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Veteran royal author Tom Quinn interviewed hundreds of staffers for his latest book Yes Ma’am: The Secret Life of Royal Servants. What he uncovered paints a startling picture of how far Harry has fallen under Meghan’s influence.
“Meghan was blamed for . . . making Harry ‘too woke,’” Quinn revealed. “One of Harry’s best friends said, ‘I can’t understand what Harry sees in her. She’s a tree hugger. She’s so woke.’ For Harry’s traditional friends, being woke was not a good thing. But I think Harry was, in a way, entranced by the fact that Meghan was able to offer him an alternative world from the one he’d always known.”
Goodbye to the Old Harry
Before Meghan, Harry was known as a lighthearted royal who could charm just about anyone. But insiders say that version of him faded fast.
“He became more disgruntled,” one former palace staffer shared with Quinn. “We had meetings about events he was planning to attend, and I increasingly got the feeling his mind was elsewhere. After Meghan’s arrival, he was concerned about her welfare, but it was as if his job now was not to attend events, which is what the senior royals always do as their core activity. Instead, he saw his core activity as being with Meghan and increasingly adopting her views of the world.”
According to those who worked closely with Harry, Meghan didn’t just become his priority — she became his worldview. And that shift didn’t go unnoticed.
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Tensions between Meghan and Harry’s inner circle hit a boiling point during a royal pheasant shoot at Sandringham, a traditional British pastime that Meghan reportedly loathed.
“There’s a famous occasion where Meghan went with Harry and some of his friends from school and from the army — she went on a pheasant shoot at Sandringham, the royal family’s country home,” Quinn recalled.
What happened next only widened the divide between Harry and his longtime buddies.
“She hated it because all of Harry’s friends were making the sorts of jokes that suggested they disliked everything to do with ‘woke.’ They made rude comments about tree-huggers. They just don’t like that kind of thing because, to a large extent, it’s seen as left-wing. They just didn’t like it,” Quinn said.
Estranged and Alone
As Meghan’s influence grew, Harry’s ties to family and friends withered. The prince, once rooted in royal duty and tradition, found himself isolated in a California mansion, worlds away from his past.
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“The idea of Harry being worried about those things before Meghan — it would never have occurred to him. I think Meghan really took him away from that [old] world, and they didn’t like that,” Quinn added. “The royals certainly didn’t like that.”
The writing’s on the wall: Harry gave up his legacy, friendships, and royal roots for a woke rebrand. Now, even his own friends are calling it out.
One thing’s clear — the man who once stood as a symbol of British resilience has traded it all for Hollywood values. And the cost? His family, his friends, and maybe even himself.
