In the United States, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have begun a new life. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex quit the royal family many years ago, but the aftermath has stunned them. In their shocking Oprah interview and Harry’s book Spare, Harry and Meghan leveled various accusations and personal attacks against the royal family, including questioning Archie’s skin tone before he was born.
Without a question, the royals’ relationship with the Sussexes has reached an all-time low. Harry was present at King Charles’ coronation, although little appears to have changed between him and William, for example. Amidst all of this, it is claimed that Charles made every attempt to encourage Meghan and was the only royal to contact her and Harry after the Oprah interview.
Unfortunately, Meghan revealed that she attempted suicide as a working royal, and Charles wrote her a letter about it. Meghan was not pleased with the then-prince’s response, and rumors said that it had a big impact on a critical decision.
Harry and Meghan’s past is extensive. After meeting at a tennis tournament in London in 2016, the couple began dating, and their romance swiftly grew. However, some of Meghan’s friends predicted that she would be unhappy with him before they married.
Meghan revealed in a 2019 ITV interview that some of her friends had even warned her against marrying Harry because of the expected media attention.
“I never thought this would be easy, but I thought it would be fair, and that’s the part that’s really hard to reconcile,” the Duchess continued. She went on, “I’ve been telling H—that’s what I call [Harry]—for a long time that simply surviving something is insufficient. That isn’t the purpose of existence. You must prosper and have happiness.
Harry and Meghan married in a magnificent ceremony at St. George’s Chapel on May 19, 2018.
It was clear at the time that Meghan had been accepted by the royal family. Especially King Charles, who treated the Duchess so kindly during the event despite the fact that her father was not invited.
King Charles accompanied Meghan down the aisle at her wedding.
According to royal biographer Robert Hardman, Charles inquired about Meghan’s desire to be led down the aisle by him. According to Hardman in Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II, Charles received a speedy response, but it did not meet his expectations.
Meghan took the now-King off guard when she requested to meet her halfway down the aisle. She wanted to enter the chapel alone and make a spectacular impression.
The Prince of Wales offered to intercede, expressing his love for his future daughter-in-law and declaring that he would be delighted to accompany Meghan to the altar and up the aisle of St. George’s Chapel. One acquaintance stated that he was not fully prepared for the response, “Can we meet halfway?” Hardman wrote.
“This demonstrated that the woman making the grand entrance wasn’t a blushing bride, but rather a self-assured and self-reliant individual.”
In the 2018 BBC documentary Prince, Son, and Heir, Harry acknowledged his father’s readiness to accompany his bride to her wedding. At first, Harry claimed to have consulted his father about it, and Charles had immediately given his assent.
I believe he anticipated my request since he immediately responded, “Yes, of course, I’ll do whatever Meghan needs and I’m here to support you,” when I made it. Harry remembered.
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Because he is our father, he will certainly be there for us, so for him, this is an excellent opportunity to step up and express his support.
Meghan Markle said that a “unnamed royal” commented on Archie’s skin tone.
Harry and Meghan began publicly assaulting the royal family a year after their departure, which was surprising given their wedding day.
Meanwhile, the Duchess revealed a number of surprising revelations during her interview with Oprah, including how an unnamed royal made a remark about Archie’s skin tone.
During the months I was pregnant, roughly around this time. Meghan Markle recalled: “So we have conversations and worries about how dark his skin might be when he’s born, in addition to the conversation that he won’t be given security or a title.”
Meghan believed that as a working royal, she had to endure a great deal of sexism, racism, and media harassment. Her mental health deteriorated, and as previously said, she felt abandoned by members of the royal family.
Meghan had enough of it to become suicidal.
“I just couldn’t see a way out of it. I used to sit awake at night thinking, “I don’t understand how all of this is being produced.” Again, I wasn’t noticing it, but when my mother or friends express it or phone me in tears, it’s almost worse because you feel like, “Meg, they’re not protecting you.” She said, “And I realized that everything was happening just because I was breathing.”
Given Harry’s level of anguish, I was embarrassed to reveal it to him. I was also really embarrassed to say it at the time. However, I was aware that if I remained silent, I would follow through on it. I simply did not want to live anymore. Meghan went on, “And that was a very real, very obvious, and very scary notion all the time.”
Meghan did not witness the coronation of King Charles.
And I remember how he just held me in his arms. I went to the institution and told them I needed to receive some help. “I need to go somewhere because I’ve never felt this way before,” I said. I was told that it wouldn’t benefit the institution and that I couldn’t do it.
The Sussexes’ connection with the royal family quickly deteriorated, and many members of The Firm were outraged by the allegations brought against them.
According to sources, Princess Eugenie is the only royal who has traveled to California to visit Harry, Meghan, and their two children, Archie and Lilibet. Meanwhile, Harry and Meghan have only returned to the UK on rare occasions; the Duchess returned only once, in 2022, to attend Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.
One of the primary topics of discussion during King Charles’ coronation in Westminster Abbey last May was whether Harry and Meghan would attend or even be invited.
The king would eventually decide whether or not to welcome the two, despite the fact that they had lost the majority of the royal family’s trust at that moment.
Harry ultimately decided to attend his father’s coronation, while Meghan stayed in the United States to care for Archie and Lilibet.
Perhaps it is not surprising that Harry attended the coronation. But he left for the airport and returned to his wife shortly after the wedding. There are speculations that certain royals were relieved that Harry did not join them for the coronation lunch.
They even pictured Harry and Meghan sitting far back in Westminster Abbey, away from the rest of the family, if she showed up.
Meghan Markle wrote Charles a letter after her appearance on Oprah.
As previously announced, Meghan Markle remained in the United States to care for her two children. But, given that Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland, is known to help her with the children when things become stressful, is there another possible rationale for Meghan’s refusal to accompany her husband to the UK?
There is, according to a piece in The Telegraph from April of last year. Meghan elected to write a letter to Prince Charles, outlining her concerns about unconscious bias following the Oprah interview.
Later, King Charles, who was then a prince, chose to respond to Meghan by lamenting the family’s disputes, notably those between Harry and Meghan and the rest of The Firm.
Charles was also reported to be the only senior royal relative that contacted the Duchess after the Oprah interview.
The Telegraph article contained new material, including Meghan’s admission to Charles that her purpose was to discuss unconscious bias rather than accuse the royal family of racism.
There were reports that Meghan Markle wouldn’t attend the coronation. Rumor had it that the Duchess was furious that Charles had not addressed her concerns about unconscious bias in his letter, which was the real reason she had turned up today.
A spokesperson for Meghan Markle rejected any coronation speculations.
Later, a spokeswoman for Meghan dismissed the claims as “ridiculous.”
The Duchess of Sussex is enjoying her life in the present, unconcerned with letters she received two years ago or conversations she had four years before. Anything to the contrary is false and completely ludicrous. Meghan’s spokesman told People Magazine, “We encourage tabloid media and various royal correspondents to stop the exhausting circus that they alone are creating.”
In an ITV interview in early 2023, Harry decided to address the matter of alleged racism among the royal family, assuring the reporter that he did not believe they were.
Harry answered, “No.” “Is that what the British press said? Has Meghan ever stated that “they’re racists”?
“There is a distinction to be made between racism and unconscious bias. When your unconscious prejudice is recognized or brought to your attention as an individual, as opposed to an institution, you have the chance to develop and learn from it. Otherwise, racism is categorized as unconscious bias, he continued.
