Gyles Brandreth, a longtime
friend of Prince Philip, issued a warning recently that support for Prince
Harry and Meghan Markle is “thinning out a little bit”.
According to the author, the late husband of the Queen reportedly advised
against royal family members “making themselves the story.” Brandreth
also served as the Duke of Edinburgh’s biographer. His statement comes on
September 6 as Harry and Meghan travel from Frogmore Cottage in Windsor to
Manchester for the One Young World meeting, the Daily Mail reported.
The statement comes as
the Sussexes continue to criticize royal life, most recently on Meghan’s
podcast on Spotify and her recent interview with US magazine The Cut.
“The number of people being as sympathetic to them [the Sussexes] as they
were initially does seem to be sort of thinning out a little bit,”
Brandreth stated to ITV.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry
are on a trip to the UK and visited Manchester recently. The couple is
scheduled to appear at the German Invictus Games 2023 and the Wellchild Awards
in London soon. Referring to their travels, Brandreth said that they were doing
“good works”.
“It’s good stuff. And
what they’re doing is they’re saying compassion in action, we’re trying to
highlight these things. And that’s what royals do, they turn up. Now the
problem here is that instead of focusing on their good works – this what the
Duke of Edinburgh warned about years ago – once you make yourself the story,
then you become the story,” Brandreth said, continuing, “What should
be the story is the good works you are doing. And so these two youth projects
they’re involved in… that’s what we should be talking about. In fact, we’re
talking about the family rift.”
