King Charles III has continually snubbed his daughter-in-law Meghan Markle and son Prince Harry, most recently choosing not to invite them to join the royal family at Balmoral Castle this summer. Meghan, however, is over the years-long drama, a source told Us Weekly.
“After [the release of Harry’s memoir] Spare, [he and Meghan] realized, ‘OK, we’re ready to move on. We want to focus on our future,’” a family friend told the outlet. “‘We can have meaning and importance separate from the lives we had previously.’”
That insider added that Meghan isn’t upset anymore, in part to preserve her own mental health. They explained, “Meghan doesn’t harbor any negative feelings. She just wants peace, and knows you can’t find peace if you harbor resentments.”
The source revealed that Meghan and her communications team are choosing not to address tabloid headlines about the royals these days. “Meghan’s team gets asked daily to comment on stuff that has nothing to do with their lives now. They have left it behind.”
Meghan feels freer now outside of the British institution, too. When she was a working royal, she couldn’t “be herself,” the friend said. “Most people are not really allowed to be themselves—if you’ve watched The Crown, I think that’s pretty understood.”
“There’s air and space and room,” they said of her life now in California. “She can just be who she is.”
Us’ source echoes what an insider told People in late July about how Meghan feels about Harry’s continual U.K. court fight to get police protection for their family when they visit the U.K. Meghan and Harry lost their taxpayer-funded police protection when they stepped back from their senior royal family roles in 2020.
“[She] supports Harry 100 percent, but she wishes he could let go of these lawsuits, be happy and live in the moment,” a former employee of the Sussexes’ Archewell Foundation explained to People. “She wants him to be free of all of this, but she also knows that because of everything he’s been through and his love for [her and their children, Archie and Lilibet], he can’t. She wants him to live in a world where he is not burdened by this,”
As far back as November, royal reporter Omid Scobie told ELLE.com that Meghan had chosen to set the royal drama aside. Even if Harry were to reconcile with his brother, Prince William, “I don’t think it changes Meghan’s position [about the family],” Scobie said.
“We’ve seen her in the last year really establish herself as an independent individual that is not riding on the coattails of her royal past or really even interested in being involved in that world. I know her team spoke about [how] she wasn’t coming over for the coronation because of Archie’s birthday, but I also know from speaking with people that there was also a desire to stay away from the noise and hysteria that comes any time she sets foot near the country, let alone the family. And the way they were treated during the time of the Queen’s death and the funeral really reinforced for her that she had not only made the right decision, but didn’t want to go anywhere near [it] again.
“They said it loud and clear that they were looking for conversations and accountability and for people to own their roles and everything that had happened, and no one has so there is no reason for anything to change moving forward. One could argue the balls are all in the royal family’s court, and we know that they’re not hitting them back anytime soon.”
