{"id":412073,"date":"2025-09-10T03:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T03:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412073\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T03:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T03:05:10","slug":"biggest-change-in-harrys-life-is-meghan-ex-royal-butler-says-theres-no-coming-back-for-the-sussexes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412073\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Biggest change in Harry\u2019s life is Meghan\u2019: Ex-Royal butler says there&#8217;s no coming back for the Sussexes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Buckingham Palace butler Grant Harrold claims that everything in the royal family changed after Prince Harry met \u2018Suits\u2019 actress Meghan Markle in July 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Harrold was the butler to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/world\/queen-did-not-grant-harry-meghan-same-opportunity-insider-banks-on-king-charles-for-reunion-hes-not-his-mother-11756357246912.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">King Charles<\/a> between 2004 and 2011, when his title was Prince of Wales. In his book \u201cThe Royal Butler,\u201d Harrold said, \u201cThe biggest change in Harry\u2019s life is Meghan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meghan was seen as a disruptor in less than two years of being installed as an official royal.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with Page Six, the former butler said, \u201cAs soon as Meghan came into his life, everything changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could be that Harry had his own awakening and suddenly decided he didn\u2019t like the organisation, but the problem is that Meghan was with him when it happened,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018No coming back\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In his book set to release on September 23, Harrold noted that there is no coming back for the Sussexes to the royal circle, mostly because of Harry and Meghan&#8217;s podcast, book and TV deals<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they reconcile, then fall out again, what\u2019s to say there won\u2019t be another book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/trends\/playing-against-kid-prince-harrys-veiled-jab-at-king-charles-in-netflix-series-11734598279384.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netflix series<\/a> or interview about it?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe king doesn\u2019t trust Harry, because of what Harry has said. He worried that he would use it to his advantage. And he has,\u201d the ex-buttler, 47, told Page Six.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Harry did what household members typically do, and spilled the beans. \u201cIt\u2019s a big thing for the family to have one of their own do this. They were all so close, and to see that relationship completely destroyed, I do not see them coming back from it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prince Philip\u2019s searing four-word verdict<\/p>\n<p>Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were wed in a lavish ceremony at St George\u2019s Chapel at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/world\/us-president-donald-trump-melania-to-visit-uk-in-sept-will-be-hosted-by-king-charles-iii-in-windsor-castle-11752499811469.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windsor Castle<\/a>, with both the late Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>In his book, Harrold said Philip couldn\u2019t resist saying one of his trademark one-liners to mark the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Once all the formalities were over, and everyone was filing out of the chapel, \u201cPrince Philip came out, he turned to the Queen and said, \u2018Thank f\u2013k that\u2019s over.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very funny. I think he was speaking for the majority of people, but he was the man who actually said it,\u201d the ex-buttler said. \u201cI was standing opposite him and it was so funny,\u201d he told Page Six<\/p>\n<p>Harrold said the comment made the Queen, who passed away in 2022, turn to her husband and grin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Buckingham Palace butler Grant Harrold claims that everything in the royal family changed after Prince Harry met&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,2633,141697,7721,7719,2915,13482,7718,533,518,7720,1281,447,12466,11572,532,2607,1763,7710,519,1598,1278,141698,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-412073","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-buckingham-palace","10":"tag-death-of-queen-elizabeth-ii","11":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","12":"tag-duke-of-sussex","13":"tag-exclusive","14":"tag-grant-harrold","15":"tag-harry","16":"tag-kate-middleton","17":"tag-king-charles-iii","18":"tag-meghan","19":"tag-meghan-markle","20":"tag-prince-harry","21":"tag-prince-harry-meghan-markle","22":"tag-prince-philip","23":"tag-prince-william","24":"tag-queen-camilla","25":"tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","26":"tag-royal-families","27":"tag-royal-family","28":"tag-royal-family-news","29":"tag-royal-family-updates","30":"tag-the-sussexes","31":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115177791391835708","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412073","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=412073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}