‘Too Woke’: Prince Harry’s pals claim Harry was ‘easygoing’ before Meghan Markle made him ‘disgruntled’
Prince Harry was ‘easygoing’ and carefree before his romance with Meghan Markle made him ‘disgruntled’, claims pals.
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Prince Harry’s pals claimed that Meghan Markle was making him “too woke”, it has been reported.
The claim has been made by royal author Tom Quinn in his new book Yes Ma’am: The Secret Life of Royal Servants.
For the book, Quinn chatted closely with former and current members of palace staff to get the inside scoop on what royal life was like.
“Meghan was blamed for … making Harry ‘too woke,’” Quinn claimed to Fox News Digital. “One of Harry’s best friends said, ‘I can’t understand what Harry sees in her. She’s a tree hugger. She’s so woke.’ For Harry’s traditional friends, being woke was not a good thing. But I think Harry was, in a way, entranced by the fact that Meghan was able to offer him an alternative world from the one he’d always known.”
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According to Quinn, while initial thoughts on Meghan were positive among the monarchy and royalists, things quickly turned after the former actress met some of the Duke’s pals.
“There’s a famous occasion where Meghan went with Harry and some of his friends from school and from the army — she went on a pheasant shoot at Sandringham, the royal family’s country home,” Quinn explained.
“She hated it because all of Harry’s friends were making the sorts of jokes that suggested they disliked everything to do with ‘woke.’ They made rude comments about tree-huggers. They just don’t like that kind of thing because, to a large extent, it’s seen as left-wing. They just didn’t like it.”
“With Meghan, [Harry] shifted across,” Quinn continued. “He became much more sympathetic as she is about wanting to do good in the world. The idea of Harry being worried about those things before Meghan — it would never have occurred to him. I think Meghan really took him away from that [old] world, and they didn’t like that.”
As Harry’s relationship with Meghan grew more intense, one of his former aides has suggested that the Duke’s temperament began to make a shift away from his formerly positive, up-beat self.
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“That terrible modern word ‘woke’ has often been used, and although I don’t like it, I can see why it is applied to Harry — he did become far more concerned about social issues and the rights of minorities than he’d ever been before Meghan’s arrival,” the former palace aide told Quinn.
One of Harry’s former senior aides went on to claim that they felt Harry went from “being pretty easygoing” to being “more disgruntled” – and they laid the blame on his relationship with Meghan.
Harry’s life took a completely different turn to his brother, Prince William, in the four years after he met Meghan.
The relationship between the couple and Harry’s family slowly soured over the course of four years, before the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced in January 2020 that they were giving up on their royal duties and moving to the US.
Since then, the couple has signed lucrative deals with the likes of Spotify and Netflix to varying amounts of success, with their latest venture being an attempt to make Meghan into a lifestyle guru in the vein of Gwyneth Paltrow.
Originally published as ‘Too Woke’: Prince Harry’s pals claim Harry was ‘easygoing’ before Meghan Markle made him ‘disgruntled’
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