Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have tarnished the Royal Family brand following their bombshells, says a royal expert. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped down as senior royals in 2020 and moved to the US to start their new life.
However, the couple has since fallen out of favour with the public after airing royal family secrets in various interviews and media projects.
Royal author and historian Ed Owens said the couple have managed to damage most of their personal relationships with members of the Firm following their bombshell interviews. “The story is a slightly tragic one as it has damaged this idea of a family monarchy," he said. "This idea that this is a united group who embody, if you like, the best of British family life,” he said on the Mirror’s “Pod Save The King” podcast. “Originally King Charles III’s reign was going to be based around him being supported by his two trusty lieutenants — William and Harry.”“But when that went so disastrously wrong in early 2020 because of Harry and Meghan’s decision to leave Britain, it really put paid to that vision of the family monarchy,” he added.He continued: “And then of course we’ve had the Sussexes airing their dirty laundry in public for the best part of three years — and again it has done much damage to that narrative of happy family life.”“So why not, as I suggest in my book, do away with this family narrative once and for all?
We don’t need to have this big royal family presenting themselves as moral exemplars,” he went on.“King Charles is uniquely placed because he knows first-hand that the ideal of the family rarely matches the reality of the family monarchy.” Get the latest celebrity gossip and telly news sent straight to your inbox.
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