“Nobody attacks the royals,” she concluded. “I’ve never heard of a member of the royal family criticizing them the way Harry or Meghan does.”
It’s been two months since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s explosive tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey, but the ripple effects from it are still being felt around the globe. Now, a renowned royal expert is speaking out to say that Harry knew that this interview would effectively be tossing a grenade at his own family.
“He knew what he was doing,” royal expert Ingrid Seward told Page Six. “I can swear to you that, and he wanted to rock that boat. Quite why, I don’t understand, but he did want to. And then he did, and I don’t think he’s surprised by the repercussions or that he regrets it for a moment.”
Seward, who wrote the book “Prince Philip Revealed,” added that there are two things that she does not understand. First, why did they decide to tell everything to Winfrey? Secondly, she doesn’t understand Meghan’s claim that her request for mental health help was rebuffed by Buckingham Palace.
“I find that so difficult to understand … what she was trying to tell us there,” Seward said. “You don’t go to the HR department in the UK. You go and see a doctor, or you say to your husband, ‘Darling, I feel dreadful, I need you to find someone.’ Harry was in therapy himself, so he must have known people.”
Seward went on to say that Meghan struggled as a royal because “she has always had a voice and I think she just didn’t understand that as a royal duchess, you can’t have a voice.” She then said that Harry “didn’t explain to her the ordinary things about being royal. That it’s not about you, it’s about the monarchy — it’s not like being a celebrity.”
The royal author said that she was initially excited when “those twinkly brown eyes” that Meghan had joined the royal family, “but I knew she was going to have a problem, being American.”
“I think she had no idea she wouldn’t be able to say what she thought or wouldn’t be able to voice her opinion,” Seward explained. “That’s what she was used to all her life, and suddenly she’s in a straitjacket.”
In the end, Seward thinks that this interview that Harry and Meghan did resulted in serious damage to the royal institution.
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