Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s ‘revenge plot stopped in tracks by royal tragedy’

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s ‘revenge plot stopped in tracks by royal tragedy’

Harry and Meghan emerged as increasingly controversial figures in 2024 – and according to one expert, their change in fortune can be linked back to the royal family
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
Harry and Meghan have seen their popularity wane in 2024

Prince Harry and Meghan have faced a difficult year – from unfounded rumours about the state of their marriage, to brutal reviews of their most recent Netflix series and reports of ‘belittling’ and ‘bullying’ members of staff.

Certainly their fortune seems to have changed in the years since they moved Stateside. Initially welcomed with open arms, the tide seems to have turned against the Sussexes in the past 12 months. And, according to one royal expert, it can be linked back to Harry’s family.

The Daily Mail’s Amanda Platell has suggested that King Charles and Princess Kate’s cancer ordeals “firmly put an end to Harry and Meghan making money through their spiteful tirades against them”.

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“How could Megs keep coining it by being horrid about King Charles and the future Queen Catherine, as she has done in the past, when they were so ill. And when people across the world were admiring the way both King and Princess not only publicly revealed their diagnoses but soldiered on as best they could with their duties in spite of their illnesses,” she wrote.

“Yet without income from projects like that Oprah interview, their tell-all Netflix documentary series and Harry’s book Spare, the couple have been woefully exposed. How lonely and, yes, anxious, they must feel as they spend Christmas in their fine Montecito mansion. She with her mum Doria but with her dad, exiled from her life, and yet living just a few miles away, and Harry worlds apart from his own family.”

It echoes comments previously made by US-based royal commentator Lee Cohen, who has said that while Harry and Meghan once “epitomised a modern fairy-tale”, their “whining” has meant that America’s love affair with the pair has “significantly cooled”.