“Harry being governor-general of Canada wouldn’t happen because you need to be Canadian, various ideas of them working across Africa had security implications, or someone else was already doing the job – it was almost an impossible task,” they added.
A poll at the time indicated broad Canadian support for the Duke to take over the position from Julie Payette, a former astronaut, with 61 per cent in favour of the self-described Royal “spare” in the role.
Meghan had lived in Toronto, where she filmed the legal drama Suits, before she began dating the Duke in 2016, and it was where the couple initially relocated after leaving the UK.
But during the discussions between the three principal private secretaries of the late Queen, the then Prince Charles and Prince William, as well as a handful of senior communications personnel from each household, no workable solution was found.
Myers writes that, at the time, Meghan left her husband “to face the music alone”, as she joined their son in Canada amid her now well-documented growing unhappiness within the royal fold.
Of the different options available to the couple – who pitched a half-in, half-out arrangement – the senior palace source explained that they “got nothing in return” in the way of useful ideas from the Duke and Duchess.
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