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New York Post
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Meghan Markle has a subtle response to Prince Harry losing bid for UK security
Meghan Markle has family on her mind after Prince Harry lost his appeal to regain taxpayer-funded security in the UK. The Duchess of Sussex, 43, posted a photo on Instagram Saturday of Harry, 40, with their son Prince Archie, 5, and daughter Princess Lilibet, 3. 9 Meghan Markle at the 2025 TIME100 Summit. Getty Images for TIME The black-and-white image depicted Harry and his kids with their backs to the camera. Harry walked beside Archie and held his hand while Lilibet sat on his shoulders. They appeared to be in the garden of their Montecito, Calif. home. Markle didn't include a caption with her post. She also had the comments turned off. 9 Meghan Markle's photo of Prince Harry and their kids. Meghan Markle/Instagram Over the weekend, Harry was dealt a painful loss in his fight to maintain his tax-payer funded security detail in his native country. 9 Meghan Markle, Prince Harry in South Africa in Oct. 2019. Getty Images The legal team behind the decision said it would not be appropriate for Harry to have the publicly-paid-for security since shirking his royal duties. The 'Spare' author and his wife stepped back from their royal duties and moved to America in 2020. London's High Court ruled to strip the Sussexes of taxpayer-funded UK security protection in Feb. 2024. Following the latest ruling, Harry— who attended the hearing in England last month — told the BBC that he was 'devastated' by the court's decision. 9 Prince Harry in his BBC interview. BBC 9 Prince Harry lost his appeal to have security in the UK. BBC 9 Prince Harry, Meghan Markle at their wedding in England in May 2018. Getty Images 'I'm sure there are some people out there, probably most likely the people that wish me harm, [who] consider this a huge win,' he suggested. 'Everybody knew that they were putting us at risk in 2020 and they hoped that me knowing that risk would force us to come back.' 'But then when you realize that didn't work, do you not want to keep us safe?' Harry questioned. 'Whether you're the government, the Royal Household, whether you're my dad, my family – despite all of our differences, do you not want to just ensure our safety?' 9 Meghan Markle, Prince Harry attend the Endeavour Fund Awards in London in March 2020. Getty Images Harry also told the British outlet that he will likely never bring his wife and children to the UK again. (Markle hasn't been in England since Queen Elizabeth's funeral in Sept. 2022) 'I love my country. I always have done. Despite what some people in that country have done,' he said. 'I miss the UK, I miss parts of the UK, of course I do. I think that it's really quite sad that I won't be able to show my children my homeland.' 9 Meghan Markle with her daughter Lilibet. Meghan Markle/Instagram 9 Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's son Archie. Meghan Markle/Instagram Additionally, the Invictus Games founder confirmed that he's still estranged from his father, King Charles III. 'Life is precious. I don't know how much longer my father has,' Harry said about the 76-year-old monarch, who was diagnosed with cancer last year. 'He won't speak to me because of this security stuff,' Harry added. 'But it would be nice to reconcile.'
Yahoo
11-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's Last Royal Engagement Not Only 'Looked Cold' But 'Felt Cold,' Harry Said
Kate Middleton made her return to the annual Commonwealth Day service yesterday for the first time in two years—and five years ago, in 2020, that same service at Westminster Abbey marked the official end of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's career as working royals. It all started with a statement on January 8, 2020, announcing the couple's intention to step back as working members of the royal family. Less than two years after their May 19, 2018 wedding, the couple quit royal life and relocated from the U.K. to the U.S. with their son, Prince Archie, who was less than a year old. (Princess Lilibet would be born in the U.S. in 2021.) Harry and Meghan carried out royal engagements until the official end of their work as royals on March 31, 2020. They flew back to the U.K. in March for the Endeavour Fund Awards on March 5, the Mountbatten Festival of Music at the Royal Albert Hall on March 7, and the aforementioned Commonwealth Day service on March 9, which doubled as a tense, uncomfortable family reunion between Harry, Meghan, and the rest of the royals in attendance that day, including Prince William, Kate, Queen Elizabeth, and Prince Charles. 'The first time that we saw the other members of the family was in public at Westminster Abbey,' Meghan said in the 2022 Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan. To this, Harry added, 'We were nervous seeing the family, because all the TV cameras and everybody watching at home and everybody watching in the audience. It's like living through a soap opera where everybody else views you as entertainment.' At the Commonwealth Day service, Harry and Meghan sat next to Prince Edward and Sophie, who was then Countess of Wessex (and is now Duchess of Edinburgh) and behind William and Kate. As William and Kate sat down, Meghan gave a small wave, and she and Harry smiled and said hello to them—but the tension was high. 'I felt really distant from the rest of my family, which was interesting because so much of how they operate is about what it looks like, rather than what it feels like,' Harry said. 'And it looked cold. But it also felt cold.' Following Harry and Meghan's royal exit, there was a one-year probation period put in place to make sure that all parties were still okay with the decision. On February 18, 2021—less than one month before Harry and Meghan's bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey—the decision was made final: Harry and Meghan would be staying in the U.S. and not returning to the U.K. and royal life. 'This is what Meghan and Harry have always wanted—to create their own life,' a source told People in March 2020. 'It's got to feel like an immense relief to get out of the U.K. and go down their own path.' Read the original article on InStyle
