{"id":2117985,"date":"2025-10-27T09:32:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T09:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2117985"},"modified":"2025-10-27T09:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T09:32:17","slug":"prince-harry-meghan-markles-exit-left-late-queen-blindsided-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prince-harry-meghan-markles-exit-left-late-queen-blindsided-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry & Meghan Markle\u2019s Exit Left Late Queen \u2018Blindsided\u2019 \u2014 Source"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, left their royal lives behind in January 2020. The couple\u2019s decision to exit the royal family reportedly made the late Queen Elizabeth II feel \u201cblindsided.\u201d The late Queen allegedly wished to see both the Duke of Sussex and the Duchess of Sussex as full-time working royals. However, the Sussexes allegedly desired a more \u201cindependent life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle\u2019s royal exit had late Queen shocked, per expert<\/h2>\n

The late Queen Elizabeth II reportedly felt shocked when her grandson, Prince Harry, and his wife, Meghan Markle, decided to step down from their royal duties and leave the royal family to move to Canada at first and then to California. <\/p>\n

As reported by The Sun<\/a>, in their new documentary, Katie Nicholls, a royal expert, shared their experience involving that situation. The expert said, \u201cI remember going straight to the Entertainment Tonight studios to cover this story.\u201d The person continued, \u201cTrying to reach every member of the palace press office that I could and every single line going to voicemail.\u201d<\/p>\n

Per the news outlet, Katie Nicholls further explained, \u201cIt was very evident that these palace courtiers were locked in crisis talks.\u201d The expert continued, \u201cBecause they weren\u2019t expecting the announcement either.\u201d The person then added that Meghan Markle<\/a> and Prince Harry tried their best to underplay the news. However, that reportedly affected the other members of the royal family in a major way.<\/p>\n

The royal expert also said in the documentary, \u201cI think Harry and Meghan have subsequently tried to paint their own narrative.\u201d The person continued, \u201cThat makes it appear that it wasn\u2019t quite the bombshell that it was.\u201d <\/p>\n

Katie Nicholls explained that palace courtiers said that the late Queen Elizabeth II felt \u201cblindsided\u201d by the news. The Duke of Sussex<\/a> and Duchess of Sussex allegedly thought that their plan was completely thought out. However, according to the royal expert, insiders thought it to be premature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.realitytea.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, left their royal lives behind in January 2020. The couple\u2019s decision to exit the royal family reportedly made the late Queen Elizabeth II feel \u201cblindsided.\u201d The late Queen allegedly wished to see both the Duke of Sussex and the Duchess of Sussex as full-time working royals. However, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2117986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[21818,310803,23067,22730,24085],"class_list":["post-2117985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-lifestyle","tag-lifestyle-news","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry","tag-queen-elizabeth-ii"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Prince-Harry-Meghan-Markles-Exit-Left-Late-Queen-\u2018Blindsided.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2117985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2117987,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117985\/revisions\/2117987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2117986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2117985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2117985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}