Mr Unimportant: Prince Harry takes on new role as Meghan Markle's 'assistant' after losing UK high court security case
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry married in 2018 and it was easily recognised who the leader of the two was – Meghan, and she has been the one in charge ever since.
She often pushes him out of the way to be the first to talk to whoever is there.
They hold hands which makes it easy for Meghan to pull Harry in any direction she decides to go.
She also regularly taps Harry on the back to signal it's time to move on even when he's in the middle of a conversation.
Meghan doesn't listen to experts as she believes she knows best.
Harry thinks she is the best too and she is the only person he listens to and obeys.
Her control has become more powerful as time has gone on, while Harry's position seems to have moved from royal husband/partner to her occasional assistant or junior bodyguard.
Last month, the couple attended the Lincoln Centre in New York for the Time100 Summit where Meghan was interviewed.
As they got out of their car Harry reached out to hold her hand but Meghan didn't even seem to see him and marched off alone.
Harry walked awkwardly behind her as if he was a new bodyguard among the group who had already gathered.
They rarely walk close together now.
Nor do Harry's views and wishes seem to count.
Harry has spent years fighting against the proliferation of social media, which he believes is very dangerous.
He also wants to keep his children out of sight to protect them.
Meghan, however, has now returned to Instagram and uses their two children to help boost her sales.
Her compromise is not to show their faces.
Recently she asked her daughter Lilibet what she thought of her raspberry jam. She replied: 'It's beautiful'.
Then during Meghan's podcast with her friend Jamie Kern Lima, she gave the US entrepreneur a small parcel of goodies with a gift card that had her name and the 'HRH' title printed on it.
This has caused trouble as she and Harry agreed with the late Queen Elizabeth in 2020 to stop using this title when they stepped back from their roles as working royals.
She claims she just uses it for friends, but it shouldn't be used for commercial benefit.
It's a dreadful thing to do and I wonder if Harry had had a say on such an important matter.
Meanwhile, at the Time100 Summit Meghan said that she had never felt happier.
It was a strange comment to make when your husband seems to be having a global meltdown.
Harry agreed to be interviewed by the BBC about his High Court claim for full time police protection, a service which is only given to King Charles, his wife Camilla and the Prince and Princess of Wales.
As he is not a royal worker and lives abroad, he was only offered occasional protection when he visited the country.
Harry, who wants security detail 24/7, claimed in a muddled and disrespectful way he had been 'singled out' for 'inferior treatment' and that his safety and life were 'at stake'.
He said he didn't 'know how much longer' his 76-year-old father with cancer has left to live and does not think he will ever be able to bring his wife and their children to the UK.
Not long after this, Meghan posted a black and white photograph of Harry walking away down a path in their garden with Lilibet on his shoulders and Archie walking beside him as they held hands.
It gave the impression that the couple couldn't care less about the royals or the British.
Angela Levin is an award-winning British journalist and royal biographer. Her biography Harry: Conversations with the Prince was published in 2018. Her work has been commended twice at the British Press Awards
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