Charlotte Griffith, a Daily Mail reporter who has authored multiple exclusives about the Sussexes this year, including about their Netflix deal, published two articles yesterday that probably came from Sussex camp – saying that Charles and Harry are working a new deal to bring back Harry and a part-time royal to ease off the burden from William’s shoulder.

  1. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-15118105/King-Harry-meet-regularly-royal-aides-plan-unity-public-appearance-six-years-cards.html?ico=authors_pagination_mobile

  2. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-15118139/Met-Police-gave-personal-protection-Prince-Harry-visit-London-despite-legal-loss-security-detail.html?ico=authors_pagination_mobile

Following this, Daily Mail via Rebecca English, The Telegraph via Hannah Furness, and The Times via Roya Nikkah got exclusives from probably Buckingham Palace, debunking the news reported by Charlotte Griffith.

  1. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-15119981/Prince-Harry-return-working-royal-William.html

  2. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2025/09/21/king-clear-harry-cant-be-a-half-in-half-out-royal/

  3. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-family/article/king-makes-it-clear-harry-cannot-be-a-half-in-half-out-royal-3kdthnn0d

Most notable comment?

Referring to the briefings, however, a royal insider told the Daily Mail: 'Whoever is behind them seems to have mistaken a brief tea and a slice of cake for the Treaty of Versailles.'

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22 comments
  1. These stories were somewhat interesting years ago when the Sussexes left, but now it’s all kind of boring and repetitive. The royals just participated in a major state visit. You would think the media’s focus would be on that instead of trying to keep Harry and Meghan in the news.

  2. That would be quite something if the Sussexes were working with the Daily Mail.

    The Times seems to be KP’s go to when it comes to cleaning up their own messes like the franken photo. Charles and Camilla have hired Daily Mail staff.

    Was Camilla allowed into these meetings? Because I feel like people keep overlooking how much Camilla uses the press. And keep assuming she’s always going to be on the same page as Charles.

    Out of any member of the royal family, Harry definitely went for Camilla in his book. Way more than people seem to think he went for William or Kate. I can’t imagine Camilla wants to see Harry or Meghan back. And we all know how her dear friend Jeremy Clarkson feels about Meghan.

  3. Harry and Meghan don’t deal with Daily Mail as they stated in a publicly released statement a few years ago. So if it’s a daily mail reporter then it’s the palace leak, not H&M.

  4. Harry and Meghan aren’t briefing charlotte Griffith: if you actually read her articles you’ll see that she never get things right.

  5. I don’t think either side is briefing the press.

    I think it is entirely invented to fill column inches. The DM is running two conflicting lines of speculation in the hope that one of them will be proved right

  6. lol Harry and and Meghan aren’t briefing the daily mail. Just like they aren’t sending their son to Eton. That’s why the daily mail never gets anything right. Remember how they gloated for weeks about Harry and Meghan’s Netflix deal being done only to backtrack. Plus Harry still has an active case going against the mail I believe.

  7. both the DM and the Times were later updated with a statement from Harry. Something about how he’s focusing on his father but won’t comment and “source” clarifying that’s he’s not looking for HIHO.

    > A source close to Harry on Sunday night insisted, however, that the issue of whether he would return to royal life was ‘put to bed years ago’, that he is ‘very happy with his life in California’ and ‘very happy just visiting the UK as and when to support his patronages and causes’.
    They insisted that there was no plan for him to work for, or alongside, the Royal Family and that wanting to reconcile with his family privately was a different matter.

    > A spokesperson said: ‘The Duke has made it clear that “the focus has to be on his dad”, beyond that, and on any other issues as it relates to his family, we won’t be commenting.’

    But yes, I do think the Griffiths piece got a response from BP.

  8. The thing about “oh Harry would never brief the Daily Mail” is that I don’t think he views it as working with the publication. He’s working with so-and-so writer that he likes or knows or whatever.

  9. Why do you use DailyMail as a source? This us as bad as the usa and fox.

  10. Daily Mail published a story to sell the paper. Than Daily Mail published rebutal of that story to sell the paper.

    It is very much possible that both stories were not inspired by either Sessexes or Waleses.

  11. Is this William rushing to the royal rota to air his grievances?

  12. Further proof that the dailymail is trash & clickbait faux drama is what they thrive on

  13. This feels more like the royal press trying to feel out what happened with the meeting and get BP and Harry to respond. Their sources probably don’t have a good idea of what happened in the meeting either. Also a reputable newspaper wouldn’t post conflicting stories.

  14. If the fact that this is coming from the Daily Mail wasn’t enough of a bullshit warning as it is, pretending like William is somehow overburdened by the bare minimum he is doing is quite laughable. How many vacations are they up to this year alone?

    Whoever thought the average person in 2025 would feel anything resembling sympathy for William, while the rest of us are being crushed by greed and inflation and being chewed up and spit out by the gears of capitalism, grossly miscalculated.

  15. For the people in their usual denial about Harry’s work with the British media

    Charlotte Griffiths has received Sussex exclusives for a while now, starting from this article about their new office hires, she was the first to report it with extensive details, she’s gotten other exclusives since then
    [https://archive.ph/STFsb](https://archive.ph/STFsb)

    Harry has been working very openly with The Times as well (funny since it’s a Murdoch paper), Kate Mansey was the one who broke the Sentebale story as an exclusive, Harry exclusively gave her his statement about leaving before Sentebale themselves been alerted,

    Roya at The Times got a very friendly exclusive just before Harry’s recent trip to the UK that included Harry’s itinerary before it was made public, she was also one of the journalists invited to attend his engagements
    [https://archive.ph/5CwhJ](https://archive.ph/5CwhJ)

    Harry isn’t a working royal, he doesn’t have to use the royal rota, and he doesn’t, what he has done is create his own royal rota within the big one, where only friendly journalist are given access, these are some of the journalists/publications he invited made by OP in another post, several of them has gotten sources and exclusives along with the invite

    1. Matt Wilkinson from The Sun (**owned by Rupert Murdoch**)
    2. Cameron Walker from GB News
    3. The Times **(another Murdoch owned)**
    4. Hello
    5. Town and Country
    6. Russell Myers from The Mirror
    7. BBC (obviously)
    8. Simon Perry from People
    9. Chris Ship from ITV
    10. Tom Sykes
    11. Victoria Ward from The Telegraph
    12. Rhiannon Mills from Sky News

    Harry happily and openly works with the British media, he always has

  16. I don’t really believe this. I think they’re fishing for something because they know nothing about Charles and Harry’s meeting.

  17. I am so bored of this story being rehashed every month for the past six years. Yawn.

  18. Unless another news outlet that’s more reputable than DM writes about this, to me it’s all bullshit.

  19. Not gonna click on any of these links from toxic media but they are so obsessed with Harry

    It feels like the royal family is boring without Harry.

    Willy does not want to work..

  20. I don’t think Harry leaked anything. He actually has the guts to put his name to the things he says, unlike King Tampon, Queen Sidepiece and the rest of them. But if he did, Charles leaked a bunch about the meeting already in a failed attempt to make himself look like a halfway decent father, and turnabout is fair play.

  21. The Royal news for the next year…and the years after that…

    – Harry wants to come back and be a working Royal

    – William is still mad with Harry

    – Catherine looked beautiful at some event

    – Harry is about to go bankrupt

    – Charles and Camilla at some event

    – Harry and Meghan are about to divorce

    – Something dodgy about Prince Andrew or Sarah Ferguson, or both

    – William at football

    – Harry and Meghans businesses are a failure

    On repeat again and again. I have been reading this story about William wanting to be a working Royal again for the last five years, when it was clear even before Meghan, he was desperate to leave.

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