Harry’s Biographer Sounds Alarm Over Meghan’s UK Return — and It’s Bad News for King Charles
The royal biographer who once had unprecedented access to Prince Harry says a joint UK appearance would create a headache for the King that nobody is prepared for.
There is perhaps no one better placed to chart how much Prince Harry has changed than the woman who once had a front-row seat to his life. This royal biographer doesn't like what she sees — particularly with a potential return to the UK on the horizon.
Angela Levin, who spent fifteen months with Harry gathering material for her 2018 biography, appeared on TalkTV to share her concerns about reports that Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, is considering accompanying her husband to Birmingham this July for an Invictus Games event. To Levin, the prospect of a joint UK appearance is far from a simple homecoming — it is, she believes, a situation loaded with complications, not least for King Charles.
"I think they want to go to London and see Charles and try and stay there, or anywhere," Levin told presenter Mark Dolan."They want to come back, but Meghan wants to tear it apart. If she goes there, she will become royal again, and she will get money. She will ask for lots of clothes, and she will do everything. But if anybody gets her there and keeps her there, it will be a nightmare."
For Levin, it is inseparable from her broader concern about Harry himself. Having observed him up close before his life was upended by his departure from royal duties, she says the contrast today is difficult to ignore. "He is obviously extremely unhappy, and he can't put on a good face," she said. "When we went out, and he was a bit irritable one day, he managed to smile and be happy. He could be very alert, but now he can't." Levin went ahead, pointing to what she described as visible tension between them during their recent public appearances.
"You see him moving his hand away from her because he doesn't want her to keep hanging on to his arm," she observed. "It's too much, and he can't stand it." Despite what she believes she is witnessing, Levin acknowledges that Harry remains steadfastly devoted to his wife — and that therein lies the heart of the problem. "It's very difficult. But if he doesn't listen to you, then it's very difficult. I think the Royal Family are being very careful because of that. But he doesn't listen, he still believes that Meghan is absolutely wonderful."
For King Charles, Levin suggests, that blind loyalty is precisely what makes the situation so delicate. A father who, by all accounts, still deeply loves his son, is left with little room to manoeuvre. "If he comes to work in the royal way, then it'll be very difficult because she will control it and he can't do that," Levin warned. "It's very complicated for the king, who obviously adores his son."
The stakes of any UK return feel all the more significant given what has already quietly transpired between father and son. Harry and King Charles are understood to have met privately in September last year — a reunion that, while brief, was widely regarded as a tentative step toward some form of reconciliation.
