The recent eviction of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle from Frogmore Cottage has drawn sharp commentary from royal expert Tom Bower. In an exclusive interview with Page Six, Bower suggested that the couple’s actions leading up to the eviction were a significant factor in King Charles’s decision.
Bower pointed to Harry’s memoir, Spare, along with his interviews on 60 Minutes and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, as provocations that strained their relationship with the royal family. “Harry wanted the royal family to come on bended knee begging for forgiveness,” he said, adding that Harry has “completely crossed the spectrum” into what he described as “the mad wilderness of deranged victimhood.”
In Spare, the Duke of Sus𝓈ℯ𝓍, 38, made several allegations against his father, including claims that Charles referred to him as the “spare” at birth, failed to hug him after Princess Diana’s death, and made jokes questioning Harry’s paternity. Bower’s remarks reflect a growing sentiment among some royal commentators that the couple’s public revelations have irreparably damaged their ties with the monarchy.
And the California-based royal also claimed that he actually has enough material for another book and only cut out large swatches to spare his family’s feelings.
“There are some things that have happened, especially between me and my brother, and to some extent between me and my father, that I just don’t want the world to know. Because I don’t think they would ever forgive me,” he said in an interview with the Telegraph back in January.
On Wednesday, the Duke and Duchess of Sus𝓈ℯ𝓍 confirmed to Page Six that they had been asked to vacate their English abode by Charles.
The monarch had reportedly put in the moving request just one day after Harry’s controversial memoir hit bookstores.
To rub salt into the wound, sources tell Page Six, the 74-year-old is planning on having another family member move into the five-bedroom home that sits on the Windsor estate — his disgraced younger brother Prince Andrew.
Although Harry and Meghan have lived in California since 2020, the incoming king has not offered the couple another royally owned home, which means that if they want any furniture or knickknacks, they will have to ship them back stateside.
The “Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors” author theorizes that the release of the “Frogmore story shows that Harry has to have no role in the upcoming coronation and he’s not welcome.”
“If he and God forbid she came, then they’d be the focus of attention and all the attention should be on Charles.”
