{"id":218034,"date":"2025-06-27T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T07:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/218034\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T07:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T07:30:11","slug":"tom-cruise-has-picked-a-royal-side-and-its-not-harry-and-meghans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/218034\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise has picked a royal side, and it&#8217;s not Harry and Meghan&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/prince-harry\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Prince Harry\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a> and <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/meghan-markle\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Meghan Markle\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan Markle<\/a> are reportedly feeling snubbed by <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/tom-cruise\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Tom Cruise,\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Cruise,<\/a> who has grown increasingly close with the senior members of the British royal family, per Knewz.com.<\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/BRITAIN-MOVIE-CULTURE-F1-THE-MOVIE-75_1751006074351_1751006098490.jpg\" alt=\"Prince Harry and Meghan Markle feel snubbed by Tom Cruise, who has bonded with the British royal family. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS \/ AFP)(AFP)\" title=\"Prince Harry and Meghan Markle feel snubbed by Tom Cruise, who has bonded with the British royal family. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS \/ AFP)(AFP)\"\/>   Prince Harry and Meghan Markle feel snubbed by Tom Cruise, who has bonded with the British royal family. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS \/ AFP)(AFP)    <\/p>\n<p>The Mission: Impossible star has formed a strong bond with Prince William and Kate Middleton in recent years. He even escorted the couple to the London premiere of Top Gun: Maverick in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTom has clearly picked sides in the Harry and Meghan versus the Royal Family feud \u2013 and he\u2019s picked right,\u201d a source told Knewz.com. \u201cHe is well in with the royals and has become an honorary Brit in the process as he spends so much time there making his movies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ|<\/strong> <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/prince-harry-has-chalked-out-a-plan-to-return-to-the-royal-fold-insiders-say-its-never-happening-101750985290863.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Prince Harry has chalked out a plan to return to the Royal fold, insiders say it&#039;s \u2018never happening\u2019\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry has chalked out a plan to return to the Royal fold, insiders say it&#8217;s \u2018never happening\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no way he would want to jeopardize those kind of connections by paling up with no-marks like Meghan and Harry \u2013 who the royals hate anyway,\u201d the source added.<\/p>\n<p> Tom Cruise would never appear on Meghan\u2019s podcast<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest Harry and Meghan, since stepping away from royal duties in 2020, had reached out to Cruise with the hope of featuring him on Meghan\u2019s podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no chance Tom would even consider doing her pod. They are way down the list of people he wants to connect with,\u201d another insider claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Cruise\u2019s connection to the UK has only deepened in recent years<\/p>\n<p>The Top Gun star relocated to England, found a rhythm with British film crews, and gained official recognition as a British Film Institute fellow. \u201cHe privately credits his professional relocation to England for this success,\u201d said a source close to the star, per Knewz.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t Scientology vibes or anything like that, it\u2019s hard facts,\u201d the insider continued. \u201cThey [British film crews] have made his wildest dreams come true for many years now, and that\u2019s why he insists on making movies over there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ| <\/strong>F<a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/htcity\/cinema\/f1-director-teases-top-gun-3-details-reveals-tom-cruises-future-in-the-franchise-there-s-one-last-ride-101750939676124.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"1 director teases Top Gun 3 details, reveals Tom Cruise&#039;s future in the franchise: \u2018There\u2019s one last ride\u2019\" rel=\"noopener\">1 director teases Top Gun 3 details, reveals Tom Cruise&#8217;s future in the franchise: \u2018There\u2019s one last ride\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Cruise has been reportedly dating \u00a0Ana de Armas. \u201cHe\u2019s been in hot pursuit for a long time, and she\u2019s warmed to him, and why wouldn\u2019t she? He\u2019s perhaps one of, if not the most powerful and bankable stars in the world,\u201d a source shared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are reportedly feeling snubbed by Tom Cruise, who has grown increasingly close with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,533,1281,447,532,5105,7710,519,448,15763],"class_list":{"0":"post-218034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-kate-middleton","10":"tag-meghan-markle","11":"tag-prince-harry","12":"tag-prince-william","13":"tag-royal","14":"tag-royal-families","15":"tag-royal-family","16":"tag-royals","17":"tag-tom-cruise"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114754160211239221","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}