{"id":333379,"date":"2025-08-10T14:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T14:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/333379\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T14:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T14:52:09","slug":"meghan-markle-left-in-tears-over-prince-williams-statement-heres-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/333379\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle ‘left in tears’ over Prince Williams statement. Here’s what happened"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meghan Markle was reportedly left in tears after a palace statement \u2013 released without Prince Harry\u2019s approval \u2013 appeared to protect Prince William while leaving the Duke and Duchess of Sussex feeling abandoned by \u2018The Firm\u2019.<\/p>\n

The emotional incident, discussed in the Sussexes\u2019 Netflix series \u2018Harry & Meghan\u2019, shines a light on a major moment in the brothers\u2019 now fractured relationship. Prince Harry claimed that a joint statement denying reports that Prince William had “bullied” him and Meghan<\/a> out of the Royal Family was issued using his name\u2014without his consent.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it,\u201d Harry said in the documentary. \u201cNo one had asked me permission.\u201d After he told Meghan about the statement, she \u201cburst into floods of tears\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n

The joint statement was released shortly after a story surfaced claiming William\u2019s actions were part of the reason behind Harry and Meghan\u2019s decision to step down as senior royals and move to the United States.<\/p>\n

Harry went on to express his frustration that the Palace, in his view, was quick to protect his brother\u2019s reputation but refused to correct what he describes as false stories about him and Meghan over the years.<\/p>\n

“For three years, they were never willing to tell the truth to protect us,\u201d he said, \u201cyet within four hours, they were happy to lie to protect my brother.”<\/p>\n

The fallout has added to what many royal watchers call one of the most painful rifts in modern royal history. Once united by their shared grief over the loss of their mother, Diana, Princes William and Harry are now living very separate lives\u2014William<\/a> in the UK, and Harry in California with Meghan and their two children – Archie and Lilibet.<\/p>\n

Despite the ongoing tensions, there are signs of a slow effort to rebuild connections. According to The Mail on Sunday, Harry\u2019s senior UK communications adviser Liam Maguire and his top US aide Meredith Maines flew in to London recently for informal talks with King Charles’s top media official, Tobyn Andreae. The meeting was reportedly casual, held over drinks, with no set agenda.<\/p>\n

A source close to the meeting said, \u201cThere\u2019s a long road ahead, but a channel of communication is now open for the first time in years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether these early talks will lead to a lasting peace between the Sussexes and the rest of the Royal Family remains to be seen. For now, the emotional wounds appear to still run deep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle was reportedly left in tears after a palace statement \u2013 released without Prince Harry\u2019s approval \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,119480,7721,7719,8009,533,1281,119478,1488,447,2655,2832,119477,532,8691,8606,2831,7710,519,71351,119479,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-333379","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-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-ducchess-of-sussex","12":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","13":"tag-duke-of-sussex","14":"tag-harry-and-meghan","15":"tag-kate-middleton","16":"tag-meghan-markle","17":"tag-meghan-markle-left-in-tears-over-prince-williams-statement","18":"tag-meghan-markle-news","19":"tag-prince-harry","20":"tag-prince-harry-news","21":"tag-prince-of-wales","22":"tag-prince-willia","23":"tag-prince-william","24":"tag-prince-william-news","25":"tag-princess-kate","26":"tag-princess-of-wales","27":"tag-royal-families","28":"tag-royal-family","29":"tag-royal-family-new","30":"tag-royal-statement-dispute","31":"tag-uk-royal-family","32":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333379","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=333379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}