Meghan Markle isn't happy & is furious at Kate's meddling…she's panicking Prince Harry will be sucked back, says insider
11/09/2024 05:42 AM
MEGHAN Markle isn't happy and wants Kate to stop messaging Prince Harry, claims a royal insider.
According to the insider, Meghan, 43, has been growing increasingly suspicious of Kate and William's intentions, with reports that the Waleses are making more of an effort to encourage Harry back into The Firm.
The insider claimed that Meghan, who is now based in California with Prince Harry, 40, and their two children, Archie, five, and Lilibet, three, in a sprawling £12 million, nine-bedroom mansion in Montecito, is panicking that Harry will be sucked back into his old life.
A source told Closer: "Meghan isn't happy at all. She's panicking about Harry being sucked back into his old life.
"For her, it's far better for Harry to be on the outside, so she can have him firmly and safely in her corner. The thought of him cosying up to his family again has struck a note of panic.
"She's furious at Kate's meddling and feels as though she's trying to coax Harry away from her and get him back into their fold as a kind of revenge.
"Meghan still has major issues with Kate and partly blames her for them having to step down – so she's furious that she's even getting involved."
Speaking in the first episode of his two-part documentaryPrince William: We Can End Homelessness which aired on 30 October, the 42-year-old father spoke of his mother Princess Diana's influence, which resulted in passionately campaigning and him partnering with multiple homeless charities.
Alongside a series of childhood pictures of William and Harry with their mother – who died in a tragic car accident in Paris in 1997 – the future King shared: "My mother took me to The Passage [a homelessness charity in London], she took Harry and I both there… I’d never been to anything like that before and I was a bit anxious as to what to expect."
But the seemingly innocuous comment came as a huge surprise to many, considering it's been widely reported that William is steadfast in his tough stance on Harry's estrangement.
Relations between William and Harry have been strained for years, but their rift became even more apparent when Harry and Meghan spoke out against the Royal Family during their interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021 – where they claimed Kate had made Meghan cry ahead of her 2018 wedding in an argument over bridesmaid dresses.
Harry then made a string of bombshell claims about William in his controversial memoir, Spare, last year, claiming that William had once ‘knocked him to the floor’ in a physical fight and that he had also pointed his finger in Meghan’s face and branded her ‘rude’.
But the insider revealed that it was Kate Middleton, 42, who was the mastermind behind the recent name drop.
The insider explained: "Kate was very much behind William's olive branch and has spent more time recently encouraging him to do more in her bid to heal their rift.
She's furious and has very firmly let it be known, through Harry, that she wants Kate to stop messaging him
Insider
"Kate's desperate for them to make up and feels the feud has gone on for far too long. She's been doing whatever she can to not only make William see that, but also to persuade him to open up the lines of communication again with his brother and try to heal the wounds."
But whilst Kate has been acting as a "mediator" between the two brothers, it appears that Meghan isn't happy with her sister-in-law's tactics.
A timeline of Prince Harry's family feud
The first hints of friction reportedly came after William was introduced to Meghan when she was staying at Kensington Palace.
Once she’d returned home to Canada, William and Harry sat down for a brother-to-brother chat.
He knew Harry was already head-over-heels for her but it has been claimed he advised him to take it slowly.
The younger prince reportedly didn’t take too kindly to the advice, with one royal source saying he “went mental”.
Then in June 2019 Harry and Meghan officially split off from the charity they shared with William and Kate.
The Royal Foundation will be divided between the Sussexes and Cambridges as the couples focus on their own separate charitable endeavours.
Prince William and Prince Harry first established the Royal Foundation in 2009 before Kate joined two years later shortly after their engagement was announced.
The trio would often appear together at events and the Foundation had huge successes with projects like the Invictus Games for injured veterans and the mental health Heads Together campaign.
The Royal Foundation said the decision was made following the conclusion of a review into its structure – but added both couples will continue to work together in the future.
Harry and Meg were living in close proximity to Kate and Wills within the Kensington Palace estate, but they switched to Frogmore Cottage in Windsor before baby Archie was born.
The move further increased rumours of a fallout.
Harry also hinted in his ITV documentary “Harry and Meghan, An African Journey” that he and his brother had grown apart.
In 2021, Harry and Meghan give their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey where Harry accused his dad of cutting him off financially.
Harry then jetted back to UK to join William in unveiling a statue to their mother Princess Diana in the grounds of Kensington Palace. But sources claimed William didn't want to attend the memorial amid their ongoing rift.
In 2022, just before their grandmother the Queen died, sources claimed Kate acts as a “peacemaker” between the brothers.
Harry claimed his brother “knocked him to the floor” during an argument about Meghan, in his memoir.
In Spare, Harry said William branded Meghan “rude” and “difficult” during a row.
Harry alleged William “grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and … knocked me to the floor”.
He said he was left with a visible injury to his back following the argument in 2019 at Nottingham Cottage on the grounds of Kensington Palace, where he was living at the time.
In January this year, Harry flew in to be with Charles after the monarch’s shock cancer diagnosis.
Harry flew back to the US the following day – without seeing Wills.
In May he visited the UK for a three-day visit without seeing King Charles or Prince William.
The insider claimed: "Meghan is desperately trying to dissuade Harry from taking any olive branches. She's insisting that his family will use them against him and try to pit to against each other.
"She's furious and has very firmly let it be known, through Harry, that she wants Kate to stop messaging him.
"She's understandably worried about how this will pan out and, while she's always been able to convince Harry of what's best for them and their family, she's not sure how much longer she'll be able to influence over him.
"Her biggest fear is still that it could get to the point where he has to make a choice between them or her."
