{"id":676530,"date":"2026-01-06T00:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/676530\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T00:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:17:17","slug":"two-pronged-attack-former-royal-family-butler-paul-burrell-makes-shock-2026-prediction-about-prince-harry-and-meghan-markle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/676530\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Two-pronged attack&#8217;: Former royal family butler Paul Burrell makes shock 2026 prediction about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be eclipsed by Prince William and Kate Middleton in the US, according to Paul Burrell.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former royal butler, who served Princess Diana for ten years before she died in 1997, has lifted the lid on his 2026 predictions for the royal family.<\/p>\n<p>According to the 67-year old, the Waleses will be stealing the spotlight on Harry and Meghan&#8217;s home turf.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"poster-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/468da5059c22a705032135fdbd5e5571.jpeg\" data-sctrack=\"op-poster-img\" alt=\"Prince Harry and Meghan Markle share rare family Christmas photo. Picture: Instagram \/ @meghan\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They will totally eclipse Harry and Meghan&#8217;s presence in the United States,&#8221; Burrell told OLBG.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that the King is going to rely more and more on William and Kate because he knows that they are the future. He knows they are the most important and most powerful armour in his arsenal, and he&#8217;s going to rely on them to pincer his visit to America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;It&#8217;ll be a two-pronged attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for Harry and Meghan&#8217;s potential return to the United Kingdom, Burrell thinks it&#8217;s unlikely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Meghan is a wise woman. She realises that she&#8217;s not that popular in Britain,&#8221; he says, adding that the couple are &#8220;safe&#8221; in Montecito.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As for what&#8217;s next for the Duchess of Sussex, Burrell predicts that she&#8217;ll return to the screen &#8211; amongst other things.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;ll launch herself back into an acting career, and she will launch herself into cosmetics and fashion wear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s nowhere that Meghan couldn&#8217;t succeed, and I wish her well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prince Harry has previously slammed Burrell for his continuous commentary on the royal family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the Duke of Sussex&#8217;s memoir Spare, which was released in 2023, he fumed that the former footman made his &#8220;blood boil&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMummy&#8217;s former butler had penned a tell-all which actually told nothing,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was merely one man&#8217;s self-justifying, self-centring version of events.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"poster-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/22c59d21b2e455191ea85c1472623e7e.jpeg\" data-sctrack=\"op-poster-img\" alt=\"\u2018Worst daughter ever\u2019: Explosive allegations hit Meghan Markle over \u2018aggressive messages\u2019\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother once called this butler a dear friend, trusted him implicitly. We did too. Now this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was milking her disappearance for money. It made my blood boil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Burrell hit back at the royal,<a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/lifestyle\/celebrity-life\/i-know-how-petulant-he-can-be-and-how-spoiled-he-is-exroyal-butler-paul-burrell-claims-prince-harry-living-in-a-bubble\/news-story\/01eeb1f6d9a874c0d1d9ba331b297335\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"01eeb1f6d9a874c0d1d9ba331b297335\" data-tgev-label=\"lifestyle\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> telling SkyNews.com.au that he had come face to face with Harry&#8217;s &#8220;petulant&#8221; behaviour<\/a> after Vanity Fair&#8217;s expos\u00e9 on the Sussexes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know from firsthand experience how difficult Harry can be,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know how petulant he can be and how spoiled he is, because I&#8217;ve experienced that myself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s always lived in a bubble.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be eclipsed by Prince William and Kate Middleton in the US, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[13080,1281,75746,447,532,8606,5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-676530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royals","9":"tag-meghan-markle","10":"tag-paul-burrell","11":"tag-prince-harry","12":"tag-prince-william","13":"tag-princess-kate","14":"tag-royal","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115845283444089758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676530","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=676530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}