Meghan Markle has always been considered to be the thinking head of Megxit. Royal biographer Robert Lacey, however, reveals the opposite. His wife Meghan would not at all be behind Prince Harry’s decision to get rid of his family, writes the author in his book Battle of Brothers as reported by Daily Mail in his article of March 26, 2024. It all started with a stubborn feud between William and Harry well before Megxit.
The rift between Prince William and Prince Harry has widened further over the years. However, Lacey claims that the estrangement between the two brothers dates back to 2002. At that time, Prince Harry was still a teenager and beginning to get talked about in the newspapers.
William and Harry: feuds dating back to 2002 and 2005
2022 is the year it was revealed to the whole world that Prince Harry smoked cannabis. The revelation made headlines and was quickly dubbed “Drug Shame“-“drug shame“, in French. The visible cracks between William and Harry date back to this time, reveals Robert Lacey in his book. Then, in 2005, three years after his cannabis stories, the Duke of Sussex suffered a new humiliation.
This time, during a fancy dress party organized at the home of Richard Meade, the Olympic gold medalist show jumper, Prince Harry was photographed wearing a Nazi costume. Following this humiliation, Meghan Markle’s husband felt alienated. “His friends remember that there were no discussions and that there were a serious break between the two brothers at the time“, reveals Robert Lacey.
William and Harry: the Duke of Sussex blamed, the Prince of Wales gets off easy
Prince Harry says he was blamed for his Nazi costume escapades while his big brother Prince William escapes unscathed, according to Lacey. But still, the Duke of Sussex and his friend Guy Pelly had been blamed for the “escapades“Rattlebone – a pub frequented by William and Harry. Yet, “ the real leader of the Rattlebone was William“, says the author.
