The final blow finally delivered by Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle was nothing to fear for the Windsor royal family. According to royal experts, there is no longer an operational "nuclear button" for the pair of former royals who settled in California to press.
Since their dramatic retirement from royal duties in 2020, the Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle have been making a fuss by dropping "truth bombs" across the Atlantic on the British establishment. One of the most impactful revelations came earlier this year, when Prince Harry suggested that certain members of the royal family had made "racist" remarks about their son's skin color before Archie was born.
While Prince Harry and Meghan Markle did not name names, many believe the remarks were directed at senior royals like Prince William or even King Charles himself. This insinuation has put the royal family in a difficult position, especially when King Charles has just ascended the throne. This is effectively their last "nuclear option", an existential threat to the Windsor royal family, which they can detonate at any time by publicly identifying the alleged racists.
However, according to sources, this means of deterrence has been exhausted and there is no turning back.
Last month, Dutch journalist Ton den Hertog confirmed that the person behind the racist remarks was Prince William's private secretary at the time, reportedly a member of the "senior" family — who was not as senior as they had previously claimed.
Royal expert Charlotte Griffiths said: "It's a big deal, an absolute trump card for them, and now they've shown their cards with some negligible accusations. ”
Unless they're going to accuse Grandma or Daddy himself next, I don't see anything else they can really do to the detriment of this institution. ”
King Charles seems to have debunked their bravado. While Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's biographer, Omid Scobie — whom Griffiths calls their personal "press secretary" — insisted the truth was true, Buckingham Palace remained silent on the matter, refusing to confirm or deny any of the sensationalist claims made by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
People familiar with the matter said King Charles was tired of being emotionally hijacked by the couple and their ** people who continued to leak news across the Atlantic. Despite his insistence on family unity in public, in private, Charles has gone beyond his young son's manipulative attempts to "blackmail" the royal family by appealing to mourning and victim status.
Sources noted that Charles appeared to be visibly "exhausted" by the ongoing drama, like a parent who is tired of a wayward child's tantrums. He knows that prolonging contact will only bring more suffering, so his strategy now is "protective disengagement" – keeping the royal family away from their sowing discord while extending an olive branch if they wish to reconcile in a calm phase.
For the first time since Meghan's Brexit (Megixt), the royal family can breathe a sigh of relief because the couple doesn't have any trump cards to play. While Scobie and their friends at Netflix will certainly continue to make statements to prolong their fame for 15 minutes, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have run out of their biggest bomb and revealed that the target is only paper tigers, not dragons as they once suggested.
Now, families and the public have become increasingly suspicious of further accusations, without hard evidence or specific names. Their strategy of constant procrastination and ambiguity has finally reached the point of diminishing returns. With a recession looming, and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle facing sponsorship cuts, brands cutting spending, will increasingly struggle to secure funding in their PR wars with powerful royals.
Thus, for the Windsor family, who had taken refuge under Charles's steadfast leadership, it seemed that the threat of nuclear radiation had finally disappeared. They saw through the Sussexes' bluff and survived relatively unscathed, with the crown still firmly on the heads of father and son. Barring an unexpected scandal, the story of the royal race's controversy is over – despite Prince Harry and Meghan Markle doing everything in their power to try to overthrow their rule with unsubstantiated accusations with unsubstantiated accusations.
Perhaps now, for the sake of the royal family and its future, all parties can move forward in a spirit of reconciliation rather than revenge and reduce verbal conflict. But for now, the Windsors can rest easy knowing that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's detonator appears to have been completely defused, leaving only a wisp of smoke and the existential threat that once dangerously hung over the palace wall has gone. The Windsor royal family has managed to survive yet another challenge after centuries of domination – they have become smarter and have nothing to fear about depleted nuclear forces from the Atlantic. The crown is still safely in the hands of those who rightfully deserve it.