An Explosive Report Claims King Charles III Intentionally Yanked Prince Harry & Meghan Markle's Security for This Shocking Reason

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Just when you think the royal family feud has been put on the back burner to simmer for a while, an explosive report shakes things up again. The insight from Byline Times‘ deep dive into Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s exit from the palace supports the story they told in Netflix’s Harry & Meghan docuseries about the security issues after King Charles III yanked their protection.

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It seems that Charles wasn’t thrilled that his youngest son left the royal fold to strike out on his own and he was faced with two choices at the time: “The Sussexes had either to be safely in the tent in Britain or cast away and castigated as comprehensively as possible in order to reduce the threat of them eclipsing the rest of the family.” Yes, you read that correctly, the source indicated that Charles was again threatened by someone else eclipsing him in the headlines. “The greater truth is that Harry and Meghan make better headlines than the King and Camilla or William and Kate. The idea of them still being in public service but abroad and out of the control of the institution and dominating the media narrative just couldn’t happen,” the article reads.

Even though the dynamic duo was given a “transition period” to explore a life overseas, “senior members of the family wanted them back” after that time and they “were ready to continue playing dirty to make this happen.” That when the Byline Times alleges that the palace “tried everything to make it fail, starting with the removal of security and then signing off on a 12-month assault by the UK press on Harry and Meghan and everyone in their orbit.” Record scratch! These allegations by the media outlet are almost a line-by-line confirmation of the couple’s docuseries: the royal family was behind the derogatory headlines.

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What also didn’t help the situation was that Prince Harry was hellbent on suing the tabloids for their coverage. That was “deemed highly undesirable by the offices of Prince Charles and Prince William because there was always lots of horse-trading going on with the editors and their correspondents to ensure favourable coverage and protection when scandals broke.” And since “no one wanted that stuff to end up in a courtroom, Harry and Meghan were expendable, but the heirs and their wives were not.”

It became easy for King Charles to remove the Sussexes’ “transition funding, which Prince Charles knew was his son’s only lifeline to keeping safe, [and] was considered a very effective way of trying to bring Harry and Meghan to heel in the UK.” As we all know, Harry had a lifeline in the form of his inheritance from the late Princess Diana. That tidy sum saved Harry and Meghan (and baby Archie) from having to crawl back to the U.K. to a life they didn’t want to endure.

Click here to see a complete timeline of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s feud with the royal family.

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