Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have come under fire from a Royal commentator who has accused them of “relentlessly” attacking the royals, labeling one of their actions as “toxic and destructive”.
Since their dramatic exit from the Royal Family in 2020, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have made numerous allegations against the monarchy. The Montecito-based couple has shared insights into their experiences with the Royal Family through interviews, their self-titled Netflix docuseries, and the Duke’s 2023 memoir, “Spare”.
However, some of their most contentious claims emerged during their notorious Oprah Winfrey interview in 2021.
During the interview with Oprah, Harry and Meghan leveled various accusations, touching on reasons for leaving the UK, concerns over Archie’s skin tone, Meghan’s mental health struggles, and the lack of support from the institution as to why they left the royal family.
Jack Royston, Newsweek’s Royal correspondent, has voiced criticism of the pair in a recent discussion about the possibility of them revealing more startling revelations in the future. Speaking to The Sun, he remarked, “The problem is with the way Harry and Meghan piled in quite relentlessly on the royals.”
He continued, particularly taking issue with the Oprah interview, “Particularly, I do think the Oprah interview, they did botch it… it could have been done differently and better in a way that would be less toxic and destructive. The racism allegation, they have clearly tried to change it retrospectively or row it back. So, obviously, Meghan botched how she described that story.”, reports the Express.
Royston also suggested that any further bombshells from the Sussexes might not carry much weight anymore, as the public could simply disregard them.
He elaborated, “But there’s always been this thing that Meghan’s kind of intimated that she’s got receipt, that was in the days after Oprah, one of her friends went on ITV and said, ‘we’ve got the receipts to prove everything’.
“So, she’s always had this tendency to give these kind of slightly veiled threats that she’s sitting on this bombshell. They’ve always been floating these ideas that they’re sitting on a kind of a massive nuclear warhead that they can drop at any point.”
However, he noted, “Ultimately, they destroyed themselves by the way they basically relentlessly attacked Harry’s own family in a context where no one was fighting back. And so, they may well still be sitting on unused material that Harry says he’ll never share.
“But it doesn’t matter anymore because even if they did, they’re so uniformly viewed as the villains, particularly in Britain, but even in America, they’re not viewed in this protective way anymore.”