The Duke of Sussex “threw away life as an action man to become a luxury fairy doer” with a “wake life on the West Coast”, a royal biographer claimed.
Prince Harry (36) and Meghan Markle (39) currently live in their $ 14 million mansion in Santa Barbara with one-year-old son Archie, and have cost as much as £ 100 million to Spotify and Netflix.
Royal pundit Angela Levin, who wrote Harry: Conversations with the prince in 2018, claims that the duke has become a ‘shadow of his former self’ since moving to California.
When she wrote in The Sunday Telegraph, she said that while Prince Harry ‘pretended to be’ the ‘reserve’ for Prince William, he seemed to accept that he was second to Meghan ‘.
The Duke of Sussex “threw away life as an action man to become a luxury fairy doer” with an ‘awake West Coast life’, a royal biographer claimed
The biographer said that Prince Harry’s recent appearance was ‘not of character’ from the royal she once knew, who would immediately identify with everyone he spoke to.
She referred to his previous work with Help for Heroes, those with disabilities and teenagers from dysfunctional homes – but said it felt like a distant memory compared to the version of the prince she sees today.
The biographer also referred to this year’s Remembrance Day, when Harry and Meghan celebrated by visiting the Los Angeles National Cemetery to pay tribute to fallen United States soldiers.
The couple are knee-jerk because they make arrangements for fashion photographer Lee Morgan to capture their personal memory, and many describe the visit as a ‘publicity stunt’.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have raised as much as £ 100 million for Spotify and Netflix
Angela said that Harry in particular would have been a great consolation to Brits during the Covid pandemic, but regretted that he was hidden by the whole pandemic in Santa Barbara.
Yet she said reports that the couple wanted a twelve-month extension of the Megxit deal indicated the duke was missing “all the privileges” of being a royal, including his honorary titles and charity work.
She said: “Maybe he just realizes that royalty is forever, but not celebrity.”
Her comments came days after Hugo Vickers, the royal expert, said Prince Harry was’ isolated from his family, the army, his friends and the Commonwealth ‘in the US, and told The Telegraph:’ This is a meaningless existence in self-exile. ‘
She claims that Harry, who in the photo gave a TIME 100 talk from his home in California last year, has become a ‘shadow of his former self’ since moving to the US.
The Royal Biographer compares the actions of Prince Harry to those of Prince William (38) and Kate Middleton (38) and adds: ‘During the NHS handshake, I thought how wonderful it would have been, after the Cambridges clapped, to to hear from him. ‘
Earlier this week, the Duke and Duchess launched the website for their non-profit organization Archewell and set out their goal to ‘build a better world’ in an open letter posted online.
However, the site joins the couple’s commercial ventures prominently – Archewell Audio, the brand they chose for their £ 30 million podcasting deal with Spotify, and Archewell Productions, their chosen name for their Netflix production, said that it is worth as much as £ 100 million. .
Since retiring as senior royals in March and moving to the US, Harry and Meghan are currently working to officially launch the website and the philosophy behind their organization Archewell.
The royal expert said that the duke’s recent actions were ‘out of character’ for him (photo on the memorial day)
Their decision to leave was just as much based on financial as personal freedom and the huge sums – presumably more than £ 100 million – they earned from offers with Spotify and Netflix give them the capital to live their new lifestyle and public to pursue goals.
The announcement follows their first Spotify podcast on Tuesday, in which their son Archie made his broadcast debut.
Commentators have already speculated that Harry and Meghan will have to attract large audiences to justify the lucrative contract their production company Archewell Audio has signed.