{"id":575770,"date":"2026-07-08T21:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/575770\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T21:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:30:12","slug":"prince-harry-better-off-without-meghan-markle-after-chaotic-uk-trip-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/575770\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry &#8216;better off without Meghan Markle&#8217; after chaotic UK trip | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry\u2019s main aim for his visit is to mark the one year to go until the Invictus Games in Birmingham. The King\u2019s younger son was due to be joined by his wife, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/meghan-markle\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meghan Markle<\/a>, and their two children; however, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2225481\/meghan-markle-uk-return\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Sussex family pulled out<\/a> at the eleventh hour due to security concerns. Now, a PR expert has weighed in on why it\u2019s better that Harry\u2019s wife has not accompanied him to London this week.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Ede, a Brand and Culture expert, told the Daily Express: \u201cMeghan choosing not to accompany <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prince Harry<\/a> to the UK is probably the smartest move for both her personal brand and the Invictus Games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe focus should always be on the competitors, the veterans and the extraordinary stories of resilience that make Invictus such an important event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ede said that the duchess \u201cinevitably\u201d attracts attention wherever she attends, and that without her, Harry is more likely to shift the spotlight where it belongs: on the veterans.<\/p>\n<p>He explained: \u201cWhenever Meghan attends, the conversation inevitably shifts towards what she&#8217;s wearing, body language, family tensions and the state of the Sussexes&#8217; relationship with the Royal Family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout her there, Harry has a better chance of putting the spotlight back where it belongs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is still unclear whether the Duchess will attend any of the scheduled engagements during Harry\u2019s trip.<\/p>\n<p>While it was understood that she would not be joining him in London, there was still a chance that she could travel with him to events elsewhere, including Birmingham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry\u2019s main aim for his visit is to mark the one year to go until the Invictus Games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,16683,106527,106529,106528,19,17,5091,76192,245252,5092,126370,182105,126366,245251,105848],"class_list":["post-575770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-harry","tag-harry-and-meghan","tag-harry-and-meghan-latest","tag-harry-and-meghan-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-meghan-markle","tag-meghan-markle-news","tag-meghan-markle-visit","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-harry-latest","tag-prince-harry-latest-news","tag-prince-harry-news","tag-prince-harry-visit","tag-royal-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}