Why did prince harry and meghan leave the royal family

Back in 2020 whenPrince Harryand her recently married wife, Meghan Markle, requested to be able to quit the Royal Family and star a new life away from the royal duties,Queen Elizabeth II was heartbroken at the situation according to a new book called, "The New Royals".

Queen Elizabeth II was heartbroken and exhausted

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Queen Elizabeth II allowed her grandson, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle to exit the Royal Family but didn't allow them to leave and continue to receive the benefits that come with being a royal member.

In "The New Royals" book by Katie Nicholl a souce close to the late queen says the monarch confided to her that she was exhausted by the decision, with Queen Elizabeth II expressing that she was very hurt and that she didn't care anymore, as she just wanted to stop thinking about it.

They say the source of her sadness came that she wasn't able to see her great-granchildren Archie and Lilibet.

With one of the main reasons for the relationship to sour being when Harry and Meghan didn't attend the Balmoral for the annual sleepover that Queen Elizabeth II used to held for her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

The book also talks about their rift with King Charles III

When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle exited the Royal Family, King Charles III and Queen consort Camilla also had some awkward encounters with them, even with Harry suggesting that a mediator was used to try and make things smoother.

This comes as Harry and Meghan have departed London after attending the funeral services for her late majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and are now with their children in Los Angeles.

Oprah's interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle technically ran over three hours, but only an hour-and-a-half of shocking revelations made it to the broadcast on March 7. Speaking on CBS This Morning the following day, Oprah said her intention with the final cut was to answer this question, once and for all: Why did the Sussexes step down from the royal family?

When Oprah asked if the couple left because of the media's racist treatment towards Meghan, Harry replied: "It was a large part of it."

In January 2020, Harry and Meghan "stepped back" from their duties as senior royals. "I took matters into my own hands," Harry said, classifying his mindset at the time as "desperate." Harry clarified that he did not blindside Queen Elizabeth II, as rumored, but had conversations about changing his role with his grandmother and his father—before Prince Charles "stopped taking [his] calls."

The couple's original intentions were to move to a commonwealth nation and continue their royal duties in a reduced capacity. That did not happen. Today, the couple lives in Santa Barbara, California. They have been financially cut off from the royal family, and no longer receive security protection from them. Harry revealed the couple is living off the money his mother, Diana, left him.

A year after stepping down, the royal family has not reached out to apologize for the conditions that led to the couple's choice to move. "The feeling is that this was our decision. Therefore the consequences are on us. Despite three years of asking for help or visualizing how this might end, it's been really hard," Harry said of the consequences of their actions in new footage from the interview, which aired on CBS This Morning.

While speaking to Oprah, again and again, the couple emphasized a lack of support from the royal family, especially as Markle faced a barrage of negative press.

Harry pointed out that "nobody from [his] family ever said anything" in support of his wife as she endured severe media scrutiny. Instead, Meghan said, the family tried to compare their own experiences with the British media to hers.

But as Markle pointed out, their treatment in the media was different, due to factors like Markle's race, her outsider status as an American, and the amplification of social media. She used headlines about Kate Middleton, Prince William's wife, as an example.

Whereas Kate was called "Waity Kaity" by the press as she waited for a proposal, Markle's very character was put into question due to her eating avocado toast. A 2019 Daily Mail headline read: “Is Meghan’s favourite snack fuelling drought and murder?” Per a Guardianstudy in 2020, 43% of headlines published about Markle since 2018 were negative in tone. In the same time span, 45% of those about Kate were positive.

"This is not the same. A member of his family would comfortably say, 'We've all had to deal with things that are rude.' Rude and racist are not the same. You've also had a press team that goes on the record to defend you...and that didn't happen for us," Meghan explained.

"Rude and racist are not the same."

For the Sussexes, it's apparent that Markle's race contributed to the negative press coverage. However, the fact that Markle is biracial has not been acknowledged by members of his family as contributing to a double standard in the media.

Harry said it would "make a huge difference" if they would acknowledge it. "There are a lot of people who have seen it for what it was. It's talked about across the world. Yet the very people that don't want to see it or can't see it choose not to see it," Harry said.

Even if the topic of race didn't arise in the context of media coverage, Meghan said it was brought up in regards to Archie before he was born—specifically, about his skin tone. "There [were] conversations with Harry about how dark your baby is going to be and what that would mean or look like," she said.

Oprah followed up, "They were concerned that if he were too brown that that would be a problem?" Markle responded, "I wasn't able to follow up. If that's the assumption you're making, that would be a safe one." Harry said he would "never" share who made those comments, but assured Oprah that it was neither the queen nor Prince Philip.

Markle implied that Archie's race may have been part of the reason he was not given a prince title like his first cousins, Prince William's children, and therefore was deprived of security.

Finally, Markle shut down rumors that the stepping down was her decision. "Can you imagine how little sense that makes? I left my career, my life, I left everything because I love him. Our plan was to do this forever," she said.

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