws. What will love not make possible. The power of love is stronger than steel and near infinite. It has made nations go to war and has caused the deaths of so many; but with Prince Harry and soon to be Duchess Meghan Markle, it has now cemented further the bond of two nations.
Queen Grandmother said yes my grandson Prince Harry, you can bring a commoner who is also black into our royal household as a bona fide member of the family. This is the gist of what went down. The Queen's assent is the 54 million dollar story here and ICHEOKU is salivating over it. The Queen against all odds, signed off on the relationship simply because of her love for her grandson who she wants to see him happy and fulfilled. ICHEOKU is emphatic that Meghan Merkel was definitely not and would not have been the Queen's first choice or preferred wife for his grandson Prince Harry, whom she had expected to follow in the footsteps of his brother Prince William and towed the path. But hey, the deal is done; both lovebirds are engaged to be married next Spring 2018 and what love has put together, nothing will or should put asunder. Not even the fact that Meghan is older than Prince Harry by about 4 years made the consideration list. Also, that Meghan is not a virgin and was previously married and a divorcee too, was not a downer either.
This is exactly what true love is all about really. A prince found love in the house of a commoner and sealed it with a diamond engagement ring. When the wedding bells ring in the Spring of 2018, Meghan Markle will be made to shed her commoner's garb and be transformed into a royalty, as she takes the title Duchess of Sussex. But her status will be automatically elevated beyond her imagination and hers is a story of how an American black lady captured the heart of a British true born Prince and denied every British lady of a chance at royalty, marrying their Prince Harry and into the royal family. There is definitely mourning in the house of so many British girls over this development; but provided the catfights are confined inside their respective homes, it shall be ok. William Shakespeare again was proved right that some people were born great and some people have greatness trusted to them and Meghan Markle has now become a beneficiary of the later, supremely privileged. ICHEOKU says congratulations to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle; as well as Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for giving them the nod to hitch it. May you guys have a wonderful life and your marriage be blessed abundantly with your hearts desires. This is good.
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Christy 'Apena' Essien-Igbokwe , the wife of Jegede Shokoya of the New Masquerade and Nigeria's lady of songs is dead; she was 51years old. Although her family claimed that "brief Illness" killed her like so many Nigerians; Icheoku retorts that it was most likely AKwa Ibom voodoo and remote control that was used to arrest her. It is on record that she had fallen out with the governor of her native Akwa Ibiom State and have been having a relentless war for political turf with the governor? So who knows whether she was sacrificed to Ekpe cult or even Alusi-Okija as an offal; afterall African science is still very much alive and portent. May her soul rest in peace.
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