Meghan & Harry keep cashing in by piggybacking off the royal family – it's disgusting, expert says
Despite trying to "reinvent themselves", the pair are yet to settle on a particular niche
MONEY MAD Meghan & Harry keep cashing in by piggybacking off the royal family – it's disgusting, expert says
MEGHAN Markle and Prince Harry keep raking in money by "piggybacking off" the royal family, slammed a royal expert.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped down as senior working royals in 2020 and quit the UK.
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A royal expert accused the Sussexes of piggybacking off the royal family
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The Duchess, 43, saw her Netflix show With Love, Meghan in March this year
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Meghan corrected Mindy Kaling on her name in the docuseries
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The couple have since been embroiled in a bitter feud with the Firm.
Harry, alongside his wife, has continued to drag his family name through the mud, from their 2021 Orpah interview to his 2023 memoir Spare.
And, the latest blow to their fractured relationship came when the Duke of Sussex dropped some extraordinary bombshells in a BBC interview last month.
He filmed a rare sit-down chat after losing his appeal against the decision to remove his taxpayer-funded security.
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But since turning their backs on the Royal Family, the Sussexes have also battled several stumbling blocks while trying to carve out their new identities.
Meghan, 43, has this year released her latest Netflix series With Love, Meghan, in which she hosted Hollywood pals.
Shortly after came the roll out of her brand As Ever, despite the company facing a series of setbacks.
The mum-of-two then dropped her second podcast, Confessions Of A Female Founder.
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Harry meanwhile has been busy working on his Polo documentary on Netflix, and as ever his Invictus Games.
But despite trying to "reinvent themselves", the pair are yet to settle on a particular niche, experts blasted previously.
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Speaking on The Sun's Royal Exclusive Show, esteemed former royal correspondent Charles Rae accused the Duchess of still using the Royal Family for profit.
"I've got no objections to Meghan and Harry making money," he told esteemed royal correspondent Bronte Coy.
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"None whatsoever. However they want to operate now is fine.
"It's their royal connections that really irritate me. And they're piggybacking off of that a great deal.
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Meghan is also dropping weekly episodes on her new podcast Confessions of a Female Founder
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The couple have launched a barrage of attacks on the Royal Family since quitting the UK
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The pair stepped down as senior working royals in 2020
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"But I think Meghan is the one who's driving everything.
"And I think she will eventually come a cropper with all this.
"I mean, she says, 'I don't want to annoy the public'. Well, why not?
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"She's annoyed everybody else. You know, I mean, you know, she's. she's a very annoying person in my view."
But fellow expert Sarah Hewson, added: "I think it is in everyone's interest if she is able to make a success of this and make money off the back of this, because we know they've got a very expensive lifestyle, not least the security costs.
"And Prince Harry just having lost that court of appeal case, it is in everyone's interest, the Royal Family included, if they are able to be self-sufficient, if they're able to build a life, Prince Harry can do his philanthropy.
"Meghan can launch the business. I mean, I think that suits everybody."
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Royal experts previously slammed Meghan for using her royal title on a gift card, telling her "you can't have it both ways".
Meghan and Prince Harry agreed they wouldn't use their HRH titles after they broke from the royal family - but the Duchess of Sussex seemingly still uses it with her friends.
But, in a recent podcast interview, a photo showed a gift basket of ice cream and strawberry sauce Meghan sent to Kern Lima a year ago.
With it came a note on monogrammed paper, signed: "With the compliments of HRH the Duchess of Sussex."
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Sources said that while Meghan and Harry do still have their titles, they agreed not to use them for "commercial purposes".
The source said the note was a "personal gift" but the couple don't publicly use HRH.
Meghan also awkwardly corrected her Hollywood pal Mindy Kaling on her cooking show.
A timeline of Prince Harry's family feud
IN 2018, the Sun told how "simmering tension
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 2024, 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.
Mindy said: "People wouldn't believe that Meghan Markle ate at Jack in the Box."
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Meghan fired back with: "It's so funny, too, that you keep saying Meghan Markle. You know I'm Sussex now.'
The late Queen Elizabeth II honoured Harry and Meghan the titles of Duke and Duchess of Sussex for their 2018 wedding.
There have been calls for the couple to be stripped of the titles after blasting the royals on their Oprah Winfrey tell-all, six-part Netflix series Harry & Meghan and shock memoir Spare.
The California-based pair have also attracted criticism for only visiting Sussex once when they held several engagements seven years ago.
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This comes after the Sussexes were last night blasted for invading their own privacy after releasing a video of them twerking to induce labour.
The mum-of-two posted a cringey hospital dance clip yesterday to celebrate daughter Lilibet's fourth birthday.
It showed the former actress, heavily pregnant with their second child, making rowing movements and shimmying her shoulders beside a bed.
Prince Harry also shuffles across in a hoodie to the strains of then-viral pregnancy hit The Baby Momma Dance.
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Meghan shared the 80-second video with her three million followers on Instagram after earlier posting photos of her daughter.
But royal expert Ingrid Seward last night said Meghan was a hypocrite as the couple regularly whine about a lack of privacy.
She told The Sun: 'They can do what they like but why put it online?
"Does Meghan have no boundaries? I think it's vulgar, unnecessary, attention-seeking.
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'They make such a point about privacy and security and then they put stuff out there. Meghan can't resist putting it out there.
'I think it's completely hypocritical for everything she stands for. It's very embarrassing.'
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