Prince Harry: That’s how brother William was reacting to ‘Megxit’ at the time
Updated on 12/15/2022, 00:00
- In 2020, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have turned their backs on the royal family.
- In the second part of their Netflix documentary, Harry and Meghan describe how they saw it.
- The Duke of Sussex also reveals how “horrified” his brother William’s reaction to the resignation was at the time: “My brother yelled at me.”
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The dispute between Meghan and Father Thomas Markle
“He did interviews on me. It was so traumatic. And the world saw this drama,” Megan said. “Then he criticized the royal family, it was embarrassing for them. It should have stopped, I should have checked.”
The Duchess of Sussex said she asked
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“After that we sought independent legal advice,” Harry said. When they sued the tabloid over the letter, “everything changed,” Megan explains in the documentary: “That lawsuit was the catalyst for everything that followed.”
Harry and Meghan’s plans
The couple began to think about how to structure their relationship with the institution “in a way that would protect us and be psychologically compatible for us.” Then he called his father, Charles, in late December, early January, Harry said, to say they were moving to Canada and could continue their Commonwealth work from there. According to Harry, they wanted to take up duties in Canada on behalf of the Queen and support themselves financially.
The Duke of Sussex also revealed: “In 2018 we actually considered moving to New Zealand. Nothing happened. In early 2019 we planned to go to South Africa.” The Palace approved the South African project.
“My father’s office, my brother’s office, and my grandmother knew about it. Nobody else did. It was an internal document. But it was leaked to the Times. Then the whole plan was scrapped because it was now being discussed publicly.”
to retreat
On a flight back from Canada to London in early January 2020, Harry received an urgent message, Meghan recalls: The Queen had canceled a previously agreed meeting with the couple. In the afternoon, they learned “our plan was going to be published. And the tabloids somehow got it.”
“His father said he sent it to me in writing. Five days later it was on the front page,” Megan explains to the camera. “Obviously the foundation wanted to leak it that we wanted to move to Canada,” Harry adds. “Our plans and our lives were literally taken from our hands,” he continues.
“So we have decided to announce that unfortunately we will be retiring,” Meghan continued. We will not resign but we will limit our role.” Harry dismisses the fact that the Queen was surprised by the statement posted on Instagram: “I would never have surprised my grandmother, I respect her a lot for that.”
Harry: “My brother yelled at me”
He says a meeting with the family proposed by Harry has been turned down. This was only arranged after Meghan’s return to Canada. So she couldn’t be there, claims the Duke of Sussex.
At the subsequent meeting at Sandringham, several options were proposed to him, “from all in, no change, to a complete out. I chose the third, half in, half out. We had our own tasks, but we shall also do it in the name of the Queen of Labour.”
But it soon became clear, Harry continues, that that wasn’t even moot. “It was horrible. My brother was yelling at me. My father was saying things that weren’t true. And my grandmother sat quietly and listened.
You have to understand that from a family’s perspective, and especially theirs, things are handled a certain way. Because their highest commitment is to maintain the enterprise. If the people around her say that this proposal will be seen as an attack on the establishment, she will follow the advice she was given.” The meeting ended without a concrete plan.
Bad mood when Harry and Meghan say goodbye
In March 2020, Meghan and Harry completed their farewell week in Great Britain, concluding with other family members at Westminster Abbey. Harry says of the event that they were nervous: “You feel like you’re in a soap opera where other people see you as a treat.”
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He adds, “I felt the distance between myself and the rest of my family, and that was interesting because it’s mostly about looks, not real feelings. But it looked and I felt cold.”
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Streaming portal Netflix released the second part of the eagerly awaited “Harry & Meghan” documentary series on Thursday. (photo: IMAGO/Cover-Images/startraksphoto/Janet Meyer)
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