Gyles Brandreth, a longtime friend of Prince Philip, issued a warning today that support for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is “thinning down a little bit.”
The late husband of the Queen reportedly advised against Royal Family members “making themselves the tale,” according to the author who also served as the Duke of Edinburgh’s biographer.
Mr. Brandreth made his statement today as Harry and Meghan traveled from Frogmore Cottage in Windsor to Manchester for the One Young World meeting.
It happens as the Sussexes continue to criticize royal life, most recently with Meghan’s podcast on Spotify and her recent interview with US magazine The Cut.
“The amount of people being as sympathetic to them [the Sussexes] as they were originally does appear to be kind of dwindling out a little bit,” Mr. Brandreth said in an interview with ITV.
At St. Paul’s Cathedral in London on June 3 on their last trip to the country, Meghan and Prince Harry
Gyles Brandreth, a personal friend of Prince Philip, is a guest on this morning’s ITV This Morning.
Mr. Brandreth and Camilla Tominey are joined by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby from This Morning.
Omid Scobie, a friend of Meghan and Harry, appears on Good Morning Britain on ABC today.
On This Morning, he said that the Sussexes were doing “good works” with their visit to Manchester today, a German Invictus Games Dusseldorf 2023 event the next day, and the WellChild Awards in London the following day.
It’s wonderful stuff, Mr. Brandreth continued. Additionally, they claim that they are attempting to draw attention to these issues by demonstrating compassion in action.
Where will Harry and Meghan go while touring Europe?
One Young World 2022 Summit is taking place right now.
Meghan is scheduled to deliver a lecture on gender equality in Manchester, so the Sussexes traveled there today. Young leaders from more than 190 nations attend the meeting.
According to The Times, the area surrounding Bridgewater Hall, which is the venue for the summit, will be evacuated 90 minutes before the pair arrives.
For their presentation at the conference in Manchester, Harry and Meghan have hired private security companies to create a “ring of steel.”
The event lasts from 6 to 8 o’clock.
Invictus Games Düsseldorf 2023 begin tomorrow.
The Sussexes will fly to Dusseldorf tomorrow to commemorate a year till Harry’s next Invictus Games after their journey to Manchester today.
The sixth games, which Harry earlier said will take place in September 2023. He and Meghan went to the 2022 Invictus Games in the Netherlands in April.
WEDNESDAY
On Wednesday, there are no set plans for the Sussexes. They have not said if they plan to see the Queen, who is now in Scotland at Balmoral.
the WellChild Awards on Thursday
For the WellChild Awards event in London on Thursday, when Harry will give a speech, the pair will return to the country.
In order to “honor the inspiring characteristics of the UK’s chronically sick children and young people, as well as those who go that additional mile to make a difference to their lives,” the WellChild Awards were created.
“That’s what royals do—they show up,” someone said. The issue is that, rather than concentrating on their good deeds—as the Duke of Edinburgh spoke about years ago—once you make yourself the narrative, you end up being the story.
The positive deeds you carry out need to be the focus of the narrative. We need to be discussing these two youth programs that they are participating in. Actually, the family divide is the topic at hand.
In her appearance on the show, Camilla Tominey, an associate editor at the Telegram, discussed The Cut interview and the Sussexes’ assaults on the Royal Family.
There’s no dignity in that, however, is there? asked host Phillip Schofield. I also mean that the Queen, who has lived a respectable life despite being 96 years old, must deal with this.
She and the Prince of Wales are allegedly both “bewildered” by what they are saying, according to rumors. We’ve been really compassionate and sometimes critical, but when you look at it, you wonder, “Oh, why don’t you both just stop up?”
Omid Scobie, a close friend of Meghan and Harry and a dependable media source, said independently today that the most recent trip for the pair was “very much about the job.”
He said on ABC’s Good Morning America: “The family and the institution itself would have no doubt been preparing itself for this visit after Meghan’s recent allegations.”
The epidemic stopped them from traveling until now, but for the Sussexes, this is very much about the job. These are the kinds of travels they have wanted to do ever since they stepped back.
The Sussexes won’t get as much media attention as usual today, according to royal expert Daisy McAndrew on NBC’s Today show, since Liz Truss, the next prime minister, will be announced.
Before the announcement, Ms. McAndrew said: “The future prime minister will be the focus of all the stress; one of those two selected will meet the Queen in Balmoral tomorrow to perform the hand-kissing ceremony and be named the next prime minister.”
There will be some attention, but not as much as Harry and Meghan are used to. They will share part of the attention.
In what has been seen as a subliminal threat to the Royal Family, Meghan told the American magazine The Cut that it takes “a lot of work” to forgive and intimated that she can “say anything.”
On March 11, 2019, Kate, William, Harry, and Meghan were in Westminster Abbey in London.
The Duke of Edinburgh was good friends with Gyles Brandreth. They are seen in a 1983 photo together.
The Meghan’s Archetypes podcast, which features interviews with legendary tennis player Serena Williams and singer Mariah Carey, has so far had two episodes published on Spotify.
In the podcast with Williams, the Duchess made subtle digs at royal life while describing her horror when a small ‘fire’ started in son Archie’s room while they were on a tour of South Africa.
She complained that those in charge of the trip focused more on “how it appears, than of how it feels,” despite the fact that she was compelled to continue with the couple’s formal obligations.
And when she began dating Prince Harry, Meghan said on the Carey show that she was treated for the first time “like a black lady.”
She said that before she met Harry, she was regarded “as a mixed lady,” but that after that point, “everything really transformed.”