Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stunned the world when they sensationally announced they were quitting their royal roles.
Barely two years after their fairytale royal wedding, the couple left the UK to set up new lives in California and sign big money deals with the likes of Netflix and Spotify.
The shock announcement appeared to come out of the blue – but earlier this year, Harry’s long-held frustration at royal life was laid bare in his controversial memoir Spare.
And it seems he publicly hinted all might not have been well with his royal role three years before Megxit happened.
“I felt I wanted out but then decided to stay in and work out a role for myself,” he added, revealing he was motivated by his loyalty to his late grandmother the Queen.
In the same interview, just a year after he met Meghan, Harry also told of his future wishes for him and his children.
He insisted: “I am determined to have a relatively normal life and if I am lucky enough to have children they can have one too.”
Meanwhile, it has now emerged that around the time of this interview in 2017 – just before his engagement to Meghan, Harry, along with now estranged brother Prince William had a secret meeting with their late mother’s butler.
It is claimed the brothers met with Paul Burrell a week before Harry announced his engagement to Meghan.
According to a source, Mr Burrell “shed some light on their memories” of the late Princess Diana in the “very low-key meeting”.
The former butler, who also served as a footman for the late Queen, was known to have been a confidante to the brothers’ mum – as she called him a “rock”.
But following her untimely death in 1997 at the age of just 36, Mr Burrell wrote a book about her – much to her sons’ dismay.
Harry and William were reported to have previously last spoken to the 64-year-old after Diana’s funeral when they were 12 and 15.
