Lord Rothermere, the saga of rich viscounts that has controlled the Daily Mail for more than a century

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Harry and Meghan's bombs only target Kensington Palace or Clarence House, they have also hit Fleet Street, the

.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have not cut a hair in the docuseries that Netflix is ​​broadcasting by chapters, especially Harry, who has complained about racism and the harassment that his wife has suffered from the tabloids ...

of him.

He already dropped it in the famous interview with Oprah Winfrey, but has now spelled it out by stating that

(as the Windsors are known) and the tabloids have some kind of

: the offices of Carlos and Camilla or Guillermo and Kate offer them

and an acceptable level of scrutiny -with some malicious gossip- in exchange for privacy in their palaces.

, an adviser to a public relations consultancy that works with the Sussexes in their foundation,

explains it in the series : "There is a kind of

the taxpayer pays for the royal family and in return they are expected to make the

available to the media."

Meghan and Harry tried to control that exposure but couldn't.

Harry 's

against

or

comes from afar (remember that cover dressed as a Nazi) but since his relationship with Meghan it has intensified.

In February of this year, he filed a defamation lawsuit against Associated Newspaper Limited, the publisher of the

and the

, the same one Meghan sued (and won €1.2 million) for the publication of a letter from his father in 2020.

The Sussexes'

is a

who inherited from his father the lucrative business founded by his great-grandfather, Harold.

At 55,

, is the

He controls the UK's best-selling daily and Sunday newspapers (

), the largest-circulation free daily (

) and the

, a science magazine he bought in 2021.

The Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) company

and 800,000 on Sundays.

Viscount Rothermere also controls 10% of national news web traffic (only the BBC and Reach surpass him), according to the

, a magazine dedicated to journalism and the press

based on sensationalism, morbidity, events and

.

Also politics, of course, (his role as him in the Brexit campaign was crucial) and, of course, the Windsors.

of him and, unsurprisingly, Harry and Meghan the most hated..

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Rothermere became Press Baron at the age of 30

, following the death of his father, Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere, in 1998. He has two older sisters (Geraldine and Camilla) but was guided by his father as a child to take the reins of the empire.

His mother,

and actress Patricia Matthews,

, giving birth to Jonathan in 1967. After two girls and his father-in-law,

, he became to marry and have a boy, she saw her family's position in the media empire in danger.

Lady Rothermere, nicknamed

because of her fondness for champagne, died in Nice of an

.

Jonathan did his homework well after assuming the chairmanship of DMGT and gambling on the internet when many of his competitors went under.

Married to

(55),

(three girls and two boys between the ages of 29 and 12) and a

, according to the list of the richest in the United Kingdom that publishes

.

The

that rules among the editors of the British tabloids (I don't do your dirty laundry and you don't do mine) has meant that little is known about his private life.

There is, apparently, only one stain on his idyllic life

The relationship broke up and she returned to her native country with the child and a

Of his five children, the eldest, Vere, is the one who is expected to succeed his father, although the second,

, points to ways because he has already taken his first steps and works at

.

In 2019, she jumped into the media for

for having used a private jet to travel to Ibiza.

Harold Harmsworth, the 1st Viscount Rothermere, with Hitler in Berlin in the 1930s.GETTY

But if there is someone controversial in the Rothermere saga, it is

that he set up in 1896 with his older brother, Alfred.

and their influence was enormous.

On the death of Alfred, who had no children, Harold became the great British newspaper magnate and

, but his political sympathies got his descendants in trouble:

The Mail

was rewarded with exclusive access to the

's entourage and published several

throughout the decade.

Harold also cultivated a friendship with the German dictator and with

and compared to Napoleon, and

.

His employees used to wear the famous black shirts of the fascist leader and the incendiary editorial that Rothermere published in 1934, entitled

, is still remembered .

(Hooray for the blackshirts).

Viscount Rothermere had three children (the two eldest died in World War I) and many mistresses.

The most famous of them,

whom he met at the Monte Carlo casino, worked as

.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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