Prince Philip unaware of Meghan and Harry procrastination? Nay
Prince Philip, although exhausted in the last weeks before his death, was fully aware of the tensions shaking the royal family because of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.
Prince Philip died on Friday April 9 in the midst of family melodrama. If he was hospitalized in early March, he was fully aware of the catastrophic consequences of Meghan and Harry's interview with Oprah Winfrey for those close to him. According to Gyles Brandreth, royal biographer and friend of the Duke of Edinburgh, he was even deeply "saddened" that the royal family, his family, had become a "soap opera" in recent months. Prince Philip was a "pioneer" when it comes to interviewing. He was even the first royalty to be interviewed on television. “He was always talking about what he did and not who he was,” Gyles Brandreth told the That's After Life podcast.
In the interview with Oprah Windrey, broadcast on CBS on March 7, Meghan and Harry spoke a lot, and most importantly, about themselves, the unhappiness they had felt before leaving the royal family and the relentlessness of the British tabloids. They were a thousand miles from the motto "never complain, never explain" to which Prince Philip held. One of his principles of communication was the following: “Don't talk about yourself, nobody cares,” explained Gyles Brandreth.
Harry consumed with guilt
Prince Harry has always been very close to his grandfather. The moments of complicity between them during their appearances in public were not rare. But since his marriage to Meghan Markle, and even more since moving to North America, their relationship had deteriorated. Prince Philip had been hurt that his grandson could flee across the Atlantic and betray the royal family. Because of this, Harry couldn't say goodbye to his grandfather. A regret that gnaws at him. A witness told US Weekly recently that the Duke of Sussex felt "guilty" for not having been there in person to say goodbye to him.
