Meghan Markle Says Prince Harry ‘Lost’ His Father Prince Charles Following Exits From the Royal Family

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Severed ties. Meghan Markle revealed that Prince Harry feels like he “lost” his father, Prince Charles, amid the drama surrounding their decision to step back from the royal family.“Harry said to me, ‘I lost my dad in this process,'” the Duchess of Sussex, 41, told The Cut in an interview published on Monday, August 29, before referencing her own strained relationship with her father, Thomas Markle. “It doesn’t have to be the same for them as it was for me, but that’s his decision.”Though Markle didn’t elaborate on what caused the rift in her interview, the Invictus Games founder, 37, previously spoken about his strained relationship with the Prince of Wales, 73. “I had three conversations with my grandmother and two conversations with my father [about stepping back] before he stopped taking my calls,” Harry recalled during a March 2021 tell-all interview with CBS News. “And then [he] said, ‘Can you put this all in writing, what your plan is?'”The duke and duchess shocked the world when they announced in January 2020 that they had decided to step down as full-time working royals.

At the time, a source told Us Weekly that Charles was “livid” about the situation, and that he blamed Markle for pressuring Harry to make such a decision.During his conversation with CBS News the following year, Harry theorized that his father was unhappy that he had decided to “[take] matters into my own hands,” and do what he felt was best to protect his family from public scrutiny and social media attacks. “This is not a surprise to anybody,” the former military pilot explained of his mindset at the time. “It’s really sad that it’s got to this point, but I’ve got to do something for my own mental health, for my wife’s … because I could see