Meghan’s kids will be SO annoyed when they grow up & realise how they were used by her on Instagram
Let’s just dwell a little bit on uh Liet and Archie. We saw a little bit more in a video posted on Megan’s Instagram page. Well, I’m getting fed up with seeing the back of their heads and hearts stuck over their faces when they go to Disneyland and things. I mean, either show them or don’t show them at all, but I mean, you can see what she’s up to.
Um, I just think there’s going to be a terrible revenge when those children grow up. I mean, I don’t know about you, but I would be very annoyed if I found that I’d been used in all these posts in a strange way by my parents. And equally, they’re also going to grow up at one point and discover that they never knew their grandparents, their grandfathers.
Um, I mean, Mr. Markle, I personally think, is a—of course, he’s a broken man, but he’s a rather sweet man, actually, and he did a lot for that girl when she was growing up. Don’t you think? Yeah, I—I spoke to him a couple of days ago, actually, and he’s just absolutely still distraught about the fact that he still doesn’t have contact with Megan.
And then, of course, um, they will also wake up to realize that they could have been the cousins to Prince George and the future king, and they could have been over here having a nice time with the other children, their cousins. They aren’t going to know them.
I mean, the only hope in that direction, if I’m sort of, you know, being serious and less aggressive about it, is I think Princess Eugenie could do quite a lot because she’s obviously the one who’s close to Prince Harry. And, if you remember all that Portugal business—they were going to buy a house and things—and if those children then met children, then perhaps eventually they can meet, you know, Prince George and the others.
But I don’t know. It seems—I think I would be, I could just see a horrible revenge coming for their children. Interesting.
Well, at the Platinum Jubilee several years ago, I took a wrong turn after one of the events, and I walked into an area I wasn’t meant to be. And Peter Phillips’ children, Mike and Zara’s children, were all playing around, jumping on each other, jumping on Mike’s back, jumping on Peter Phillips’ back. And it was actually a really joyful sight to watch.
And that’s what occurred to me there. I thought, wouldn’t this be great if Libert and Archie could hang around all their cousins? And I mean, you know, I’ve said it before, but the Queen always had somebody with her when the Sussexes came to see her—to stop them from taking photographs and, you know, exploiting the situation.
I mean, it’s pretty interesting, this new Instagram PR strategy, though. I must say, I know we talk about the backs of the children’s heads—the children’s faces were front and center of those videos. So, it seems like this new PR team has just chucked everything that she previously had out the door and said, “No, we want you twerking. We want the kids’ faces, and we want everything out there, and we want the public to be able to dissect it.”
So, that’s a very interesting shift for that brand, Megan and Harry. And I just—I really think that, uh, it’s tragic that the King and Thomas Markle Sr. were not included at all and are not in the children’s lives. It’s really a tragedy.
Well, because we had the contrast there with William, where we had two pictures of all his three children. There was a before and after, wasn’t there? There was a before where they were all pictured cuddling their father, and then they’ve got him on the floor, having a little play with him.
And what did you make of the contrast between those two? Do you remember the royal wedding pictures with Patrick Lichfield took again? There was a moment when he said, “Okay, guys, it’s all over,” and they all felt slumped down together. And he took a quite sweet picture of everybody—bridesmaids and all—sort of tumbling over each other.
Yeah. I mean, it’s completely different. And, of course, I’ve said this before, too, but can you come back to Mother’s Day? I thought you celebrated your own mother on Mother’s Day, not yourself as a mother. And again, we’ve got Prince Harry as a father being celebrated. So, obviously, she—she’s not going to celebrate either the King or Mr. Markle.
So, yeah. Not her own father, who paid all her school fees, exactly. Took her on the set and everything. You know, and I’m just going back to—sorry to keep going back to the past, but why did Mr. Markle never meet Prince Harry? And there can only be three reasons for that.
One, that she was ashamed of him, which I think was pretty unattractive. Two, possibly that she thought he’d done something. But when Prince Harry rang Mr. Markle up and asked if he could marry his daughter, he said, “You can marry her as long as you never raise your hand against her.” And, of course, we don’t talk like that. So, maybe he lives in a world where people have done that sort of thing.
I don’t—I dispute that as well. I don’t think that’s the case. The third reason is that I think she was worried he might actually have warned Prince Harry that this is not what you’re getting with this girl. They’re not two normal families, are they? Both married into—I mean, let’s be honest. Let’s be honest that both families have quite a lot of history. They’ve got a lot.
Mr. Markle should have been at the wedding, and they should have flown him over, stuck him in a health farm in the Shetlands or somewhere. Prince Harry should have gone up to see him, and if he couldn’t have walked the aisle, he should have been sitting there, because, as you rightly say, he did a lot for that girl, and she even admitted it in the early days before she distanced herself from him.
He lives three hours away. There is no excuse. And, actually, I have to say, some of the circumstances he’s living in, compared to the riches that Harry and Megan have, are appalling. And I will always defend that man because I think he has been absolutely wronged by that woman.
He’s in the Philippines now. Correct me if I’m wrong—he’s in the Philippines. Yes. Uh, he is there with Thomas Markle Jr., and they’re just trying to get away from it all. When we talk about privacy and, you know, Harry saying, “Oh, I want security,” they have beenounded. They have had to flee the country, basically, to try and get some peace and quiet.
So, he was seventy miles away, wasn’t he? It wouldn’t have been very difficult for Prince Harry and the children over there to meet him. I mean, and she talks so much about, you know, relationships and things, and she mucks up her own relationship, and one day, as you rightly say, he will die, and then there’ll be a whole lot of—you know, what’s Megan? Will she go to the funeral? She’ll probably make a whole thing about it.
And poor man—I feel really sorry for him because, if you listen to what he says—not what he’s reported, but actually what he says—he never says anything unpleasant, does he? That’s very true. Well, I don’t know about that. I think he does. I think he—over the years, I like Thomas as well. He’s been reported as saying, “It’s always, you know, um, it’s always twisted.” Okay.
I mean, if you actually listen to the words he says, he’s very moderate. And he was also very respectful to the late Queen, always, and admired her hugely. And what this couple have put her through is one of the things I shall never forgive them for in the last years of her life.
I hope it all ends well with Thomas because, as you say, I’ve spoken to Thomas in the past, and he’s a very lovely, but slightly—not damaged, but he’s quite, you know, been hugely affected by what he was thrown into. When it emerged that Megan married Harry, it’s very messy.
And I actually think that, without fixing the foundations of that relationship, both Harry and Megan—they actually won’t be able to pursue a sort of brand because it’s very hard to take them seriously when everything’s a car crash behind the scenes, publicly. So, I just think that, without fixing these family relationships, you can’t pretend to have this lifestyle brand with linen and things. It just doesn’t work.
So, I think that’s actually a bigger problem for them. Okay. From deep-rooted family issues, let’s try and settle something a little bit happier.
I was at Trooping on Saturday. I saw the Princess of Wales with Louis, George, and Charlotte. They seemed a little bit more grown-up. They seem a little bit more better-behaved, a little bit more— isn’t it? Children do grow very quickly at that age. But yeah, no, they were all great.
I mean, it was absolutely lovely to see. She looked absolutely stunning, I thought. And this is a return, really, to Trooping because last year she wasn’t on the dais. She was on the dais with the King and Queen. And that was quite a sight to see the three of them—William, Charles, and Edward—on horseback as well. It’s quite a sight. Absolutely. Yes. Magnificent.
No, it’s very good. And she was also at the Garter ceremony on Monday as well, looking lovely. It’s been quite a week.
