It wasn't till Sunday this week that the drama involving Prince Harry and Meghan Markle came to the fore in my head.

Being asked outright what I thought about their latest moves made me look beyond the social media glimpses I had seen of royal lives so far — and so far from our own.

There are many ways to look at their story and, not being privy to their inner sanctums, we can only piece together the tapestry from various sources.

In one recent article, Prince Harry points out that it was "a lack of support and lack of understanding" from "The Firm," as the royal family is sometimes referred to, that led to the decision to make their way out of the nimbus of royalty.

The couple felt they did not get the kind of defense they needed against the British press. One can only imagine how harsh these "takedowns" could be.

Prince Harry tells US Weekly: "When you can see something happening in the same kind of way, anybody would ask for help, ask the system of which you are a part, especially when you know there's a relationship there, that they could help and share some truth or call the dogs off, whatever you want to call it. So, to receive no help at all and to be told continuously, 'This is how it is. This is just how it is.

We've all been through it… It was like, 'I need to do this for my family.' This is not a surprise to anybody."

The younger prince had been very vocal about living a normal existence — "just being Harry," he said in another article.

Feeling "stuck" for a long time now, he said, "It's really sad that it's gotten to this point, but I've got to do something for my own mental health, my wife's, and for Archie's as well, because I could see where this was headed."

Lately, critics from everywhere — even in faraway Manila — have weighed in on the fact that the controversial couple was to be paid millions of dollars for their series of "tell-all" on Netflix.

Some believe if the couple simply wanted to have their side understood — for the world to see the reality they were up against for a long time — then monetizing it was not the answer.

Others think it's only right for individuals to speak up, to live their truth, and the rest will follow. The money, they say, is just a perk.

I am tempted to explore this from the point of view of "family" — and what it means to different people. But, as always, in the case of the Royal Family, it is harder to judge. Centuries of tradition, we see, had begun to crack from the waves of transformation our world continues to undergo.

While values have changed and people are learning to live in the present, it still pays to learn from the past and believe there is a long future for humankind.