Four years ago, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced their resignation from royal duties in a way that shocked the world, and no one could ** what will happen next. However, their choices seem to have paid a price, and many of their relationships with royal relatives began to break down from that day on.
Over the past four years, they've signed multimillion-dollar deals with the likes of Netflix, conducted shocking interviews with Oprah Winfrey, and Harry has released controversial autobiographies. Harry, in particular, seems to find that his family ties with certain relatives have become more precarious than ever.
In terms of his relationship with his father, King Charles, Harry used to have a good relationship with him. However, in a ** sex interview with Oprah Winfrey, everything fell apart. In this chat revealing the inside story, Harry accused his father of cutting him off financially and claimed that he was no longer picking up his **. Harry said in March 2021: "My family has completely cut me off financially. ”
There was also a fuse, and another point of conflict came in the late Queen's final moments at Balmoral House, her beloved Scottish Highland residence. When Harry and Meghan happened to be on a charity visit to the UK, the queen's health deteriorated, and members of the royal family rushed to her side.
Among them were Prince William, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward and his wife Sophie, who flew from London to Scotland. Harry flew on another private jet and wrote in his memoir, Spare, that he was told that his wife, Meghan, should not go with him because William's wife, Kate, would not go either.
His father, he wrote, told him he could come to the Balmoral mansion, "but he didn't want to." She comes". "He began to state his reasons, which were ridiculous and disrespectful, and I could not tolerate them," he explained. Don't talk about my wife in that way. He stammered an apology, saying he just didn't want a lot of people around. None of the other people's wives came, he said, so Meghan shouldn't have come either.
Relationships also went awry last year when Charles asked Harry and Meghan to leave their home in the UK, Frogmore Villa. But in November, despite the distance, Harry's relationship with his father appeared to improve. It was revealed that the Duke of Sussex congratulated the king on his father's 75th birthday on November 14.
The Duke of Sussex called his "dad" after the king's day of activities, although the father and son had barely spoken to each other for months. Royal sources said it could have been a "pleasant surprise" for the king as he hadn't heard Harry's ** or message in a long time.
After that, it was reported that Charles was still happy to hear from Harry, who he cherished very much and had a "dear boy" to confide in. Invitations have reportedly been opened for when the two will meet in the UK, and plans are scheduled to talk again soon. However, just a few weeks later, Harry and Meghan's relationship with royal relatives came under renewed scrutiny thanks to the release of Omid Scobie's sex book Endgame, which sparked a royal race controversy.
However, Harry may have run out of wiggle room with his older brother, Prince William. Recently, the relationship between the two brothers has been very strained, and in a sexual interview with Oprah Winfrey, Harry reflected that they are on "different paths".
But their relationship deteriorated after Harry publicly blamed his brother in a double confession: his autobiography "Spare" and their Netflix documentary. In Harry's autobiography, which was published a few months after the death of the former queen, Harry accused William of hitting him during an argument about Meghan and pushing him down in a dog bowl.
In the Netflix series two months after the Queen's death, Harry and Meghan claimed that Kensington Palace lied to protect William, denying that William had bullied Harry into quitting the royal family. Harry also wrote that shortly after Prince Philip's funeral, at a tense meeting in Windsor, Charles begged his two sons to say: "Please, children, don't let my last years turn into misery".
On the first anniversary of the late Queen's death, both brothers were in the UK, and Harry crossed the Atlantic back to his native California to attend a charity ceremony. However, he did not pay tribute to his grandmother alone at Windsor Castle alone.
Royal expert Jenny Bond previously told The Sun: "I'm sure William is still in love with Harry, but I don't think he can find a solution to the dispute. I don't think Meghan will ever be welcomed back into the royal family again, nor do I think she will want to be welcomed back. I suspect that William's thoughts about them will only flash through his mind for a split second, and then he may try to erase those thoughts. ”
However, not only did Harry launch an attack on William, he also commented on the personal details of the rift between Kate and his wife Meghan.
Harry did not leave any criticism for Kate, revealing private details of her feud with Meghan. He also described Kate's "displeased expression" after Meghan borrowed her lip gloss, and the two princesses having an argument over Meghan's claim that Kate was "brain-dead after childbirth" after Prince Louis was born.
Jenny Bond said Kate was attacked by Harry and Meghan, hurt and insulted, and the dispute between them is unlikely to be repaired anytime soon. She told OK!Magazine: "When you come from a happy and united family, like Kate, it's hard to understand why people become distant. ”
I think she believes the dispute can be repaired, and after Prince Philip's funeral, we saw her talking to Harry and clearly encouraging William to do the same. But we now know that it didn't work. ”
According to experts, Kate is hurt and humiliated by Harry and Meghan's attack, and the dispute between them is unlikely to be resolved anytime soon.
Now, four years after Harry and Meghan's decision to leave the royal family to work, their relationship with royal relatives remains complicated. Despite some signs of détente, their relationship with King Charles, Prince William and Princess Kate seems irreparable. However, their relationship with Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie still seems to remain close. It seems that this turmoil in the royal family will continue to attract attention.