Is this another Mrs Simpson moment

Subject: Is this another Mrs Simpson moment.

The event lies just outside most living peoples direct experience but it had ramifications then as publicly influential as the Brexit dilemma is at the moment.

Mrs Simpson was an American socialite and divorcee, twice over who had attracted the attention of Edward VIII the King. He was determined to marry her regardless of any constitutional problems or the fact that she had been divorced (twice) and the affair forced the palace and the establishment to veto marriage causing the King to abdicate the throne. 
It was a high energy soap opera played out on the fields of the highest estates in the land and only eventually solved, in that last bastion of British democracy, the Houses of Commons and the Prime Minister.
The issue at hand then as now is the baggage people have attached to them and the inability of society to let go and make peace.

 We have all been proud of the younger prince Harry, he seems a really likeable chap who carries his responsibilities well these days, far less the young rogue when growing up he has worked hard to install public awareness in the plight of the disabled ex servicemen especially with his personal involvement in the Invictus Games.  He has the touch of the common man, much as his mother Diana had in her work with patients suffering AIDS and also her high profile work highlighting the dreadful injuries caused by land mines to peace time civilians living in ex war zones.

William, Harry's brother was always set and educated to carry the mantle of a future King. He was groomed for the post from the beginning. His temperament was different much more statesman like, more adept at avoiding the pot holes of youth when growing up in the glare of the paparazzi.
He married an English Rose Katherine who has grown in the public eye as she faultlessly went about the public business, and even more importantly,  the business of motherhood, without blemish.
Harry was always likely to rock the boat, always likely to do his own thing, so it was no surprise when he announced his engagement to the American actress Meghan Markle.
Was history repeating itself. Was this foray into the muddy waters of American civil life not without risk, were there no skeletons in her cupboard (the Windsors have plenty in their own cupboard) and would an Americans view of what is right and proper coalesce with our own.
Meghan reflects the polished pubic relations profile which a young woman in the media eye has to have. She is secure in her Prince's love. She has the poise ( a somewhat manufactured one in my opinion) to carry off her engagements but she also has the mystery of her relationship with her father, her brother, and her sister. It's without question that her family are strange mixture of drug use, alcoholism and an apparent chasm between the views of her sister and herself as to family history. Only this morning her Father was appealing to the Royal Household to ask his daughter to reply to his attempts at communication. It seems a sorry state of affairs when a daughter won't speak to her dad, irrespective of the fact that he seems to have besmirched his own character.
The question is. Do we have a "diva" on our hands (a prima donna). Do we have someone who manipulates her position ( the love of her Prince) for her own gain. Someone who, only recent to power, has not yet learnt the responsibility which goes with it. Her clash with Katherine (the English Rose) and the tetchiness  that seems to have arisen between the brothers who it seems, (in time old custom) are drawn into supporting their wives on fear of something far worse. 
As I said at the beginning, it all evokes memories of the breakup in 1936, within the Royal Household. Two brothers and an American woman who was and is, ill equipped to conceal her feminine instincts and side with old fashioned stuffy tradition.