Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have left King Charles devastated with a significant announcement. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex made their relationship public just moments after informing Harry's father. According to royal experts, King Charles received only 20 minutes' notice about the announcement from his son Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Royal authors Omid Scobie and Caroline Durand, who wrote "Finding Freedom" and are believed to be close to the Sussexes, revealed that the announcement came during a sensitive period. At the time, Prince Charles was preparing to meet the King of Bahrain and made a sensitive tour of the Gulf country. His team had spent months organizing the tour, hoping it would receive extensive media coverage.
However, Charles was crushed when Harry and Meghan not only publicly confirmed their relationship but also took a swipe at the press. The authors claimed that Harry gave his father just a 20-minute heads-up before issuing a statement confirming his relationship with Meghan.
The statement from Kensington Palace condemned the press while simultaneously confirming Harry's new relationship, which was feared to overshadow Prince Charles's tour of the Gulf. According to the Mirror, it was a critical moment that had been months in the making.
In their book, royal authors Omid Scobie and Caroline Durand also revealed that Prince Harry often wondered whether people judged them based on race or smugness. Harry allegedly cut ties with a friend over gossip about Meghan and was ready to go into an all-out battle with the media.
Despite this, the book confirms that Prince Charles understood that the situation with Meghan had reached a point of no return. Although he was disappointed by the timing of his son's statement, the relationship between the future king and his younger son deteriorated over time following Harry's decision to step down from royal duties and his subsequent criticism of the monarchy.
In a few days, Harry will travel to London to attend a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games. He is scheduled to attend a Thanksgiving mass at St. Paul's Cathedral on Wednesday, May 8th, where he is expected to deliver a reading. Whether he will meet his father is still uncertain.
The last time they saw each other was when Harry took a quick trip to the UK in February after the public announcement of the royal's cancer diagnosis. However, the visit was short, with Harry spending just 24 hours in his home country and only 45 minutes with his father.
Speculation of reconciliation between Prince Harry and his brother, Prince William, has been dismissed by insiders. Sources close to the situation revealed to The Daily Beast that both sides clearly understand each other's position now. William and Catherine felt completely betrayed by Harry's memoirs, and they are not talking to Harry and Meghan. They are certainly not about to start, especially when Catherine is at her most vulnerable.
