{"id":2298220,"date":"2026-02-24T21:20:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2298220"},"modified":"2026-02-24T21:20:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:20:40","slug":"meghan-markle-is-so-grateful-to-have-escaped-royal-family-following-ex-prince-andrews-arrest-exclusive-intouch-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/meghan-markle-is-so-grateful-to-have-escaped-royal-family-following-ex-prince-andrews-arrest-exclusive-intouch-weekly\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle Is \u2018So Grateful\u2019 to Have \u2018Escaped\u2019 Royal Family Following Ex-Prince Andrew\u2019s Arrest (Exclusive) &#8211; InTouch Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Andrew Mountbatten Windsor<\/strong>\u2019s recent brush with the law has left <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.intouchweekly.com\/tags\/meghan-markle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Meghan Markle<\/strong><\/a> feeling \u201ctotally vindicated\u201d in her and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.intouchweekly.com\/tags\/prince-harry-12287\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Prince Harry<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s decision to leave the royal family in 2020, a source tells<em> In Touch<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The former Duke of York, 66, has long been embroiled in scandal due to his ties to<strong> Jeffrey Epstein<\/strong> \u2014 and despite repeatedly denying any wrongdoing, he was finally <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.intouchweekly.com\/king-charles-speaks-out-after-ex-prince-andrews-arrest-on-his-66th-birthday-amid-epstein-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested<\/a> on Thursday, February 19, on suspicion of misconduct in public office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs much as Meghan finds the situation disturbing and upsetting, it also reinforces her belief that stepping away when they did was absolutely the right call,\u201d says the source. \u201cWatching it all unfold makes her so grateful they escaped when they did.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:86.5%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"photo-credit\"><span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/Meghan, Duchess of Sussex<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After their shocking <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.intouchweekly.com\/prince-william-wants-to-strip-meghan-and-harry-of-hrh-titles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">split from the monarchy<\/a>, Meghan, 44, and Harry, 41, decamped to Montecito, California, where they live with their two children, <strong>Prince Archie<\/strong>, 6, and <strong>Princess Lilibet<\/strong>, 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Meghan, this crisis with Andrew, and how the Firm has handled it, is just more proof that any notion of a part-time role for her in the institution simply isn\u2019t viable or wise in any way, shape or form,\u201d adds the source. \u201cShe views the whole thing as terribly corrupt and toxic and wants her family a million miles away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, \u201cit\u2019s a lot more complicated\u201d for Harry, notes the source.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s homesick and has been dreaming of this life where he and Meghan and the kids could divide their time and maybe even serve as part-time working royals, the way he pitched when they left,\u201d says the source. \u201cBut this situation has hammered home how deeply unlikely it is that will ever happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/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.intouchweekly.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Mountbatten Windsor\u2019s recent brush with the law has left Meghan Markle feeling \u201ctotally vindicated\u201d in her and Prince Harry\u2019s decision to leave the royal family in 2020, a source tells In Touch. The former Duke of York, 66, has long been embroiled in scandal due to his ties to Jeffrey Epstein \u2014 and despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2298221,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2298220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Meghan-Markle-Is-\u2018So-Grateful-to-Have-\u2018Escaped-Royal-Family.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298220","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=2298220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2298222,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298220\/revisions\/2298222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2298221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}