Commentary: Harry and Meghan's UK return is the royal family's best PR in years

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Set us as preferred Honestly, it was probably the traffic.Have you ever tried to get into, or out of, Montecito in the summer, or virtually any other time of year? The 101 has long been a bottleneck nightmare as it approaches Santa Barbara and the yearslong project to widen the freeway has only made it worse.One may be rich and famous enough to skip the queue at a restaurant or Disneyland, but traffic cones and lane closures bow to no man.The “shocking” news that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, will be moving back to the U.K.

appears to have left many people baffled, their “burning questions” littering the media landscape.Why would Harry, who as recently as last year said he could not imagine returning with his family to a land where they were so relentlessly dogged by a vitriolic press, and Meghan, an actor who built a Netflix series and business off the fecundity of California’s 12-month growing season, ditch the West Coast for a country where she faced such inarguable racism? Maybe it was the weather.Meghan is a local girl, but endless sunshine, which initially seems such a blessing and balm to the damp British soul, can soon seem a bit aggressive (especially with the wildfire threats); even die-hard Californians long for a bit of drizzle now and again.Sussex critics, who are legion, have suggested that the move is simply a capitulation — like so many before them, the couple hoped to take Hollywood by storm and instead saw their Netflix and Spotify podcast deals wither as most of their projects met with, at best, middling success in the marketplace.If Meghan Markle wants to speak to other working moms, she should ditch her ‘I’m so rich I have time to make my own Cheez-Its’ show and get back to her actual work: actingExcept that’s how the entertainment business works these...