Royal Insider
It has been a cataclysmic month for the royal family on so many fronts and as The Weekly goes to press one thing is certain, there’s a lot more hurt and upheaval to come.
With Prince Philip in hospital – he underwent heart surgery on March 3 – and COVID-19 preventing the Queen from visiting her 99-year-old husband, early snippets from their grandson and granddaughter-in-law’s interview with US talk show queen Oprah Winfrey started to screen. One can only imagine how the 94-year-old monarch felt sitting alone in her “Windsor bubble” as Oprah declared, “you’ve said some pretty shocking things here” to Harry and Meghan in the bucolic garden of a Californian home (not theirs or Oprah’s we were later told) and offered, “I just want to make it clear to everybody there is no subject off limits.”
Daggers had already been drawn when newspaper’s respected veteran royal correspondent Valentine Low reported that Meghan had faced a raft of bullying accusations when she was a working royal. The complaint came in October 2018 from the then Head of Communications for Kensington Palace and talked about “totally unacceptable” bullying of key royal household staff – the newspaper had the leaked
