Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cWe intend to step back as \u2018senior\u2019 members of the royal family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty the Queen [Elizabeth II]<\/strong>,\u201d they made clear.<\/p>\n\u201cIt is with your encouragement, particularly over the last few years, that we feel prepared to make this adjustment,\u201d Meghan and Harry noted.<\/p>\n
In the years following the duo\u2019s exit, they publicly slammed the monarchy and made shocking allegations about their relatives.<\/p>\n\n\nQueen Elizabeth II, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry watch the RAF100 flypast in 2018. By: James Whatling\/MEGA<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cIn those months when I was pregnant [with Prince Archie<\/strong>]\u2026 we have in tandem the conversation of, \u2018He won\u2019t be given security. He\u2019s not going to be given a title,\u2019 and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he\u2019s born,\u201d Meghan told Oprah Winfrey<\/strong> during the pair\u2019s bombshell sit-down in 2021.<\/p>\n\u201cThere were several conversations about it,\u201d she claimed. \u201cI think that would be very damaging to them. That was relayed to me from Harry. Those were conversations that his family had with him. It was really hard to be able to see those as compartmentalized conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Suits <\/em>actress even admitted she regrets thinking that the family would protect her and Harry.<\/p>\n\u201cHad I really seen that that wasn\u2019t happening, I would have been able to do more, but I think I wasn\u2019t supposed to see it,\u201d Meghan told the former talk show host.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t supposed to know and now because we\u2019re actually on the other side, we\u2019ve actually not just survived but are thriving,\u201d the mother of two added.<\/p>\n
Meghan and the Spare<\/em> author now reside in a sprawling mansion in California with their two children, Prince Archie<\/strong> and Princess Lilibet<\/strong>. However, their decision to purchase the property wasn\u2019t an easy one.<\/p>\n\u201cWe didn\u2019t have jobs, so we just were not going to come and see this house,\u201d Meghan told The Cut<\/a><\/em> in 2022 about seeing the estate for the first time.<\/p>\n\u201cIt wasn\u2019t possible. It\u2019s like when I was younger and you\u2019re window shopping,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s like, I don\u2019t want to go and look at all the things that I can\u2019t afford. That doesn\u2019t feel good,\u201d the With Love, Meghan<\/em> star said.<\/p>\nRoyal journalist Tom Sykes <\/strong>said Meghan and Harry\u2019s home isn\u2019t the most desirable on the block.<\/p>\n\u201cI was in New York last week, and I was meeting with somebody who lives fairly near them, and they said to me that that house that they occupy in Montecito is like a source of laughing stock,\u201d he said during an appearance on \u201cThe Royalist<\/a>\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s kind of shameful because, of course, in America, if you\u2019re a billionaire and you buy a house, I mean, what\u2019s the first thing you do? Knock it down, you know, or at the very least remodel it, you know?\u201d Sykes said. \u201cAnd there they are, still sort of padding around in a kitchen that looks straight out of the Olive Garden, you know, circa 1994.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n