Renowned royal biographer Hugo Vickers recently shared his insight on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s future in an interview for The Sun’s Royal Exclusive show.
Vickers suggested that Prince Harry might return to the U.K. permanently without Meghan Markle. He described Harry as appearing “angry” and concerned about the possibility of being separated from his wife.
This comes after the couple’s move to the U.S. in 2020 following their departure from the monarchy, as they pursued philanthropy and ventures in the entertainment industry.
Talking about the future of Harry and Meghan, during an interview, Wilkinson asked Vickers, “Where do you think they will be in 20 years’ time?”
In response, Vickers used hand gestures to indicate separate directions and said, “I think he’ll come home.”
“He’ll come home, and if he does, we should treat him kindly because he may not particularly want to. I believe he’s quite angry,” he added.
When asked if he thought Harry would return alone, Vickers mentioned that if the situation arose, Harry’s father, Charles, would welcome him back home.
“Yes, I do,” Vickers responded. “The king has left the door wide open for him to do that, and he was doing such a good job before and…he looked so happy.”
“Usually,” he continued, “you’re happy when you’re doing your duty and you’re doing it for other people and you’re putting things into life. If you’re taking things out of life, at the risk of getting a lot of hate mail, I personally think that he looks like he’s petrified of losing her [Meghan] and looks slightly petrified of her.”
Newsweek has reached out to representatives of Harry and Meghan via email for comment.
This is not the first time Vickers has expressed his views on Harry and Meghan. He previously mentioned his belief that the duchess had caused unnecessary strain to Queen Elizabeth II in her final years.
Speaking to Wilkinson, Vickers likened Meghan’s introduction to the royal family to the death of Princess Diana in 1997 as one of the biggest crises faced by the monarchy in the past 50 years.
“I suppose the death of Diana in 1997 was a big crisis point,” he said. “But, at the risk of being controversial, will the arrival of Meghan Markle prove to be a bigger one in the long run? Who knows?”
“I was in Windsor the day they got married,” he said of Harry and Meghan. “And the popularity and the goodwill towards them was enormous.”
Dismissing the notion that the press was responsible for the decline in the couple’s popularity, Vickers stated that Meghan “succeeded in eroding that very quickly, and what I find unforgivable is the stress she put on the late queen in the last couple of years of her life.”
Despite Vickers’ opinions, Harry has not indicated any intention to return to Britain.
During an Invictus Games visit to Canada with Meghan in February, Harry told Good Morning America that he had even considered becoming a U.S. citizen.
“I have considered it,” he told show host Will Reeve, but acknowledged it was not a top priority at the moment.
“American citizenship is a thought that has crossed my mind, but isn’t something that’s a high priority for me right now,” he said.
