According to experts, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle left the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee early because the Royal Family has’moved on’ without them and the couple are not the stars they believe they are.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will have been’really fed up’ with being overlooked by the palace’s’men in suits’ since leaving in 2020, it has been alleged.
And, as they were booed at their only public appearance on Friday at St Paul’s, the couple will have learned that being a royal is ‘about service, not about self,’ according to one critic. ‘Their attitude seems to be that if we’re not center stage, we don’t really want to be here,’ another told MailOnline.
Royal experts said the sixth in line to the throne appeared angry, anxious, and very uncomfortable during ‘fleeting glimpses’ of him and his wife during the UK visit, with Harry looking particularly glum as they landed back in California yesterday.
For the Trooping the Colour on Thursday, they were relegated to the Major General’s Office with minor royals, where they were photographed jokingly shushing children. Archie, three, and Lilibet, one, were never seen in public with their parents.
According to MailOnline, the Sussexes were ‘trounced’ upon their return to the UK, according to investigative journalist Tom Bower, who is working on a biography of Meghan.
He said: ‘I think Palace officials were unusually skilful in managing the Sussexes. Just enough exposure to please the Queen but at the same time so limited to show them that they have been sidelined. Harry’s grim expression exposed and confirmed the troubles he now faces. Meghan now faces problems about her status. Netflix are left with a problem: The Sussexes are no longer stars’.
Angela Levin, Harry’s biographer, claimed the pair were probably kept separate from Prince Charles and Prince William because to their ongoing feud and concerns that any intimate chats might come up in Harry’s memoirs or on a US TV chat show.
‘I wonder if they [Harry and Meghan] decided, “We’ve had enough of this, let’s leave early,”‘ she said. I believe they were enraged. They probably thought they’d be welcomed back with open arms when they returned, but the truth is that the world, including the Royal Family, have moved on without them. They expected everyone to drop everything for them, but they were wrong.’
‘When Harry arrived at St Paul’s, he had a snarling expression,’ she continued. It was present at all times. They were irritated to the point of rage. William and Charles have grown closer, filling the void left by Harry, which must be difficult for him. I imagine his brother and father were concerned about speaking to him in private for fear of it being published in his memoirs or broadcast on US television.’
Harry, Meghan, and their children are said to have left Farnborough Airport in west London at 1.30pm yesterday, one hour before the Jubilee Pageant began in central London. It marked the conclusion of their Jubilee, which left them without any official function after they stepped down as frontline royals in 2020.
‘Their mentality seems to be that if we’re not center stage, we don’t really want to be here,’ royal author Phil Dampier told MailOnline.
‘They must realise they are no longer popular with the general public, and travelling in and out by private jet hardly helps their so-called green credentials.
‘I’m afraid that all the time Harry is writing a book and making Netflix fly on the wall programmes, Charles and William will not trust him. They would worry that any in depth conversations would be repeated in the media, and so I’m sure they are keeping him at arms length for the time’.
‘This was about the Queen and the future of the monarchy, which they opted out of as senior working royals,’ said analyst Richard Fitzwilliams after the Sussexes were booed at St Paul’s on Friday. Despite this, the institution is responsible for their complete profile and contracts.
This fantastic four days demonstrated how strong it is, as well as how incorrect it was to conduct the Oprah interview, which led it to lose popularity among young people and ethnic minorities, and which aired while Prince Philip was ill.
‘The Sussexes should have learnt a lesson over the last few days. When it actually comes to capturing hearts and minds it is about service, not about self’.
The Montecito-based couple was reportedly driven from Frogmore Cottage in Windsor, where they had been living since arriving in the UK on Wednesday, at midday yesterday.
And they were already on their way across the Atlantic when Harry’s grandmother, father, brother, and nieces and nephews waved to the adoring audience from Buckingham Palace’s balcony, capping up four days of spectacular celebrations honoring the Queen’s 70 years on the throne.
After they left, an estimated 18 million people attended Jubilee street parties yesterday, including one in west London visited by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
The Sussexes, who have been mostly missing from the Jubilee celebrations, were last seen in public on Friday at St Paul’s Cathedral’s Thanksgiving ceremony, where they were booed and cheered as they entered and exited.
For the Trooping the Colour on Thursday, they were consigned to the Major General’s Office alongside minor royals, where they were spotted jokingly shushing children. Archie and Lilibet were never seen together in public.
Instead, they spent the majority of their time at Frogmore Cottage with their children, and at the Windsor house, they staged a’relaxed’ party for Lilibet’s first birthday, which was attended by the one-year-British old’s cousins.
On Sunday at 6 p.m., the Sussexes returned to California. The plane was spotted unloading equipment that seemed to be a high chair. After nearly five days away from the US, Harry was seen in the passenger seat of a black Range Rover that had arrived to carry the family home, looking extremely serious.
Charles remarked about the sense of community produced by the Jubilee celebrations, telling revelers at The Big Lunch’s flagship event in London that he hoped ‘bickering’ did not return after the sense of ‘togetherness’ felt across the country.
As the Queen’s Jubilee Pageant came to an end, Sadiq Khan described it as “amazing.”
The Mayor of London tweeted: ‘Wasn’t that spectacular?’
‘It was moving to see so many of London’s performers, service people, key workers and school children involved in today’s #PlatinumJubilee Pageant to tell the story of the Queen’s historic 70-year reign.’
His sentiment was echoed by Pageant Master Adrian Evans, who has spent 18 months planning the £15 million event, featuring some 10,000 people including a cast of 6,000 performers.
Mr Evans told BBC News: ‘I hope at the end of the day people will feel a great sense of pride in what they’ve seen, enjoyment in what they’ve seen, humour and joy is an important part of what we’re doing today but also connected, that we are much more connected then we think we are.’
He told Sky News: ‘What I wanted to do first and foremost was provide an opportunity for people to express themselves in their own wonderful, idiosyncratic, quirky way and that to the iconic streets around Buckingham Palace.’
Close to 200 national treasures will take to the stage to serenade the Queen, if she makes an appearance, by singing the national anthem at the grand finale of the Platinum Jubilee festivities.
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