Sky News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cHe did not take her advice. Instead, as we know, the wedding went ahead just over six months after the couple\u2019s engagement,\u201d Vickers added.<\/p>\n
Only a few years after tying the knot in May 2018, the couple announced they were leaving England for life in California.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter many months of reflection and internal discussions, we have chosen to make a transition this year in starting to carve out a progressive new role within this institution,\u201d Harry and Meghan in a January 2020 statement.<\/p>\n
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Queen Elizabeth II, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Prince William and Kate Middleton attend the 100th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force in 2018. By: Keith Mayhew\/MEGA<\/p>\n
\u201cWe intend to step back as \u2018senior\u2019 members of the royal family and work to become financially independent, whilst continuing to fully support Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. It is with your encouragement, particularly over the last few years, that we feel prepared to make this adjustment,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n
Elizabeth addressed the duo\u2019s exit in he own statement. \u201cAlthough we would have preferred them to remain full-time working members of the royal family, we respect and understand their wish to live a more independent life as family while remaining a valued part of my family,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth II leaves a royal engagement in 2017. By: MEGA Queen Elizabeth II reportedly scolded Meghan Markle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7708],"tags":[20804,1281,447,1763,5105,22814,7710,519,448],"class_list":["post-893961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-royals","tag-hugo-vickers","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry","tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","tag-royal","tag-royal-engagement","tag-royal-families","tag-royal-family","tag-royals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116404422115783282","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893961","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=893961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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