Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Eviction From UK Home "Feels Like a Cruel Punishment," Says Friend
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Eviction From UK Home "Feels Like a Cruel Punishment," Says Friend
It looks like the tension between Harry and his family is continuing, perhaps even more so after the release of his memoir 'Spare'
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex visit Redwoods Tree Walk on October 31, 2018 in Rotorua, New Zealand. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth - Pool/Getty Images)
Prince Harry and Meghan have been cruelly punished by being asked to move out of their UK home, said a close friend of the pair. It is now being reported that King Charles began evicting just 24 hours after his son's memoir Spare was released. A source told the Sussexes' favored royal reporter, Omid Scobie per Yahoo! News, "It all feels very final and like a cruel punishment. It's like [the family] wants to cut them out of the picture for good. According to The Daily Mail, the couple who now reside in California were initially given weeks to pack up their British home on the grounds of Windsor Castle after Harry released his memoir but now they have at least until after the Coronation in May.
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Barred from access to police security, there's just one space that meets the Sussexes' security needs when visiting the UK — Frogmore Cottage. Soon, that will no longer be an option.
The inside story of King Charles's "cruel" eviction of Harry and Meghan: https://t.co/6dQiSOSI6N
In fact, the book is believed to have gotten the monarch “spitting mad”. Omid Scobie says, "Harry and Meghan have until early summer to vacate. Initially, they were given just weeks, but now they have at least until after the coronation.'" Scobie writes that despite the security risks, and "the prospect of grandchildren Archie and Lilibet not being able to visit in the future, King Charles is sticking firm to his eviction notice." According to a royal insider, “I think the King is just fed up with the entire situation."
Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, have been asked to "vacate" Frogmore Cottage, their house on the grounds of Windsor Castle in England, the couple's press secretary said. https://t.co/r5NOzSGpJX
Prince Harry, 38, and Meghan, 41, were initially staying in Nottingham Cottage, on the grounds of Kensington Palace in London. Before the birth of their son, Archie Harrison, in 2019 they moved to Frogmore Cottage. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex currently live in California with their two children, Archie and Lilibet. The pair relocated to Meghan's home state of California in 2020 after stepping back as working members of the royal family. Frogmore Cottage was a gift to the couple from the late Queen. The UK home which is a 10-bedroom property on the grounds of Windsor Castle in Berkshire has been offered to the Duke of York, Prince Andrew. He was offered the smaller Frogmore Cottage when compared to the Royal Lodge mansion but is said to be “resisting,” according to BBC. The property was refurbished at an estimated cost of £2.4m in 2018-19. The cost was initially covered by taxpayers before being repaid in full by Prince Harry.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 01: Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (left) and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex arrive for the unveiling of a statue they commissioned of their mother Diana, Princess of Wales, in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace, on what would have been her 60th birthday on July 1, 2021 in London, England. (Photo by Yui Mok - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
It looks like the tension between Harry and his family is continuing perhaps even more so after the release of Prince Harry's memoir Spare in January. It became the fastest-selling non-fiction book ever after shifting 1.43 million copies during its first day of sale in the UK, US, and Canada.
A customer looks at copies of Prince Harry’s memoir “Spare” ("Reserve" in German translation) on display at the Dussmann das KulturKaufhaus bookshop, on January 11, 2023 in Berlin, Germany. According to its publisher, the book, about the British prince's personal struggles including losing his mother, Princess Diana, and issues with fellow royals, such as his father, King Charles III, his stepmother Camilla, and older brother Prince William, has become the fastest selling non-fiction book in the U.K., and currently tops online bookseller Amazon's bestseller list in several of the countries home to speakers of the 16 languages in which it has been published. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)
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A source told PEOPLE that the couple will be invited to King Charles' May 6 coronation. "It is such a momentous occasion for Charles, and he would want his son to be at the coronation to witness it. He would like to have Harry back in the family. If they don't sort it out, it will always be part of the King's reign and how he has left his family disjointed. He has had a reputation as a distant parent, and it would be awful for him for that to continue," they said. Despite the allegations Prince Harry made, it seems the 74-year-old is eager for the situation to "calm down" in time for his coronation.
Prince Harry chats with Prince Charles, Prince of Wales during a visit to The Nek, a narrow stretch of ridge in the Anzac battlefield on the Gallipoli Peninsula, as part of commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli on April 25, 2015 in Gallipoli,Turkey. (Photo by Niall Carson-Pool/Getty Images)
Royal historian Robert Lacey added, "Quite apart from [Charles'] paternal hope to reunite with his son, one of the jobs of the royal family is showing how to cope with the problems we all have in a human and thoughtful way. What will be a success for the family in the future is not reconciliation necessarily, but mutual acceptance of different ideas and priorities."
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Charles (C) poses for a photograph with his sons Prince William (R) and Prince Harry during their annual skiing holiday in the Swiss alps March 29, 2002 in the village of Klosters, Switzerland. (Photo by Julian Herbert/Getty Images)
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