Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan
The couple is back in focus
Duchess Meghan and Prince Harry have been the big topic of conversation among Royal fans since December.
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Harry and Meghan returned with a bang at the end of the year. The couple seemed to have disappeared offside.
An eventful year lies behind Duchess Meghan (41) and Prince Harry (38). Which ended with a bang for the two of them and Harry’s famous family. And things could get worse for King Charles III. (74) and the Royals in Great Britain.
The Sussexes, who emigrated to the USA in 2020, made headlines at the beginning of this year, and not only with their commitment to charitable causes. In February, Harry attended the Super Bowl in Inglewood, California, with his royal cousin Princess Eugenie (32). A few weeks later, he did not attend a memorial service in honor of his late grandfather Prince Philip (1921-2021) on March 29 in London.
Offside at the throne jubilee
A big joint appearance by Meghan and Harry then followed in April: At the opening ceremony of the Invictus Games, a sporting event for war-disabled soldiers created by Harry, the Duke and Duchess gave each other a romantic kiss on the stage in The Hague. The two presented themselves much more reservedly at the beginning of June at the platinum throne jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022).
The couple – two years earlier the Sussexes had stepped down as senior royals – did not play a major official role in the four-day celebrations. They only publicly attended the thanksgiving service for the Queen in St. Paul’s Cathedral – without their children Archie (3) and Lilibet (1), who are said to have traveled to England. Were they intentionally or unintentionally on the sidelines at the time? Just a few weeks later, Sussex fans were happy: Duchess Meghan released the first episode of her podcast “Archetypes” on Spotify in August. Since then it has been running very successfully.
The Queen’s Death
When Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8th, the two US emigrants Harry and Meghan happened to be there. Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan traveled to Great Britain on September 3rd. Originally, the couple only wanted to spend a few days in Europe. Manchester was the Sussexes’ first stop, followed by a visit to Düsseldorf in the run-up to the 2023 Invictus Games being held there. After the Queen’s death, Harry and Meghan stayed in the Prince’s home until the state funeral on September 19. At the funeral service, Harry and his brother Prince William (40) walked side by side with other family members in a procession to Westminster Abbey behind the coffin of Elizabeth II. The last alliance of the two?
Hostilities in the documentary
Rumors have long been circulating that the Sussexes would make new allegations against the royals in a documentary and in Harry’s autobiography. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey (68), which ran on US television in March 2021, there were allegations of the two against the royal family. And indeed, they followed suit in the documentary series “Harry & Meghan”, which was released on Netflix in December 2022. Meghan spoke again about the fact that she was allegedly not allowed to get help during her time at the palace, despite major mental health problems. The two describe how Meghan in particular was exposed to the tabloids’ hostility and claim that the individual offices of the royals work against each other here. “If the comms team wants to get a negative story on you, they’ll offer a story on another team’s royal in exchange,” Harry said.
Further allegations from the documentary: The Sussexes’ plans to move abroad were leaked by the institution. A meeting on their withdrawal plans in early 2020 was only arranged when Meghan was no longer in the country. The Duke of Sussex claims: “So she couldn’t be there.” He then said of the meeting with his father Charles, brother William and the Queen: “It was horrific. My brother yelled at me. My father said things that weren’t true. And my grandmother just sat quietly and listened.” The saddest thing about it was “that wedge,” Harry said, “that was driven between me and my brother.”
And things could obviously get worse for the royals in the near future. Harry could drop more bombshells in his autobiography that might further discredit his father as well. The work is to be published on January 10th. An anonymous source warned in The Sun: “The book is a lot worse than people think.” The title also suggests what is to come: “Spare” is the original (German title: “Reserve”), an allusion to “an heir and a spare” (“The Heir and the Replacement”) – probably meant in relation on heir to the throne Prince William and Harry himself.