Royal reporter Valentine Low, who authored the book Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown, is countering Meghan’s claim and insisting that she was offered help as Prince William suggested she could work with his private secretary and learn what she needed to know. However, Meghan turned that offer down.
“They tried really hard to help Meghan, right from the beginning,” Low said during an appearance on Good Morning Britain (per Express). “One of them called Miguel Head, who was William’s private secretary, [and] had a meeting with Meghan. And in that meeting, he said, ‘listen, you’re coming to the royal family from a different place.
“You’re an actress, you’re a grown-up woman, we can do things differently. Let’s talk about how we do this. You might want to carry on acting, you might want to work somehow in the industry. Let’s have a dialogue.’ And Meghan said no, ‘I want to support my husband,’ so on and so forth.”
Low added that another suggestion was: “Sir David Manning, ex-ambassador, he cooked up this plan ages ago before he even met Meghan … suggested [she and Harry] could go and live in South Africa for a while, just like the queen and Prince Philip lived in Malta, like William and Kate lived in Anglesey.”
In his book, Low claimed that William offered to help his sister-in-law again following the documentary Harry & Meghan: An African Journey in 2019 in which the couple spoke about the lack of support from the royal family. But the Sussexes were “paranoid” about meeting with him to discuss their issues and concerns further fearing that it could be leaked.
Low wrote: “He [Prince Harry] was so concerned that William’s team would leak the visit to the press that he would rather not see his brother than risk it getting into the papers. To everyone who knew what was going on, this was heartbreaking.”
