“It all feels very final and like a cruel punishment,” a friend of Harry and Meghan’s added. “It’s like [the family] wants to cut them out of the picture for good.”
Sources close to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at the time claimed the couple was “stunned” by the decision.
“Harry and Meghan have until early summer to vacate,” a source told Scobie, reporting for Yahoo. “Initially, they were given just weeks, but now they have at least until after the coronation.
“It all feels very final and like a cruel punishment,” a friend of Harry and Meghan’s added. “It’s like [the family] wants to cut them out of the picture for good.”
Now, new details about what really happened come to light. Royal author Omid Scobie, who is said to have been friends with Harry and Meghan, wrote in his latest book, Endgame, that King Charles wanted to punish the Sussexes. He also called it a “cheap shot..”
The sources cited by the author confirmed that a “significant” aspect of Harry and Meghan’s eviction was “undoubtedly” a repercussion for their release of the Netflix series just weeks prior.
Scobie claims Frogmore was Harry and Meghan’s “‘only safe place to stay when visiting the UK, as armed guards surround its grounds.”
According to Scobie, Harry was shocked by his father’s decision and called him on the phone a few days later, asking, “Do you want to see your grandchildren?”
Charles then made a “half-hearted declaration that they would always have ‘somewhere to stay.’”
However, this “didn’t give Harry much hope.”
Facing eviction from a home is always painful, but royal expert Tom Quinn goes as far as suggesting that Harry interpreted his father’s decision as “vindictive.”
Quinn told the Mirror, “The story of Harry’s change of residence may have come out only in the past few days, but in fact Harry quietly changed his primary residence as long ago as June 29, 2023 – on the very day he and Meghan were evicted from Frogmore Cottage on the Windsor estate. That’s the date given in new business documents filed in the US this week.”
The royal expert added: “At the time, few people realised what a slap in the face the eviction from Frogmore felt like for Harry – it was the last straw.”
