Meghan Markle has posted a photo in an apparent show of support for her husband Prince Harry in the aftermath of his bombshell interview.
The black and white snap shows the Duke, 40, in a paradisiacal garden while clutching Archie’s hand and carrying Lilibet on his shoulders.
The Duchess of Sussex’s serene photo was published on her Instagram page hours after Harry took aim at the Royal Family in a no-holds-barred interview with the BBC.
He caused widespread disbelief when he complained in the sit-down interview that King Charles ‘won’t speak to me’ and that he was the victim of an ‘Establishment stitch-up’.
He also accused the Royal Household of interfering in his battle to have his UK police security reinstated – an allegation dismissed by both the Government and Buckingham Palace.
It is the second time in a week that Meghan, 43, has posted photos of their children surrounded by flora.
She shared three images on Sunday last week of Archie and Lilibet in a rose garden with the caption: ‘Sunday kind of love….with my little love.’
The latest sweet photo comes after government insiders flatly rejected the Duke’s extraordinary demand that the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper ‘urgently’ investigate the committee behind the decision to downgrade his security – with Whitehall sources pointing out that the body is designed to be strictly independent from political influence.
Meghan Markle has posted a photo in an apparent show of support for her husband Prince Harry in the aftermath of his bombshell interview
The Duchess of Sussex’s serene photo was published on her Instagram page hours after Harry took aim at the Royal Family in a no-holds-barred interview with the BBC
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Most say strip Harry and Meghan of their HRH titles after bombshell interview as backlash grows
Palace insiders said his TV outburst risked deepening the rift with his family, adding that his comment about the King’s cancer, saying he ‘doesn’t know how much longer he has left’, was in particularly poor taste.
In another humiliating blow for the Duke, a Mail on Sunday poll today finds overwhelming backing for the King in his row with his youngest son.
According to the survey, by Find Out Now, 64 per cent of voters back Charles, while just 36 per cent support his son.
It also shows that the public would like to see Harry and Meghan stripped of their HRH titles.
Last week it was reported that Meghan had been using the title in private, despite an agreement that they would not do so.
Palace insiders also railed against the BBC for letting the Duke’s outrageous claims go unchallenged.
After judges ruled against him over the security issue on Friday, Harry claimed the Royal Family had exerted undue influence over the Home Office’s Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures, or Ravec.
He said he was stunned to learn that two key Royal Household aides sit on the committee.
Government insiders flatly rejected the Duke’s extraordinary demand that the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper ‘urgently’ investigate the committee behind the decision to downgrade his security Pictured: Harry hugging his son, Archie, as Meghan raises Lilibet into the air
The Duke of Sussex caused widespread disbelief when he complained in a BBC interview that his father ‘won’t speak to me’ and that he was the victim of an ‘Establishment stitch-up’
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Charles is pictured here with his Harry in April 2019 as the father and son attended the ‘Our Planet’ global premiere at the Natural History Museum
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A royal source said their involvement was long established and insisted they had no ‘advocacy’ role. ‘They advise on what the royals are up to,’ said the source.
In his TV interview, the Duke suggested they helped influence decisions on behalf of the Royal Family and said he would ask the Home Secretary ‘to look at this very, very carefully’ and review Ravec and the Royal Household’s ‘influence’ on it.
But a Government spokesman told The Mail on Sunday: ‘All members work together to advise the independent chair on the protective security of the Royal Family and key public figures.
As part of long-standing arrangements these decisions have been taken by Ravec, not the Home Secretary.’
Meanwhile the BBC, which spoke to Harry near his home in California, admitted a ‘lapse’ in editorial standards over its coverage of the interview on Radio 4 Today programme.
It said: ‘Claims were repeated that the process had been ‘an Establishment stitch-up’ and we failed to properly challenge this and other allegations.
This case is ultimately the responsibility of the Home Office and we should have reflected their statement.’
In that statement, the department said: ‘We are pleased that the court has found in favour of the Government’s position in this case. The UK Government’s protective security system is rigorous and proportionate.’
It is a second time in a week that Meghan has posted images of their children surrounded by flora
In the separate post by Meghan on Sunday, Archie is seen touching a pink-tinted white rose
The BBC said it also should have given the view of Buckingham Palace, which said after Harry’s outburst: ‘All of these issues have been examined repeatedly and meticulously by the courts, with the same conclusion reached on each occasion.’
Harry vowed he would never bring his children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, to Britain and claimed that ‘the other side’ in the court case had ‘won in keeping me unsafe’, as England’s second most senior judge slapped down his Appeal Court bid to reinstate his police bodyguards when in the UK.
The Duke, who left Britain in 2020, alleged the Royal Household exploited security measures ‘to imprison’ members of the Royal Family, blocking them ‘from being able to choose a different life’.
He said: ‘It’s really quite sad that I won’t be able to show my children my homeland.’
Royal biographer and historian AN Wilson said: ‘You keep thinking, ‘Meghan and Harry can’t get any worse.’ And then they do.’
He added that since Meghan’s arrival, Harry, ‘a largely popular, merry prince who served his country in Afghanistan with courage and good humour, has become estranged from the British public.
‘Now, he is a humourless whinger, adrift from his former friends and speaks in the Californian psychobabble that Meghan has picked up among her ghastly Montecito neighbours.’
‘It cannot continue. The King should strip them of the right to dignify themselves by their royal titles.
‘Not just the HRH, but their Duke and Duchess of Sussex titles. They should become simply Mr and Mrs Windsor, free to sink into their pathetic, unloved, sunlit exile, and the decades of pointless boredom that stretch ahead – a hell entirely of their own making.’
During the interview with the BBC’s Nada Tawfik, Harry complained: ‘I’ve been treated differently to everybody else that exists, I have been singled out.’
Friday’s ruling is a bitter blow to the Duke, who said that, of all his court battles, this one ‘mattered the most’.
He will now be expected to foot the legal bill for both sides.