Harry and Meghan 'exploited the Queen for NETFLIX', royal expert claims

Harry and Meghan have been accused of ‘exploiting the Queen for Netflix’ and making their top-secret journey for ‘clear the air talks’ with the aged monarch and Prince Charles at Windsor to please American producers of their upcoming documentary.

A royal skilled has claimed that the duke and duchess, who haven’t been within the UK collectively since they acrimoniously stop as senior working royals greater than two years in the past, made the key go to ‘all for his or her Netflix documentary’. 

Talking to MailOnline, Meghan’s acid-penned biographer Tom Bower sensationally branded the Sussexes ‘the Royal Household’s worst traducers’ and accused the couple of ‘exploiting an outdated, unwell girl to spice up their credibility and coffers’.

In the meantime, royal correspondent Robert Jobson mentioned that it was ‘important’ that William and Kate weren’t concerned within the assembly. The brothers’ relationship has been at all-time low since Harry pressed the nuclear button on his royal life.  

Netflix is predicted to ship a digicam crew to comply with Harry and Meghan after they meet the Ukraine crew on the Invictus Video games for injured army veterans in The Netherlands for his or her documentary in regards to the Paralympic-style video games.  

However critics have accused the royal couple of ‘cashing in’ on the Video games by permitting Netflix, with whom they’ve signed a $100million deal, into non-public conferences. And royal specialists imagine the VVIP standing given to the couple will permit Netflix to painting the couple in a beneficial gentle, as they take care of the fallout from their bombshell interview with Oprah final yr. 

Speaking about Harry and Meghan’s summit with the Queen and Charles, Mr Bower mentioned final evening: ‘I’ve little doubt it was all carried out for his or her Netflix documentary. The Queen’s advisers failed to guard her from being exploited by the Royal Household’s worst traducers, whereas the Sussexes exploited an outdated, unwell girl to spice up their credibility and coffers.’ 

Mr Jobson informed the Mirror: ‘Hopefully, in time the royal brothers can also break bread and finish this new conflict of the Wales’s, which is in peril of turning into one of many fictional cleaning soap type dramas Meghan used to star in. For William to try this, nonetheless, Harry should present that he (and his crew of PR picture gurus and advisers) can maintain their counsel at this early and delicate stage. If not, this promising growth would all have been for nothing.’ 

MailOnline has contacted representatives for Harry and Meghan for remark.  

Different specialists advised that the shock face-to-face assembly with the Queen, who  might be 96 subsequent Thursday and has skilled a sequence of well being issues not too long ago, was an ‘olive department’ after appreciable stress between the Sussexes and royal household.

Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty Journal, mentioned the go to would have made the Queen very completely satisfied regardless of the couple’s extremely publicised criticism of the royals. Of their interview with Oprah, they accused an unnamed senior royal of racism.

Harry and his father have spoken solely not often over the previous two years and he closely criticised Charles in final yr’s tell-all Oprah interview in California final yr for failing to help him and allegedly chopping the duke off financially. 

The claims had been disputed by supporters of Charles, who say he has been left desolate by his youthful son’s rejection. He’s additionally mentioned to be deeply involved about Harry’s memoirs, as a consequence of be revealed later this yr, which he fears might be additional used to settle scores.  

Harry and Meghan pictured on the International Citizen Reside occasion in, New York, USA, September 25, 2021

Talking to MailOnline, Meghan’s acid-penned biographer Tom Bower branded the Sussexes ‘the Royal Household’s worst traducers’ and accused the couple of ‘exploiting an outdated, unwell girl to spice up their credibility and coffers’

The Queen pictured on a go to to Porton Down science park close to Salisbury, October 15, 2020

Meghan final noticed the Queen at an ungainly Commonwealth Day service on March 8, 2020 (pictured) however has claimed since to recurrently communicate to her on the telephone and over video calls

The Queen, Harry and Meghan pictured on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in London, Thursday July 10, 2018

Hilariously, given their efforts to maintain the go to secret, Harry and Meghan, 40, had been noticed strolling over to Windsor Fortress early yesterday (Thursday) morning by a coach of excited churchgoers arriving for the Royal Maundy service

Miss Seward informed The Solar newspaper: ‘It’s a fantastic alternative to clear the air and supply an olive department. After every little thing that has gone on it should have taken so much for Harry and Meghan to go to Windsor. Additionally Maundy Thursday is a really big day for the Queen as it’s about forgiveness. She shouldn’t be one to carry grudges and I feel she would have fortunately welcomed them with open arms.’

The Solar reported a busload of vacationers had seen the couple visiting Windsor Fortress, with one telling the paper they ‘could not imagine it after I noticed who it was. We waved and so they waved again. They seemed completely satisfied and relaxed and waved to everybody on the bus’.   

Meghan final noticed the Queen at an ungainly Commonwealth Day service on March 8, 2020 however has claimed since to recurrently communicate to her on the telephone and over video calls.

Harry has not seen his grandmother in particular person since Prince Philip’s funeral final April when he flew over briefly from their new house within the US. And the Queen has not met their child daughter Lilibet. However their contact would have been restricted due to Covid restrictions. 

The duke has since launched a Excessive Courtroom authorized motion in opposition to the Dwelling Workplace claiming it’s too harmful to deliver his household to the UK after being stripped of his official Metropolitan Police safety. 

The couple are understood to have left Windsor yesterday afternoon and at the moment are greater than seemingly within the Netherlands to attend the prince’s Invictus Video games, the Paralympic-style occasion he arrange for wounded service personnel, which opens tomorrow in The Hague. 

Harry is suing the Dwelling Workplace after he was stripped on his around the clock taxpayer-funded police safety after quitting the UK.

He has since informed the Excessive Courtroom that he’s keen to pay for it himself when within the UK as he doesn’t imagine he and his household are protected on this nation as his personal privately-funded civilian crew of US bodyguards can not carry arms and can, he argues, not be stored up to date of the related intelligence.

Final evening a spokesman for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex confirmed that that they had been to Windsor to see the Queen. 

It comes after sources near the couple revealed that Harry and Meghan might be given the ‘VVIP’ standing within the Netherlands, affording them top-level native safety – which might be seen as an try and justify their non-attendance at Prince Philip’s memorial service at Westminster Abbey final month over safety issues. 

‘The Netflix movie crew will most definitely favourably seize Harry and Meghan,’ mentioned Discuss Radio royal commentator Charles Rae.

‘It’s going to look as if they’re nonetheless members of the royal household when they’re non-public residents. That would be the complete purpose to indicate individuals they’re nonetheless thought of essential individuals. It’s going to little doubt make nice play of the ‘VVIP’ standing they’ve been given by the Dutch authorities.’

The movie crew are anticipated to journey in the identical armed police protected motorcade that may take Harry and Meghan to the Zuiderpark stadium the place the opening ceremony takes place on Saturday.

They may even movie the emotional second Harry and Meghan meet members of the Ukrainian squad whose presence is tinged with heartache over the lack of 4 of their former colleagues who died defending their nation.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (pictured in 2018) are off to the Invictus Video games within the Netherlands which begin on Saturday

The Sportcampus Zuiderpark in The Hague, which is internet hosting the Invictus Video games occasion this yr

Safety on the Sportcampus Zuiderpark in The Hague is being stepped up, two days earlier than the beginning of the Video games

Police, army personnel and safety guards patrol the Zuiderpark in The Hague within the Netherlands

Safety on the Sportcampus Zuiderpark forward of the Invictus Video games which begins with the opening ceremony on Saturday

Police, army personnel and safety guards patrol the Zuiderpark in The Hague within the Netherlands

The journey marks a return to the highlight for Meghan whose earlier excessive profile appearances have been the Oprah Winfrey interview and a a lot panned look on the Ellen DeGenres present.

The Netflix doc sequence being filmed over the course of every week whereas the video games are staged known as ‘Coronary heart of Darkness.’

It’s the first co-production with the couple’s Archewell Productions and is being made by the Oscar-winning crew of director Orlando von Einsiedel and producer Joanna Natasegara.

They had been accountable for the broadly acclaimed documentary ‘White Helmets’ about first responders throughout the Syrian battle.

In response to Archwell, the docu-series will ‘showcase highly effective tales of resilience and hope from opponents on their journey to Invictus Video games’.

The assembly between the royal couple and the Ukrainian crew is predicted to be one of the emotional moments of the week-long video games attended by opponents from 20 nations.

Their arrival at Schiphol Airport was tinged with heartache after 4 members of the squad died defending their nation.

Sergey Smilin was killed in service on March 18 whereas former Invictus opponents Vladimir Motelchuk and Dmytro Oliynyk misplaced their lives in rocket assaults on March 29, and former trialist Serhii Karajvan died in fight on March 13. 

‘They had been all extraordinarily energetic within the worldwide Invictus group on the We Are Invictus platform, competing in occasions over the previous yr together with the digital London Marathon, and on-line Rowing championships,’ a spokesperson for Invictus mentioned.

Meghan is predicted to reach together with her husband in The Netherlands on Friday and she or he is predicted to remain for 4 days.

A minute’s silence might be held for individuals who have died within the Ukraine battle in the beginning of the opening ceremony on the Zuiderpark in The Hague on Saturday evening.

It will likely be Meghan’s first abroad journey since quitting the royal household in 2020 and shifting to California.

The occasion has been postponed twice because of the pandemic and it was on the 2017 video games in Toronto that the royal couple had been seen collectively for the primary time. Months later they introduced their engagement.

It’s understood Harry and Meghan is not going to get an viewers with King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima throughout their keep and should as a substitute spend the evening at a resort in The Hague.

Historically, the Dutch royal household hosts stays of overseas royals, however a spokesperson has confirmed no such olive department might be prolonged to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.