{"id":266338,"date":"2025-07-16T10:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T10:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266338\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T10:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T10:18:10","slug":"royal-family-live-meghan-and-harry-sabotaging-own-olive-branch-after-secret-peace-talks-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266338\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family LIVE: Meghan and Harry &#8216;sabotaging own olive branch&#8217; after secret peace talks | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A so-called peace summit between representatives of the Duke of Sussex and King Charles has triggered a fresh wave of scrutiny, with one expert accusing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a> of sabotaging his own reconciliation effort.<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ericschiffer?lang=en\">Eric Schiffer<\/a>, royal reputation strategist and chairman of Reputation Management Consultants, criticised the optics of the visit, which reportedly included a private meeting between aides of the Sussexes and the King.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cIf this is a peace deal, why does every shutter click crack like a gunshot at the Firm\u2019s credibility\u2014turning a solemn summit into the potential for septic muck reputational carnage?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Shiffer suggested King Charles sent with a small, trusted team, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a>, now based in California with wife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/meghan-markle\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan Markle<\/a> and their two children, had &#8220;unleashed paparazzi&#8221;, adding: &#8220;Charles craves calm; Harry brings carnival barkers with cameras&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cGuess who swaggered away looking regal and who looked like clickbait chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Schiffer added: \u201cThe Sussex \u2018olive branch\u2019 came bolted to a flimsy PR selfie stick\u2014and it shattered into smithereens the instant the merciless cameras flashed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He warned the approach could backfire badly: \u201cCrisis comms 101\u2014don\u2019t torch your own olive branch; Harry just napalmed his.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A so-called peace summit between representatives of the Duke of Sussex and King Charles has triggered a fresh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,1760,518,1281,101518,447,101517,519,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-266338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-king-charles","10":"tag-king-charles-iii","11":"tag-meghan-markle","12":"tag-paparazzi-controversy","13":"tag-prince-harry","14":"tag-reconciliation-effort","15":"tag-royal-family","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114862404656213927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266338","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=266338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}