Royals 'should've tried harder' to stop Meghan and Harry exit, says BBC expert
A Royal expert has revealed that he thinks the palace should "have tried harder" to prevent Prince Harry and his wife Meghan from exiting the royal family.
The BBC's royal and diplomatic correspondent Nicholas Witchell suggested that things might have been handled differently "in different hands" during an interview today.
In the chat, he acknowledged that "the Queen was the age she was" and "found it difficult to understand the anguish Harry was going through". He conceded that "probably it was always going to happen because he was looking for a way out".
When referencing the fallout from Prince Harry's dramatic exit, he added: "He perceived her [Meghan] as being the route out from a life that, as we now discover, he had never felt entirely comfortable with — a life to which psychologically I think he was not suited. Should the Palace have tried harder? Yes."
Nevertheless, he does not agree with the narrative that the Sussexes broadcasted in their 2021 Oprah Winfrey interview and beyond, that they were discriminated against from the very beginning. He referenced the palace's team of courtiers as bending over backwards to accommodate them.
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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge watch a flypast to mark the centenary of the Royal Air Force (Getty Images)"Meghan is clearly a very intelligent, articulate, ambitious woman, and you would have thought she would have appreciated the fact that these people were working so hard to make it work, " he said in an interview with The Times. Ultimately, he puts it down to a culture clash - and said race was not a "significant factor".
Yet he added: "It’s a huge loss to the royal family, when you think what they might have done had they been prepared to try harder and give it more time. If she had perhaps just been less impatient, less inclined to see well-meaning people as being in some way against her. It’s sad, particularly the relationship [breakdown] between Harry and William.”
Nevertheless, having read Harry's memoir Spare , he said he had more sympathy for Harry and better understood his mental health struggles. But he was not supportive of his legal battles with newspaper groups.
He said: "I think they’ve [Harry and Meghan] been overly sensitive. They are public figures, they make use of the media.
"So they should be more prepared to take the knocks with the positive moments. But that’s not their way. I think their focus has become so narrow and is so suffused with this sense of paranoia that they are failing to recognise the bigger picture, the opportunities that they have.
"They’re obsessed, he is certainly obsessed, with the way the media portrays him. Unhealthily so.”
Nevertheless, on December 9, the Duke of Sussex won his phone-hacking case against Mirror Group Newspapers and was ordered to pay £140,000.
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