Prince Harry seemingly claimed that he and his wife Meghan Markle were better at their royal duties than brothers Prince William and Kate Middleton.
The statement comes in an explosive new episode of the couple’s brand-new Netflix docuseries, with the Duke of Sussex adding that senior figures in Buckingham Palace were fearful of his wife’s popularity and how she was ‘stealing the limelight’.
Speaking during episode four, Harry claimed that when Meghan joined the family it shifted the balance – especially after the successes of their 2018 Australian tour, which he believes left the Palace feeling threatened.
The Express reports that he said: “The issue is when someone who’s marrying in, who should be a supporting, a supporting act, is then stealing the limelight or is doing the job better than the person who is born to do this… That upsets people. It shifts the balance.”
He continued: “Because you’ve been led to believe that the only way that your charities can succeed and the only way that your reputation can be grown or improved is if you’re on the front page of those newspapers.”
While Prince Harry didn’t go as far as mentioning his brother by name, he appeared to refer to him by mentioning a person who was ‘born to do this’. And two of Meghan’s friends shared the Duke’s beliefs that Buckingham Palace fell out with the Duchess after she grew increasingly popular with her tour down under.
Abigail Spencer, one of Meghan’s co-stars in the TV legal drama Suits, said: “The work they were doing, the speeches, the people they were meeting, it seemed to be amazing. And then I don’t understand what happened after that.”
