After stepping down from their roles as working royals, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made several claims against the royal family. The couple said things and made accusations that cast King Charles, Queen Camilla, Prince William, and the Princess of Wales (formerly known as Kate Middleton) in a terrible light.
Now, someone who has worked with the family for decades and knows Harry well said the Duke of Sussex trashed them all for one reason, and it wasn’t necessary.
Photographer says why Harry trashed Kate and the rest of his family
Prince Harry and Kate Middleton attend a National Service of Thanksgiving for Queen Elizabeth II | Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images
Arthur Edwards is a photographer who has taken pictures of the royal family for over 40 years. He and royal biographer Ingrid Seward told The Sun that “there was no need” for Harry to do what he did to his family after stepping down and he “can’t easily be forgiven.”
Seward pointed out: “Ever since he left this country the split became so huge between the royal family here, the U.S., the media, and him. Mainly because he just rubbished the royal family. You can’t rubbish the king’s wife, Camilla, and expect to be easily forgiven. You can’t rubbish William’s wife and be easily forgiven.”
Edwards then added that Harry trashed his sister-in-law and others in the Firm for one reason and one reason only claiming: “For profit, and that’s really what wrangles with me because Harry wasn’t down to his last 30 bob, he had plenty of money. There was no need to do that.”
Prince William and Kate haven’t spoken to Harry in years
Kate Middleton, Prince William, Prince Harry, and Meghan Markle on the Long Walk at Windsor Castle following Queen Elizabeth II’s death | Kirsty O’Connor – WPA Pool/Getty Images
The Princess of Wales was first pulled into the Sussexes’ war with the royals during the duke and duchess’s interview with Oprah Winfrey. Meghan told the former talk show host that she did not make Kate cry but “the reverse happened.”
Prince Harry backed up his wife’s story in his memoir Spare. The duke also claimed that Kate was taken aback when the duchess asked to borrow her lip gloss at an event and “grimaced” when Meghan squeezed some gloss onto her finger and applied it. And in another passage, Harry took the blame off himself and shifted some onto his sister-in-law saying she and Prince William encouraged him to wear that infamous Nazi costume to a party.
Friends of the Waleses have said that trashing Kate is something for which Prince William has never and may never forgive his brother.
As for where things stand currently between the Waleses and the Sussexes, one insider told the Daily Beast that William and Kate have not spoken to the duke and have no plans to any time soon, sharing: “They have come to terms with the estrangement from Harry and are content to let sleeping dogs lie.”
