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‘They didn’t want to hear advice’ Meghan and Harry sought ‘commercial arm’ to royal life

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced they were to step down as working senior members of the Royal Family in 2020. The couple then began their post-royal life in the US with their family and now have two young children. It has now been suggested, by royal expert and author Tina Brown, that Harry and Meghan wanted a “commercial arm” in royal life and “didn’t want to hear advice”.

Speaking to Washington Post Live, Ms Brown said: “There was bafflement in the Palace that they [Harry and Meghan] seem not to appreciate what these things could become.

“Were the Palace advisors treacherous? I think that the Palace is a snake pit, I think it always has been.

She added: “I think it’s like any crusty institution, whether it’s the BBC, or the New York Times or Buckingham Palace, it’s a crusty, dusty place which has got quite a lot of viperish people in it.”

Ms Brown said: “Frankly, the communications team at Kensington Palace and indeed for the Sussexes own team, who they hired after all, were pretty impressive communications people and very smart.’

“I think that they [the Sussexes] were able to hire anybody they wanted essentially to be their advisors – but they also had to listen to them.

“I think that one of the problems was that, they didn’t really want to hear the advice and they didn’t want the advice.

The royal expert added: “They wanted to be able to have a commercial arm to their activities. that was that the issue, that was the stumbling point.”

She said: “They saw, I mean Meghan certainly saw, the deals that there were there to be made that they had to leave on the table because they were royals.

“They wanted to have the Commonwealth patronage, Harry’s military patronages, HRH, all of the things that made them royal but they also wanted to go off and make commercial deals to get the kind of financial, you know, lucrative deals that they wanted, it seems at this point, because they wanted to be able to use that leverage to have that”.

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In January 2020, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced they were stepping down as senior royals, via their official Instagram account.

They said the announcement came “after many months of reflection and internal discussions”.

In the announcement, the couple stated that they “intend to step back as senior members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen”.

At the time of their departure, the couple said that they planned to balance their time between the UK and North America, while “continuing to honour our duty to the Queen, the Commonwealth, and our patronages”.

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex hadn’t seen the Queen, as a couple, since their departure from the Royal Family until they flew in to The Netherlands, making a UK whistlestop trip to visit Her Majesty at Windsor Castle.

In his NBC Today interview, Harry revealed that he and Meghan had tea with the Queen during their visit.

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