The King Let Meghan and Harry Run Wild. It Will Cost Him

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Charles likely knew what was coming with Thomas Markle and welcomed them anyway. Now his reign looks like a squalid episode of Jerry Springer.

When the news broke on August 19 that Prince Harry and Meghan were moving back to Britain, Buckingham Palace let it be known that King Charles was delighted.

The uniformity of reportage was striking. NBC’s source had the King “welcom[ing] the opportunity to see more of the Sussex family” in a private capacity, and near-identical wording surfaced at the BBC, CNN, People and Hello! magazine.

Less than three months later, as Thomas Markle channels Jack Nicholson in his new mugshot, one wonders if our weak and indulgent old King Lear is yet ready to concede that he made an epochal-level mistake by “encouraging” (per my sources) Harry and Meghan to saunter back into the U.K. without a word of censure, let alone a challenge.

The disruption and chaos they have towed in their wake was entirely predictable, as it seems hard to believe that King Charles was not aware at least of the general tenor of allegations facing Thomas Markle.

His son, Thomas Markle Jr., according to the Sun, actually informed the FBI of his discovery of the material on Friday, July 10, THE SAME DAY that Charles hosted the Sussexes and their children at Highgrove.

Do we really believe that Meghan and Harry had not received any comms from the venal Thomas Jr. prior to this? Come on. They very likely were aware that their dark secret, which they had known about since January 2019, was going to come out one day, but its imminent revelation might even explain why the King gave them a private meeting at all, and indeed why this meeting was organized directly between Harry and his father, not through the King’s principal private secretary, Clive Alderton. Katie Nicholl of Vanity Fair was told by a source close to Charles that it was “completely cloak-and-dagger, orchestrated by the king,” and uncharacteristically last-minute.

It might also explain why Camilla felt she had better be there to record what was said. She drove over from Ray Mill in “quite a hurry” once the meeting was fixed.

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