{"id":2181818,"date":"2025-11-30T15:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T15:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2181818"},"modified":"2025-11-30T15:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T15:30:09","slug":"harry-and-meghan-on-borrowed-time-as-duke-fears-william-will-make-ruthless-move-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/harry-and-meghan-on-borrowed-time-as-duke-fears-william-will-make-ruthless-move-royal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry and Meghan on &#8216;borrowed time&#8217; as duke fears William will make &#8216;ruthless&#8217; move | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A royal watcher claims Prince Harry must be fearing that the royal titles he and his wife, Meghan, hold may one day be taken away by <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-william\" target=\"_blank\">Prince William<\/a> after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was stripped of his. Biographer Tom Bower described <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/king-charles\">King\u00a0<\/a><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/king-charles\" target=\"_blank\">Charles&#8217;s\u00a0<\/a>decision<\/span> late last month to remove Andrew&#8217;s prince and duke titles, following allegations of further revelations about his younger brother&#8217;s links to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, as &#8220;ruthless&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Bower, who has written unauthorised biographies about the Royal Family, said that the move should serve as a serious warning to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex about the fate of their own titles after <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-william\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\">Prince William<\/a> ascends to the throne. The author claimed that Andrew losing his titles, including that of Prince, &#8220;was an unbelievable shock&#8221; for Harry, and it &#8220;changes everything&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He told <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/3am\/us-celebrity-news\/prince-harry-meghan-markle-on-36323849?utm_source=mirror_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=special_royalfamily_newsletter&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_term=&amp;ruid=cdb11aaa-52a2-4f94-866d-53aa58f579d1&amp;hx=5b90feee5c9271ac80803a0323377f0f5514ec15e2fd37716ce29538c137e4ce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Mirror<\/a> Harry &#8220;must really fear that William will strip him, Meghan and the children of their titles&#8221; when he becomes king.<\/p>\n<p>Bower claimed the pair are on &#8220;borrowed time and vulnerable now, because I don\u2019t think there is anything they can do to reverse the hurt they have caused Kate and William, and William is still furious&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Duke and Duchess, who stepped down as senior royals in January 2020, voiced extensive complaints about their time within the institution, including in a bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, after announcing their intention to step back from front-line duties and be financially self-sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>Harry&#8217;s 2023 memoir Spare described tensions between himself and William, and sharing private accounts about the famously secretive family is thought to have caused major friction between the two brothers.<\/p>\n<p>The Duke and Duchess now live in Montecito, California, with their two children. They continue to run their various charitable endeavours, as well as launching lucrative commercial deals. These included a production agreement with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/netflix\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\">Netflix<\/a>, thought to be worth tens of millions of pounds to produce content for the streaming giant.<\/p>\n<p>Critics, including Bower, have accused them of trading off their royal status, something the couple reject.<\/p>\n<p>The Duke and Duchess of Sussex still retain their royal titles and HRH style, but as per a mutual agreement with the Firm, they do not use the latter in a commercial context.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Despite the huge sums they reportedly agreed with Netflix, Bower claims the Sussexes have &#8220;a real problem&#8221; because neither of them is making any &#8220;serious money&#8221;, so &#8220;the threat is they\u2019ll do something foolish and damaging to the royal family&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>However, Bower noted that taking away their titles wouldn&#8217;t be as easy a decision as taking away Andrew&#8217;s, and that King Charles won&#8217;t do it.<\/p>\n<p>He also acknowledged there&#8217;s &#8220;no reason ostensibly at the moment to strip them of their titles, they haven\u2019t done anything embarrassing,&#8221; other than, as he claims, &#8220;trading&#8221; on them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They would have to be very careful about how they do it, but I think it is inevitable,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the King officially stripped Andrew of his HRH style and prince title, while removing his dukedom from the Roll of the Peerage over Andrew&#8217;s &#8220;serious lapses&#8221; of judgment. It was revealed that the royal would now be known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.<\/p>\n<p>The move followed the publication of posthumous memoirs by Andrew&#8217;s accuser, Virginia Giuffre, and the US Government&#8217;s release of documents from Epstein&#8217;s estate.<\/p>\n<p>It was alleged that Andrew had emailed Epstein in 201,1, saying &#8220;we&#8217;re in this together&#8221;, three months after he claimed he had broken all contact with the sex offender.<\/p>\n<p>The former Duke of York has faced allegations that he sexually assaulted a teenage Ms Giuffre after she was trafficked by Epstein. Andrew strenuously denies the accusations and any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>A representative for the Sussexes declined to comment. Express.co.uk has also reached out to Kensington Palace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A royal watcher claims Prince Harry must be fearing that the royal titles he and his wife, Meghan, hold may one day be taken away by Prince William after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was stripped of his. Biographer Tom Bower described King\u00a0Charles&#8217;s\u00a0decision late last month to remove Andrew&#8217;s prince and duke titles, following allegations of further revelations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2181819,"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":[346744,346745,23067,22730,23068,29957],"class_list":["post-2181818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-harry","tag-meghan","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-william","tag-william"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Harry-and-Meghan-on-borrowed-time-as-duke-fears-William.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181818","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=2181818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181820,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181818\/revisions\/2181820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}