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“They didn’t even warn the Queen!” The United Kingdom is in shock after the announcement of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, to withdraw from the royal family. The shock is such that it relegated to the background the Brexit crisis, and the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union after three and a half years of heartbreak. Rather than Brexit, it is now the “Megxit” – contraction of Meghan and Exit – which now dominates in the media – even the austere Financial Times -, after the announcement that took everyone by surprise, until to Queen Elizabeth II, 93, grandmother of Harry, and Crown Prince Charles.
“We intend to relinquish (the role of) senior members of the royal family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to support the queen,” the grandson of Elizabeth II said in a statement. his wife on January 8 in the evening.
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This decision took the royal family by surprise, who hoped to be able to start 2020 under better auspices after, by the queen’s own admission, a year “full of pitfalls”: it was faced with the emergence of the name of Prince Andrew in the case of the American pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and a road accident caused by Prince Philip, the sovereign’s husband, of fragile health.
Even at the very famous Madame Tussaud museum, the statues of Meghan and Harry are now separated from the rest of the royal family!
Follow the latest information on the reactions to this decision that shakes British royalty in the live above.
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