PRINCE Harry and Meghan Markle are completely unpredictable and not afraid to throw anything at the Royal Family, blasted a royal expert.
Victoria Murphy alleged the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, could pose the “biggest crisis facing the royal family in the next 10 years”.
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The royal expert spoke to The Sun’s Royal Editor Matt Wilkinson on the Royal Exclusive show.
She spoke about shock waves that rippled across the globe after Harry and Meghan announced they were stepping down as senior working royals in 2020.
It came just two years after the celebration of their wedding at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle in 2018.
Subsequent bombshells exposed in their 2021 Oprah interview, the couple’s tell-all Netflix documentary in 2022 and Harry’s sensational memoir Spare the following year, all lobbed serious claims at the Firm.
Looking ahead, the Sussexes have been dubbed “unpredictable” by several royal experts.
Ms Murphy told The Sun: “I would never have seen that happening when they were first engaged.
“When Harry would say things, for example when they issued the statement at the end of their South Africa tour, that was a huge deal because they were speaking in really strong terms about how they felt.
“At the time that was big because we hadn’t heard that insight.
“But when you look into everything now, for instance in the books, I would never ever have predicted that.”
When asked what could be the biggest thing to rock the Royal Family in the future, the royal expert added: “So I think it will be something completely unpredictable.”
The royal experts also touched on the cancer battles that saw King Charles and Princess Kate take a step back from royal duties earlier this year.
It comes as another royal expert claimed Meghan is scheming the launch of her ultimate “weapon” to hurt Kate and the Monarch.
Tom Bower, who is recognised for his harsh criticism of the Sussexes, claimed the duchess, 42, is waiting to “drop another bomb” on the Royal Family.
In particularly stinging comments, even for a long-standing critic of the couple, he said: “The future for the Sussexes is pretty grim, I think they’re on a permanent decline.
Meghan Markle claims she has no political ambition – but expert says Royal Family should STILL be worried
By Summer Raemason and Jon Rogers
MEGHAN Markle may not have any political ambition but the Royal Family should still be worried, a royal expert has claimed.
Richard Fitzwilliams has warned that with some senior royal figures out of the spotlight as they fight cancer, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex can step in to focus attention on themselves.
The 74-year-old said that Harry and Meghan had drawn a huge amount of publicity during what he called their “faux royal tour” of Nigeria and could capitalise on that with their upcoming visit to Columbia.
Mr Fitzwilliams told The Sun: “The problem with Royal Family at the moment is that they are simply not able to do something which attracts attention on the same level – and attention is important if you’re royal.”
He said that with King Charles and the Princess of Wales both fighting their own health issues, this left a “vacuum” that less senior royals were unable to fill.
“There’s little doubt there is a vacuum. One’s really talking about really high profile royals.
“Of course, the Princess Royal and the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh and others do sterling work and carry out visits abroad.
“But they are not particularly high profile and I don’t think they particularly want to be.
“The institution does need this oxygen.
“There’s also no doubt that Harry and Meghan discovered this in what I would describe as their faux royal tour to Nigeria.”
Mr Fitzwilliams said that with the “success” of their trip to Nigeria, a visit to Columbia would create a huge about of publicity – on the Royal Familly could not currently match.
He said: “It’s going to take an enormous amount of publicity and the Royal Family will not be able to match that in any way that I can foresee.”
Mr Fitzwilliams feared that the Sussexes could use that publicity to take pot shots at the Royal Family.
He said: “They’ve shown in the last couple of weeks they’re not afraid to bring up material that would embarrass the Royal Family or refer to rifts with it.
“And that’s only a step away from overtly criticising it.
“They would say that they’re doing their own thing in a way they feel they are best able to do it.
“What it will do, however, will be to draw attention to the Sussexes and not to the Royal Family, at least not to the Royal Family in a positive way because the Sussexes and the Royal Family have a very deep rift. That’s the problem.”
“But whenever they need money, whenever they need publicity to stoke their reputation, they will drop another bomb.
“We’re still waiting for Meghan’s own autobiography, which I’m sure she’s penning, she’s a good writer, and it will be filled with vitriol and filled with lies.
“She will not tell the truth because she wants a sensational headline.
“That is the ultimate weapon she can deploy.”
Mr Bower made more shocking claims that Meghan is an “agent of poison.”
Meanwhile, an esteemed royal commentator picked up on hints that Harry and Meghan have no plans “to mend the rift” with the Royal Family.
In their sit-down CBS interview last week, the couple discussed their new project The Parents Network.
But even in their bid to spread awareness for a positive cause, Richard Fitzwilliams told The Sun that parts of the interview could “undoubtedly damage the institution” by reopening old wounds.
They used a clip from the infamous Oprah interview to highlight the online bullying Meghan said she struggled with.
Fitzwilliams told The Sun: “The way they are using a clip from an interview which did so much harm to the royal family.
“If you want a relationship of any sort and you give interviews of this sort that bring up memories that will undoubtedly damage the institution, clearly you won’t get it.
“It doesn’t look like either of them want to bridge that gap or mend that rift.”
The Parents Network aims to help support families who have lost their children to online harm, and to create a safer digital world.
The Sussexes have also spread the initiative while on their Colombia tour, as they visited a local school, the Colegio Cultura Popular.
They spoke to children in a session where the class talked about their favourite and least favourite parts of social media and technology.
Meghan said the group should aim to be “self-reliant and not tech-reliant” while Harry questioned them on the conversations they have with their families about managing their social media platforms.
The couple touched down in the South American country on Thursday and were greeted by the Vice President Francia Márquez and her husband Rafael Yerney Pinillo.
Royal expert Mrs Murphy said previously dubbed the tour “random” and “baffling”.
In stinging comments she also claimed Harry and Meghan have no idea what they’re doing since losing all their power as senior working royals.
Colombia tour
By Jonathan Rose
MEGHAN Markle couldn’t keep her hands off Prince Harry as the loved-up couple packed on the PDA during the first day of their Colombia tour.
The Duchess of Sussex, 43, beamed as she watched a performance at the Delia Zapata National Centre for the Arts in Bogotá with her hubby on Thursday.
In one affectionate moment Meghan placed her head on Harry’s shoulder before he wrapped his arm around her and kissed his wife on the head.
Other photos showed the pair holding hands and putting on a very affectionate display in the South American nation.
The Sussexes appeared to be unable to keep their hands off each other as performers danced at the first day of engagements.
In another tender picture, the Duchess placed her hand on Prince Harry’s knee as she giggled with her husband.
The pair also stared lovingly into one another’s eyes as they clapped away at the end of the performance.
Meghan wore a burgundy maxi dress designed by Johanna Ortiz, who has Colombian heritage, and worth $2,150.
Harry and Meghan were met in the capital Bogota on Thursday by Colombia’s vice-president Francia Marquez and her husband Rafael Yerney Pinillo.
They spent around half-an-hour at the vice-president’s residence, where they exchanged welcome gifts and were offered tea, coffee and traditional pandebono – Colombian cheese bread.
The Sussexes are being given a full security detail throughout their visit alongside Ms Marquez, who invited the couple to travel to Colombia for what has been dubbed a DIY royal tour.
Ms Marquez said she was inspired to ask Harry and Meghan to visit the country after being moved by their Netflix documentary.
“I saw the Netflix series about their life, their story and that moved me and motivated me to say that this is a woman who deserves to come to our country and tell her story and her exchange will undoubtedly be an empowerment to so many women in the world,” Ms Marquez said.
The Sussexes’ team has not confirmed how the trip is being funded, whether privately, through Harry and Meghan’s Archewell Foundation, by the Colombian government or other means.
The quasi-royal tour, which has many similarities to the programme of an official royal overseas visit, is the Sussexes’ second this year, after their three-day visit to Nigeria at the invitation of the West African nation’s chief of defence staff.
Harper’s Bazaar magazine, covering the trip as the only words pool, said Ms Marquez shared her personal admiration for Harry’s late mother Diana, Princess of Wales.
Meghan and Ms Marquez were pictured embracing as they greeted each other warmly, with Ms Marquez clasping Harry’s hands in her own as they were introduced.
The Sussexes were colour co-ordinated style-wise, with the duchess in a navy halterneck top and trousers and Harry in a dark blue suit and light blue shirt.
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