Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have created a new life in the US. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex left the royal family several years ago now, but the aftermath shocked the royal family to its core. Harry and Meghan have accused the royals of questioning Archie’s skin color before he was born, and many other accusations and personal attacks were presented in both their explosive Oprah interview and Harry’s book Spare.
There is no question that the relationship between the royals and the Sussexes is at a low point, and even though Harry was at King Charles’ coronation, everything seems to have stayed the same between, for example, Harry and William. In the midst of all this, Charles reportedly tried helping Meghan in the best way he could and is said to have been the only royal to have contacted her and Harry after the Oprah interview.
Harry and Meghan go back a long way. The couple began dating after meeting at a tennis tournament in London in 2016, and it didn’t take long before love flourished. But already before tying the knot, some of Meghan’s friends felt she wouldn’t be happy with him.
Prince Harry & Meghan Markle
In a 2019 ITV interview, Meghan revealed that some of her friends even warned her not to marry Harry because of the media scrutiny she was about to face.
“It’s hard. I don’t think anybody can understand that. In all fairness, I had no idea, which probably sounds difficult to understand, but when I first met Harry, my friends were so excited, my US friends were happy because I was happy,” Meghan said.
Sadly, Meghan revealed that she had been suicidal while being a working royal, Charles sent her a letter. However, Meghan wasn’t satisfied with the then-prince’s answer, and the rumors said it had a crucial effect on a huge decision.
“But my British friends, they were sure he was lovely, but they said I shouldn’t do it because ‘the British tabloids will destroy your life.’ Because I’m American, I very naively didn’t get it. It’s complicated.”
The Duchess added: “I never thought that this would be easy, but I thought it would be fair, and that’s the part that’s really hard to reconcile.” She continued: “I’ve said for a long time to H – that’s what I call [Harry] – it is not enough to just survive something. That’s not the point of life. You’ve got to thrive and feel happy.”
“I really tried to adopt this British sensibility of a stiff upper lip. I tried, I really tried. But I think what that does internally is probably really damaging,” she added.
On May 19, 2018, Harry and Meghan tied the knot in a grand ceremony at St. George’s Chapel.
At the time, it was clear that the royal family had embraced Meghan. Especially King Charles, who performed an incredible gesture to the Duchess during the ceremony, as her father wasn’t invited.
King Charles escorted Meghan to the aisle at her wedding
According to royal biographer Robert Hardman, Charles asked Meghan if she wanted him to escort Meghan to the aisle. In his book Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II, Hardman wrote that Charles got a quick answer, but it wasn’t what he expected.
In fact, Meghan surprised the now-King, asking him to meet her halfway down the aisle. She wanted to make her big entrance into the chapel on her own.
“Feeling for his future daughter-in-law, the Prince of Wales offered to step in, saying he would be honored to escort Meghan up the aisle of St George’s Chapel to the altar. The reply, according to one friend, was not quite what he was expecting: ‘Can we meet halfway?’” Hardman wrote.
“Here was an indicator that this was no blushing bride, but a confident, independent woman determined to make a grand entrance on her own.”
