Before Prince Harry met Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, he was often seen attending royal engagements alongside his brother and sister-in-law, Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge. Harry was essentially the third member of their group, and while fans loved seeing the close relationship between the three of them, the new biography of Harry and Meghan suggests that he constantly felt like an outcast.
Prince Harry may have been the real reason he and Meghan Markle left the family.
Despite spending more than three decades as an official member of the royal family, the prince never took on the role well. He and William, who grew closer due to their mother’s death, were actually quite different, and William had a better understanding of his real future. Harry revealed later in life that he never wanted to be part of such an intense institution; The prince said in 2017 that he always wanted to be “something more” than the son of a future king.
When Harry met Meghan, and the two decided that real life was not for them, the public immediately thought it was because the Duchess did not want to be real. However, information about Harry and Meghan’s life has begun to unfold, suggesting that Harry was behind the couple’s departure.
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Harry reportedly felt like a “spare wheel” in his life with William and Kate.
Harry is several years younger than William, and when William started dating Kate in 2002, Harry instantly started to like him. Over the years, all three grew close, and Harry once referred to Kate as the sister he had never had. Although Harry did date (he was in a relationship with Chelsy Davy for years), he never seriously brought another woman into the family and often attended royal engagements alongside Kate and William.
According to royal expert Katie Nicholl, Harry was not thrilled to spend his life in the shadow of his brother and sister-in-law. Nicholl told Entertainment Tonight that Harry and Meghan’s new book, “Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of A Modern Family,” seems to suggest that Harry always felt out of place.
“One of the themes that seems to be recurring in Finding Freedom is that Harry felt like a spare wheel,” said Nicholl. “While the media loved this idea of a real threesome, for Harry, it felt like a spare wheel … I even heard him complain that it felt like gooseberry, the third on the date.” Nicholl said Harry “never fit in”, although he loved William and Kate, he wanted his own life.
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William and Kate tried to make Harry feel welcome
Although the three got along well, there was no denying that William and Kate were the future of the monarchy, and Harry was not. “While Kate and William went out of their way to make sure Harry felt like part of this team, this trio, Harry always wanted to be his own person,” added Nicholl.
In 2016, when Harry met Meghan, he could have seen her not only as the love of his life, but also as someone with whom he could start a whole new kind of life. One that didn’t require living under an umbrella of royal rules.
