Royal couples ‘were barely speaking’

A NEW book on Prince Harry and Meghan claims the relations between the Sussexes and the Cambridges grew so bitter that by March the couples were barely speaking.

Finding Freedom, serialised by The Times and The Sunday Times, claims the couples hardly spoke at the Commonwealth service at Westminster Abbey despite not having seen each other since January.

The book’s authors, Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, said:

“Although Meghan tried to make eye contact with Kate, the duchess barely acknowledged her.”

Mr Scobie told the Times: “To purposefully snub your sister-inlaw... I don’t think it left a great taste in the couple’s mouths.”

And the book claims that it was Harry, and not Meghan, who set the wheels in motion for their move to their wife’s hometown of Los Angeles, as reported in the Mirror.

According to the Telegraph, the book says that the Queen was genuinely “blindsided” when Harry and Meghan announced their decision on Instagram on January 8.

One insider allegedly said: “Harry felt very constrained. He wanted to be able to speak to his grandmother and his father but found aides blocking his path. It was so frustrating for him.

“He would get so frustrated when he was told he couldn’t do something,” one insider reveals in the book.

“The palace approach would always be – how did we do it last time? He wanted to do things differently and I think Meghan was the catalyst for him but also gave him the confidence which he lacked to change things.”

The authors describe a culture of increasing tension between the Sussexes and other members of the royal family.

A spokesman for Harry and Meghan said the couple did not contribute to the book, but he did not deny the content of The Times’s extracts.