Harry said he was ‘open to Brexit’

PRINCE Harry revealed he was ‘open’ to Brexit in a frank conversation with Meghan’s father, it was dramatically claimed yesterday.

Thomas Markle told ITV’s Good Morning Britain he had discussed Brexit as something ‘we have to try’ with the Duke of Sussex during a phone call.

However, he added that Harry had not expressed any ‘real commitment’ on the issue. Talking to GMB’s co-host Piers Morgan, Mr Markle said: ‘[Harry] said he was open to it. He didn’t know one way or the other, he was just saying he had to be open to it and see how it went. That pretty much was his attitude. Like I said, this was just conversations between two guys about politics, nothing cast in stone, just the way you talk.’ He added: ‘It was just a loose conversation about something that we have to try, there was no real commitment to it.’

Members of the Royal Family are bound by convention not to discuss issues that could be considered political.

In 2016, the press watchdog upheld Buckingham Palace’s complaint about the headline ‘ Queen backs Brexit’ in The Sun. A source said they had witnessed a ‘bust-up’ between the Queen and pro-eU former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg in 2011, which left ‘ no room for doubt about her passionate feelings over europe’.

However, royal officials insisted the Queen was ‘politically neutral’.

Kensington Palace refused to comment on the latest claims last night.

Mr Markle, 73, said he and Prince Harry had shared a handful of phone calls when the royal started dating his daughter. Giving details of their first conversation, he told the show: ‘He said “hello Thomas” and I said “hello Harry”. It became a conversation back and forth mostly about politics. He was asking me how I was feeling that day, and I was telling him how unhappy I was with the President, or with the idea of Trump, and that’s how it began.

‘Then we talked a little bit about how they met and how happy they were with each other, and that was pretty much it for the first conversation.’

He added: ‘He’s quite easy to talk to. He’s a very comfortable person to talk to. I wasn’t nervous, 5,000, 10,000 miles apart it’s hard to be nervous with someone you’re talking to on the phone.’