Daily Mirror royal editor Russell Myers said in the podcast Pod Save the Queen that Harry and Meghan have to take responsibility for “their own actions” instead of complaining about what was taken from them after they stepped back from their royal roles.
Myers said that the couple still has “loads of money” for their security detail and should not expect the royal family’s coffers to fund them for this expense. The royal expert said that Harry and Meghan do not deserve the taxpayers’ funding because they are no longer working royals.
In the Winfrey interview, Harry and Meghan said that they were worried for their safety when the palace decided to pull back their security detail. Harry also said that his father, Prince Charles, cut him off financially as soon as they quit their royal duties.
But Myers said he’s “distressed” to hear what Harry and Meghan had to say since they still continue to earn a lot from their Netflix and Spotify deals, as well as Harry’s inheritance. The royal expert said that Harry’s comments are quite “inflammatory” to the British public knowing that he still has millions of dollars in the bank.
It comes as another royal commentator said Charles still privately funded the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in between their move to Canada and the U.S. Katie Nicholl said that the Prince of Wales was “frustrated” to learn what his son told Winfrey, and many staff members working for Charles were taken aback by Harry’s claims as well.
Another claim the couple made during the interview with Winfrey was debunked by their own staff. Meghan told Winfrey that she and Prince Harry were married in a private ceremony three days before their public wedding.
However, a spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said that what actually happened was an exchange of “personal vows” between just the couple and the Archbishop of Canterbury. This private ceremony was not legal but only “symbolic” since their legal wedding was the one the public watched on May 19, 2018. Harry and Meghan had to issue a statement after British taxpayers complained that they shouldered a $32 million wedding that was “belittled” by the bride.
The confirmation has drawn another backlash as royal fans said Prince Harry and Meghan cannot be trusted with the truth. Some claimed that this statement puts doubts on all the things the couple said in the interview and Meghan might have misremembered and misunderstood much of her life as royal.