Meghan Markle’s ‘tearful’ final words before departing royal family revealed

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take a step back as senior members of The Firm in January 2020.By March of that year, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had made their final rounds of royal engagements and moved to Canada — and then onward to their more permanent home in Montecito, Calif.Now, amid Markle, 42, and Harry’s recent public appearances at the Invictus Games last month and visit to New York City for World Mental Health Day earlier this week, the “Suits” star’s alleged last words before officially leaving royal life — uttered quietly to a confidante — have resurfaced.Omid Scobie — co-author of the book “Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan” — reveals in the new biography what Markle’s supposed final words on that difficult final day. “It didn’t have to be this way,” she reportedly learned and whispered tearfully to the journalist.

The two were both attending the Association of Commonwealth scholars event at the time.Scobie then gave her a hug, he said in a piece written for Harper’s Bazaar.“The tears that the duchess had been bravely holding back [were] free to flow among familiar faces,” he wrote, adding that Markle was wishing things had gone in a different direction.Scobie continued: “The Duchess of Sussex emotionally [bid] much-loved aides farewell, with her flight ‘home’ to Canada leaving in a matter of hours.” “Meghan would fly back to Canada on the last commercial flight of the day, eager to be back in Vancouver Island by the morning before [her son] Archie wakes up,” he said.“To say [Harry and Markle] were crushed is an understatement.

It’s a decision that the couple still feel wasn’t necessary, but also wasn’t a surprise, given the lack of support they received,” Scobie wrote.Harry, 42, and the former actress have claimed over the years that.