Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's 'destructive' move after making 'veiled threats'
A royal expert has claimed that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle 'destroyed themselves' by relentlessly criticising the royal family when they first stepped back from the Firm.
Meghan has long claimed that she has proof of her turbulent time as a working royal in the form of 'receipts', occasionally teasing that she would release the proof in another bombshell move against the monarchy.
However, while peace talks between Prince Harry and King Charles may be going on behind the scenes, a royal expert has claimed that the royal family at large would not be 'scared' of any more public jabs.
Jack Royston told The Sun's Royal Exclusive show that it 'wouldn't matter' if the Sussexes yet again spoke publicly against the Firm, given their "villain" status both in the UK and America.
Royston also believed that Meghan's claims of having 'receipts' about the royals could be her way of controlling a misconstrued narrative that was put across during the bombshell 2021 interview with Oprah.
He said: "The problem is with the way Harry and Meghan piled in quite relentlessly on the royals. Particularly, I do think the Oprah interview, they did botch it... it could have been done differently and better in a way that would be less toxic and destructive.
"The racism allegation, they have clearly tried to change it retrospectively or row it back. So, obviously, Meghan botched how she described that story.
"But there's always been this thing that Meghan's kind of intimated that she's got receipts, that was in the days after Oprah, one of her friends went on ITV and said, 'we've got the receipts to prove everything'.
"There was also a point where she was giving an interview and she said 'I've never signed anything, so I can say whatever I want'. So, she's always had this tendency to give these kind of slightly veiled threats that she's sitting on this bombshell.
"There was one point I think they suggested they'd found their diaries that they kept during these periods. They've always been floating these ideas that they're sitting on a kind of a massive nuclear warhead that they can drop at any point."
Despite the claims of such evidence, Royston believes that both the royal family and royal fans would be quick to dismiss any further claims given their drastically reduced public support.
"Ultimately, they destroyed themselves by the way they basically relentlessly attacked Harry's own family in a context where no-one was fighting back," he continued.
"And so, they may well still be sitting on unused material that Harry says he'll never share. But it doesn't matter anymore because even if they did, they're so uniformly viewed as the villains, particularly in Britain, but even in America, they're not viewed in this protective way anymore.
"So, even if they are sitting on some unexploded bombs, I don't actually think that the royals need to be too scared of it."
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