Palace Slammed Over Charles and Harry's Reconciliation—Expert Claims 'We're Not Being Told the Full Story'
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's reunion with King Charles had received widespread attention over the past several weeks, and now has been doubted.
Although Prince Harry was returning to the UK in July for the 2027 Invictus Games events, weeks before he even boarded his flight, the focus had entirely shifted to the speculated reconciliation between him and King Charles. The intensity around the potential meeting deepened because Meghan Markle and the couple’s two kids, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, were reportedly set to be there. And while the “private family occasion” did take place at Highgrove, the news hasn’t sat well with just about everyone.
Royal expert Shauna Kay took to X recently, raising doubts over the actual intention behind Charles’ reconciliation with Harry and Markle. Although the Duke of Sussex undertook several public engagements in the UK, his wife and children were away from the public eye. “I’m prepared to be wrong, but I want this on the record. I do not believe Meghan and the children came to the UK, and if they did, it did not unfold as claimed. I also do not believe we are being given the full story about the King’s involvement in the planning, or the true aims of what became known as Project Thaw, a coordinated effort with helpers across politics, the Palace, and certain sections of the media,” Kay wrote.
She further criticized “those with institutional power” for acting as they pleased “with little regard” for the ones who actually valued the monarchy. Kay added, “And for those in power to be represented as innocent is ludicrous after more than six years of negligently refusing to act.”
It has been six years since Harry and Markle stepped down from their role as senior working royals and shifted to the UK. But for all these years, the rift between the Sussexes and the monarchy has largely operated as a family drama. Kay blamed the people “with authority to act” for this. “The Meghan and Harry saga has not been kept alive by commentators. It has been kept alive, continuously, by those with the authority to act, and who repeatedly refused to enforce the Sandringham agreement,” she wrote.
The royal expert likened the mess to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson, and further mentioned this kind of system has grown under Charles. “This pattern is not new. It mirrors the era in which the former Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson openly leveraged their royal status and connections for profit. It is a system that has persisted and, in many ways, thrived under King Charles III,” she added.
Although Harry and Charles may have taken the first step in mending fences, the former remains estranged from his older brother, Prince William. The siblings have likely not met when the Duke was in the UK.
