Speaker 1: Calorogu Shark Media. Hello and welcome through Palace Intry again
Speaker 1: your host Mark Francis. Prince Harry is reportedly petrified both
Speaker 1: of losing Meghan, Duchess of sussexon of the Duchess herself,
Speaker 1: according to royal experts. Speaking on this week's episode of
Speaker 1: The Sun's Royal Exclusive, Royal editor Matt Wilkinson was joined
Speaker 1: by news dot com dot AU's a Royal reporter Bronte
Speaker 1: Coy and Royal biographer Hugo Vickers, who offered candid assessments
Speaker 1: of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's relationship. Vickers started
Speaker 1: with Meghan's cooking show, saying, there are other people who
Speaker 1: are much better at telling you these things. There are
Speaker 1: other people who are better at doing cookery programs. I
Speaker 1: mean they're sort of latching onto things well she is
Speaker 1: in particular. It's just hard to see where it's going.
Speaker 1: Turning to Prince Harry, Vickers remarked, I hate to say it,
Speaker 1: but my feeling at the end of the day is
Speaker 1: that Prince Harry is petrified of her and petrified of
Speaker 1: losing her. He's been complicit in a lot of things
Speaker 1: that have gone on, although I think he's been made
Speaker 1: to do many things. Bronti. Coy agreed with the sentiment, stating,
Speaker 1: of course we don't know what's going on in their relationship.
Speaker 1: But with that said, even just speculating on that, you'd
Speaker 1: say he is someone who is in such a unique position.
Speaker 1: There are only a small handful of royals and people
Speaker 1: that have the profile that he has, and you have
Speaker 1: to imagine that if that relationship did fall apart for
Speaker 1: whatever reason down the line, really where does that leave him.
Speaker 1: You can imagine that he would be scared of that.
Speaker 1: To this, Vickers replied, well, he has to come home
Speaker 1: eventually if he can. The King's left the door wide
Speaker 1: open for him. But then there's this issue that Prince
Speaker 1: Harry seems to think the royal family should be apologizing
Speaker 1: to him, whereas it should be the other way around.
Speaker 1: The King's got a lot of other things on his mind,
Speaker 1: but he's never responded to anything. He's left open. We
Speaker 1: don't know whether anything's going on behind the scenes. He's
Speaker 1: got much more hope of reconciliation with the King than
Speaker 1: with his brother. A former friend of Megan's, British socialite
Speaker 1: Lizzie Cundy, who has previously claimed she was dropped by
Speaker 1: Meghan shortly after the then actress began dating Prince Harry,
Speaker 1: offering her withering assessment During an appearance at the Diva
Speaker 1: Awards in London, she told Mail Online She's desperate to
Speaker 1: be liked, desperate to be powerful, and desperate to trump
Speaker 1: the Royals with anything she does. Sadly, for her, you
Speaker 1: can't buy likability and she's lacking in that by the
Speaker 1: bucket load. Cundy also criticized Harry, saying he looks deeply unhappy.
Speaker 1: I think he is missing his family and obviously worried
Speaker 1: about his father's health. A former fan of the Duchess
Speaker 1: has admitted that one highly curated moment with in love
Speaker 1: Meghan was enough to turn her admiration into irritation. Television
Speaker 1: presenter Makita Oliver, speaking on her podcast Miss Me with
Speaker 1: the co host Lily Allen, confessed that Meghan's seemingly effortless
Speaker 1: balloon arch tutorial tipped her over the edge. I loved
Speaker 1: Meghan Markham, but I suddenly stopped liking her for a minute.
Speaker 1: The offending scene, which aired during an episode in which
Speaker 1: Meghan and actress Mindy Kayling plan a children's garden party
Speaker 1: struck Oliver as tone deaf. It was this casual approach
Speaker 1: to something quite tricky and complicated, she explained. I felt like,
Speaker 1: if I don't know how to make a balloon arch
Speaker 1: as well as her, I'd probably feel a bit of
Speaker 1: a crap mum for that day. Lily Allen chimed in
Speaker 1: with her own party strategy, less glossy but evidently effective.
Speaker 1: I just buy a few balloons and let them bother
Speaker 1: around the room, she said. The kids love it. In
Speaker 1: a rather surprising revelation, it has emerged that just prior
Speaker 1: to meeting Meghan Markle in the summer of twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: Harry was nearly sat up with none other than Courtney Kardashian.
Speaker 1: Comedian Katherine Ryan, and speaking to Hello, recounted that she
Speaker 1: once attempted to play matchmaker at a party in London
Speaker 1: attended by Prince Harry's cousin, Princess Beatrice. I walked in
Speaker 1: and saw Courtney Kardashian with Princess Beatrice, Ryan said, I
Speaker 1: went straight over to her because I knew who she was.
Speaker 1: I'm so invested in the Kardashians and their reality show
Speaker 1: at the time, Courtney was in and on again off
Speaker 1: again relationship with Scott Disick, the father of her three
Speaker 1: eldest children, Mason, Penelope and ragn Meanwhile, Prince Harry's previous
Speaker 1: relationships with Chelsea Davy and Cresida Bonus had concluded by
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. Ryan recalled telling Courtney, you need to leave Scott,
Speaker 1: to which Kardashian responded, how can I. He's in my
Speaker 1: house right now. Ryan continued, I told her, don't go
Speaker 1: back to the house. You need to leave him. During
Speaker 1: their conversation, Courtney asked who she might date instead. According
Speaker 1: to Ryan, she did not hesitate, suggesting Prince Harry. Maybe.
Speaker 1: Reflecting on the idea, Ryan remarked, she was right there
Speaker 1: in the UK, it seemed obvious. It remains unclear whether
Speaker 1: Prince Harry and Courtney Kardashian ever met or even spoke
Speaker 1: a Kardashian also seems like an odd choice for someone
Speaker 1: whose life mission seems to be taking on the paparazzi. Indeed,
Speaker 1: prior to meeting Meghan, Prince Harry had spoken openly about
Speaker 1: the difficulty of finding someone willing to endure the intense
Speaker 1: scrutiny that comes with life in the Royal Spotlight. As
Speaker 1: quoted by Hello, he said, I'm not so much searching
Speaker 1: for someone to fulfill the role, but finding someone who
Speaker 1: would be willing to take it on, which we all
Speaker 1: know he has more palace just a moment. A sources
Speaker 1: claimed that Harry and Meghan are eager to trigger a
Speaker 1: truce with William and Kat as Harry seems to rebuild
Speaker 1: times with his family. Speaking to The New York Times,
Speaker 1: the insider said, Meghan's desperate to come across as the
Speaker 1: bigger person and end this feud between them. Appearing like
Speaker 1: some sort of royal savior could only do her image good.
Speaker 1: The source added their hope is that Princess Kate's return
Speaker 1: to work might take some of the heat off them
Speaker 1: and possibly trigger a truce with her and William and
Speaker 1: with the King too. It has further been alleged that
Speaker 1: when Catherine faced criticism over an edited photograph posted for
Speaker 1: Mother's Day in twenty twenty four, Harry encouraged Meghan to
Speaker 1: extend an olive branch. According to an insider speaking to
Speaker 1: Okay magazine, Harry thinks it might be the perfect time
Speaker 1: for Megan to reach out to Kate because she knows
Speaker 1: what it's like to come under fire from the public
Speaker 1: and the press. Harry wants his family to return to
Speaker 1: the UK, and he knows that the only way that
Speaker 1: will happen is if Meghan can repair her fractured relationship
Speaker 1: with Kate. It is understood that Harry has made multiple
Speaker 1: attempts to re establish contact with his family, with claims
Speaker 1: that he's been phoning and messaging both the King and
Speaker 1: the Prince of Wales on multiple occasions without receiving a response.
Speaker 1: Royal expert Royer Nicker in The Sunday Times wrote, a
Speaker 1: friend of Harry's once told me that while he was
Speaker 1: still a working royal, he harbored a Prince Andrew complex
Speaker 1: of slipping down the pecking order and becoming irrelevant. Harry
Speaker 1: has always been in such a rush to make an
Speaker 1: impact because he thinks he has a limited shelf life
Speaker 1: before the public want to hear more from Prince George
Speaker 1: and his siblings, and he worries that after that he'll
Speaker 1: turn into this uncle. Roya added, Let's be clear, Harry
Speaker 1: is certainly no Andrew, though they share a stubbornness that
Speaker 1: raises hackles in the royal fold. If Charles is changing
Speaker 1: course with Andrew. He could also try giving it to
Speaker 1: go with Harry, who has let it be known that
Speaker 1: calls to par go unanswered, and he now learns about
Speaker 1: his father's health from the newspapers. And there you have it.
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