Prince Charles and Prince William wanted to find a way to help Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, according to a royal author.
Nigel Cawthorne is the author of Prince Andrew, Epstein and the Palace, which explores the Duke of York’s friendship with the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and the subsequent fallout.
The book claims that those inside the palace used the disastrous interview which Andrew, 60, gave to BBC Newsnight about his friendship, as a chance to also move Prince Harry and Meghan out of the royal picture.
MailOnline, the book claims the interview, in November 2019, was seen as a good time for a leak about the Duke and Duchess’s hopes of stepping back from their senior royal roles.” data-reactid=”35″>According to the MailOnline, the book claims the interview, in November 2019, was seen as a good time for a leak about the Duke and Duchess’s hopes of stepping back from their senior royal roles.
Cawthorne told Yahoo UK: “Charles and William genuinely wanted to find a way forward for what the Sussexes were looking for and to support them in their discussions with the palace.”
He previously told the MailOnline that the Charles and William factions saw the interview as the “starting shot” to pruning the “unwieldy monarchy”.