When Harry and Meghan Markle left the Royal Family in 2020, it wasn’t just about a desire to stop performing their official duties and engagements. No, the Sussexes displayed their intent to say goodbye to the Firm behind entirely when they chose to leave the UK.
Some thought it would be for good, especially since their relationship with the Royal Family had seen a sharp decline. This was only exacerbated after Harry and Meghan’s Oprah interview, and all the backlash that followed.
Harry’s father, King Charles, and brother, Prince William, were angry and disappointed to say the least. Another who also had trouble accepting the couple’s actions was the late-Queen Elizabeth.
¨According to a royal expert, Her Majesty tried her best to meet the Sussexes despite the fact they had relocated to the US. If reports are to be believed, though, she was let down in one very bitter way.
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It’s been more than two years since Harry and Meghan decided to step back from the Royal Family. When they did so, they resigned from all official royal duties permanently and left the country.
Meeghan & Harry
On January 8, 2020, the couple announced the news on their official Instagram account.
“We intend to step back as ‘senior’ members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen,” Harry and Meghan said.
“We now plan to balance our time between the United Kingdom and North America, continuing to honor our duty to The Queen, the Commonwealth, and our patronages.”
Initially, it seemed like the Queen, and the rest of the royals, had accepted their decision. After all, they are human beings free to do whatever they seem to fit.
However, it didn’t take long before things turned very ugly.
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The Oprah interview turned everything on its head around regarding the Royal family, Harry, and Meghan. Firstly, the couple accused members of the Firm of questioning their son Archie’s potential skin color (before his birth). Meghan, meanwhile, lashed out during the interview, saying that she didn’t get any help from the Firm regarding her declining mental health.
Moreover, Harry spoke openly about his father, King Charles, and brother, Prince William, being “trapped” within the royal sphere. It reportedly left his family furious – and there were consequences.
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Harry and Meghan were practically closed out from the royal family. The Queen, Charles, Camilla, William, and Kate not wanting anything to do with them.
Harry’s book – Spare, details, release date
Harry’s upcoming memoir has been a talking point for a long time. Several reports have revealed that his book – published by Penguin Random House – will create new tensions between Harry and Meghan and the rest of the Royal Family.
Some say it will include sections focusing on the rift between Harry and William and the presently-strained relationship between Harry and his father, now-King Charles.
Harry’s tell-all book has been said to be an “accurate and wholly truthful” account of his life.
The ostracized Prince dropped the news that he was writing a new book four months after the Oprah interview aired.
“Prince Harry will share, for the very first time, the definitive account of the experiences, adventures, losses, and life lessons that have helped shape him,” Random House said in the press release, teasing the book as an “honest and captivating personal portrait.”
Now, new details about Harry’s book have been disclosed, and the release date is set for January 10. It will be named Spare, with Harper’s Bazaar speculating that it might address Harry’s “spare” role as the second son of a King, or that perhaps that he is being “spared” from the Royal Family now that he has left.