Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were blasted by a royal commentator who accused them of “relentlessly” attacking the royals, dubbing one of their moves “toxic and destructive”. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have made a string of claims against the royals since their sensational departure from the Firm in 2020.
The Montecito couple spoke about their time within the Royal Family in interviews, their eponymous Netflix docuseries and in the Duke’s memoir, Spare. But some of their most controversial claims were made in 2021, when they gave their – now infamous – Oprah Winfrey interview.
Harry and Meghan made various allegations, ranging from why they had left the UK to Archie’s skin colour, the Duchess’s mental health, and the Firm’s overall support.
Now, Newsweek’s royal correspondent, Jack Royston, criticised the couple in a new interview about them potentially dropping new bombshells in the future. He told The Sun: “The problem is with the way Harry and Meghan piled in quite relentlessly on the royals.
“Particularly, I do think the Oprah interview, they did botch it… it could have been done differently and better in a way that would be less toxic and destructive. The racism allegation, they have clearly tried to change it retrospectively or row it back. So, obviously, Meghan botched how she described that story.”
He also said that it wouldn’t matter anymore if the Sussexes dropped any more bombshells because the public would dismiss them.
He explained: “But there’s always been this thing that Meghan’s kind of intimated that she’s got receipt, that was in the days after Oprah, one of her friends went on ITV and said, ‘we’ve got the receipts to prove everything’.
“So, she’s always had this tendency to give these kind of slightly veiled threats that she’s sitting on this bombshell. They’ve always been floating these ideas that they’re sitting on a kind of a massive nuclear warhead that they can drop at any point.”
But he added: “Ultimately, they destroyed themselves by the way they basically relentlessly attacked Harry’s own family in a context where no one was fighting back.
“And so, they may well still be sitting on unused material that Harry says he’ll never share.
“But it doesn’t matter anymore because even if they did, they’re so uniformly viewed as the villains, particularly in Britain, but even in America, they’re not viewed in this protective way anymore.”