Meghan Markle and Prince Harry delivered a cruel snub to Queen Elizabeth by denying her the chance to see her great-grandson Archie during their visit to the UK to finalise their royal duties.
Watch: Meghan Markle’s final snub to ‘disrespect’ Queen
Speaking to Sky News Australia’s Rita Panahi, The Daily Telegraph’s Jonathan Moran said that “nothing is left to chance” and that the Sussexes deliberately left baby Archie in Canada.
With their final engagements in the UK before stepping down as royals now over, the couple will soon return to their home in Canada.
Ms Panahi responded, saying it seemed a cruel snub to the Queen.
“Now on Harry and Meghan, it has been said that not bringing Archie was particularly cruel to the Queen, the Queen wanted to see her great-grandchild.
“Do you think it was a bit of a snub?”
Mr Moran replied: “Nothing is left to chance here, it was a cruel and nasty move to stop the Queen from seeing her great-grandchild.
“They have got the money, support and the people around them to help them to manage a trip, first-class, private jets whatever they are doing with a young child.
“I think it is cruel, nasty and bitter.”
Ms Panahi said: “I think that is what has lost them favour with the public.
“The public has seen that they are being disrespectful to the Queen.”
The details come as royal commentator Angela Mollard has spoken out to say she doesn’t expect the couple will make Canada a permanent home.
“I don’t think where they are now is where they will always be,” she reveals on New Idea’s podcast, Royals.
“I don’t think the North American experiment will necessarily be what’s still happening in ten years’ time. In fact, all manner of things could happen to that family.”
Indeed, she admits that it will be very hard to tell what the couple might be doing in the future.
“I think we can predict where Kate and William will be in ten years,” she says.
“I have no idea about Meghan and Harry and about what their life might look like in all faculties. When it comes to work their relationship their child rearing no one can predict what will happen there.”
The couple are believed to have made the decision to step back from royal life to give their son Archie a more private upbringing, but Angela reveals that he may be missing out on important family experiences due to the decision.
“I think at every opportunity they should be taking him back to the UK to form those friendships and relationships with his cousins,” she says.
“You see how much fun someone like [Prince] George has with Isla and Savannah Philips or Zara Tindall’s children Mia and Lena…
“I would hope that he was a little bit more enmeshed, not just in family, but in some of the wonderful things the royal family stand for which is a sense of duty and stability.”
To hear more about Archie’s future and the lives of royal children, listen to this week’s podcast here…
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