Prince Harry’s life has been in a continual downward spiral since the day he met D-list actress Meghan Markle.
Now he’s wondering just how everything went so bad, so fast.
And Prince Harry got one warning about Meghan Markle from Prince William that changed everything.
Prince Harry was given due warning about Meghan Markle
Prince Harry asked D-list actress Meghan Markle to marry him just a little over a year after they went on their first date in 2016.
Her status as a minor celebrity skyrocketed after she became connected to the British Royal Family.
But according to at least one expert, Markle was not ready for everything that came with becoming a Royal.
Former BBC Royal correspondent Jennie Bond said that was a stark contrast to how Prince William and his wife, Kate Middleton, handled their relationship in the limelight.
“Kate was given ten years to peer into the goldfish bowl of Royal life,” Bond said. “I think it was brilliant she saw all the restrictions and glare of publicity it brings. Because their courtship was so long, she was able to judge that she could hack it – and William could see that too.”
That’s why the speed at which Harry and Meghan’s relationship was moving seriously alarmed William.
“This is why William was correct to guide or warn Harry ‘Are you sure you’re not going a bit fast in this relationship with Meghan?’” Bond explained.
“It affronted Harry to be questioned like that but I think it came from a good place,” Bond added.
Harry and Meghan were married in 2018 after dating for less than two years.
This was far different than the path William and Kate took by dating for eight years before they finally tied the knot in 2011.
Harry admits he was warned about dating Meghan Markle
Harry admitted in his 2023 memoir, Spare, that William warned him about dating an actress.
“She’s an American actress, after all, Harold. Anything might happen,” William told Harry.
Harry and Meghan quit their roles as working Royals just two years after their marriage and moved to California.
Bond predicted that Harry would never become a working Royal again.
“And yes – I do miss him. Harry was the most popular Royal a couple of years ago, wasn’t he?” Bond said. “Having watched him grow up and knowing him just a little bit, he was a wonderful little boy and a charming, jovial adolescent.”
“At least that’s what we saw. He was brilliant for the royal family, he did bring a natural common touch and relatability,” Bond added.
But it all came crashing down when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle launched a full-scale assault on the British Royal Family.
Harry’s memoir, Spare, a high-profile interview with Oprah Winfrey, and a Netflix series that aired dirty laundry and cast aspersions on his family created a major rift in the Royal Family.
Now his relationship is strained to the point that his father, King Charles III, didn’t even visit with him on his last trip to the United Kingdom.
Prince Harry should have listened to his brother’s warnings about dating Meghan Markle.
Maybe things wouldn’t have gone so very badly for him.
Informed American will keep you up-to-date on any developments to this ongoing story.
