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Source: Getty Images| Chris Jackson<\/p>\n
Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, and Prince Philip attend Christmas Day service at Church of St Mary Magdalene.<\/p>\n
April 25 2025, Published 1:07 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Many in the royal family were reportedly devastated when the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, stepped down<\/a> as senior royals in 2020. Among them was the late Prince Philip, who allegedly changed his opinion of Markle after their royal exit. Royal author Christopher Anderson claims the Duke of Edinburgh went straight to his wife, the late Queen, to express his \u2018anger\u2019 over Markle\u2019s influence on Harry.<\/p>\n Article continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Anderson\u2019s book, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry and Meghan, revealed that Prince Philip was ‘deeply hurt’ and ‘spitting blood’ after learning about the Sussexes’ plan to leave the UK and move to the US. As reported by The Mirror,<\/a> Anderson claimed Philip had confided in his long-time aide, saying, \u201cIt appears as if we were wrong about her all along.\u201d According to the aide, the Duke shouted, \u201cThis shows a complete lack of respect,\u201d while in conversation with the Queen<\/a>. The author added that much like his father, then-Prince Charles, also changed his views about Markle.<\/p>\n Article continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p>\n As per Anderson, Charles\u2019 staff claimed his reaction to his son’s exit was \u2018frightening\u2019. Charles allegedly called Harry to \u2018try and fix this.\u2019 These claims were echoed by royal biographer Ingrid Seward in her book, Prince Philip Revealed. Seward asserted that Prince Philip saw Harry\u2019s departure with Markle as a \u2018dereliction\u2019 of his grandson’s responsibilities. As per People magazine,<\/a> she penned, \u201cFor a man whose entire existence has been based on a dedication to doing the right thing, it appeared that his grandson had abdicated his responsibilities for the sake of his marriage to an American divorc\u00e9e in much the same way as Edward VIII gave up his crown to marry Wallis Simpson in 1937.\u201d<\/p>\n Article continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p>\n She added that Philip \u201cfound it hard to understand exactly what it was that made his grandson\u2019s life so unbearable.\u201d Philip’s disappointment was reflected in his brutal nickname<\/a> for Markle that compared her to Simpson. Speaking to GB News<\/a>, she explained, \u201cI think he just couldn’t get away from the fact [of the] similarities between Meghan and Harry and Edward and Mrs. Simpson.\u201d She added, \u201cThere are so many similarities, which is why he used to call her The Duchess of Windsor, I mean, not to her face. We used to call her DoW [the abbreviation for Duchess of Windsor].\u201d<\/p>\n Article continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Simpson, who was the Duchess of Windsor, was married to Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s uncle, Prince Edward, from 1937 until his death in 1972. Having been divorced twice before marrying him, she sparked a scandal when Edward abdicated the British throne to wed her. At the time of his passing, Harry and his grandfather remained estranged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Source: Getty Images| Chris Jackson Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, and Prince Philip attend Christmas Day service at Church…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[1501,5105,7710,519,7802,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-50496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-latest-news","9":"tag-royal","10":"tag-royal-families","11":"tag-royal-family","12":"tag-royal-rebels","13":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114400926541477975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50496","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=50496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}