Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been married since 2018; the two began dating in 2016 and were together for about a year and a half before Harry popped the question. Since then, they have gone through what feels like a whole lifetime of changes including dropping their formal royal titles and picking up a new life in the United States.

But Harry has done a lot for Meghan, and one royal expert recently highlighted the biggest “sacrifice” the prince has had to make for his wife — and how “tough” it must be for him.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle |Prince Harry and Meghan Markle | Rosa Woods/Pool/Getty Images

Prince Harry’s greatest ‘sacrifice’ is one that ‘must be tough,’ per one expert

Harry and Meghan decided back in 2019 that they were going to transition out of the royal family. The two spent six weeks in Canada over the holiday season with their son, Prince Archie, and when they arrived back, they announced their plans to build a different kind of life in the United States. Since then, neither has fully found their footing; Meghan had a Spotify deal go bad, and Harry has focused on his Invictus Games but has not done much in the way of true business ventures. And one royal expert recently commented on how “tough” Harry’s “sacrifice” must have been.

“I think we can say that it must be tough for Harry to have lost touch with virtually all his old circle of friends as well as his family,” royal expert Jennie Bond told Ok! Magazine UK, via Express. “But we must assume that he feels that sacrifice is worth it for the life he now has with the woman he loves and the children he adores.”

Still, not everyone agrees. Express also reports that royal expert Tom Quinn says Harry is “bored” and has lost those friends — including military pals and school friends — because “Meghan is difficult.”

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have not found their footing in the United States

Harry and Meghan have had a mixed bag of good and bad ever since settling down in Montecito, California. While the two certainly have some close friends who have remained at their side, as well as Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland, the couple remain a controversial topic in the US. Not everyone agrees with their decision to profit off of bashing the royal family, and it seems that some of their business ventures have not panned out in the way they expected.

Meghan is currently in the midst of filming a cooking show while also launching a lifestyle brand called American Riviera Orchard. It will be her next attempt at a business venture, and it remains unclear how things will go. But Meghan does have experience in the lifestyle space, having had her blog The Tig prior to joining the royal family, so the duchess is certainly getting involved again in something she’s good at.