Meghan and Harry risk ‘resentment’ from children for ‘not growing up in Firm’, expert

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped down from their royal life all the way back in 2020, choosing to raise their children away from the Royal Family

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are at risk of being ‘resented’ by their children for removing them from royal life and taking them away from the royal family.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who stepped back from the Royal Family in 2020, now reside in the US – meaning their children have little contact with their UK relatives. Whilst Archie was just one when the royal couple decided to bow out of and move to the US, their youngest child Lilibet has only ever known life in California.

A royal commentator has called the distance between the Sussexes and the Royal Family “sad in a way” as she highlights how they’re regularly missing from events and gatherings.

Socialite Lady Victoria Hervey told GBN America’s Nana Akua that the children, who live in California, “aren’t getting to meet their cousins regularly”. She told the channel: “It is sad in a way that his children aren’t getting to meet their cousins regularly as they grow up together and the rest of the Family members.

“I’m sure that as they get older they’ll probably resent the fact that they didn’t have that. Because there’ll be those family photos, right at the family gatherings, and where’s Lilibet and Archie? They’re not in the pictures.”

This isn’t the first time Lilibet and Archie’s relationship with the wider royal family has been highlighted, as royal expert Tom Quinn exclusively told the Mirror that Meghan worries about the royal rift. He explained: “She is also really worried that her children will have no real relationship of any kind with their cousins George, Charlotte and Louis – Meghan loves the idea of having a big happy family and hates it when people describe her childhood and her family as dysfunctional. She’s terrified history is going to repeat itself.”

He added: “A friend of the couple – one of Meghan’s few aristocratic friends from her time in the UK – told me Meghan does miss some aspects of life in the UK and worries that her children will blame her if they never get to see their cousins and feel as adults that they have been deprived of what might have been a fun and meaningful existence in the UK as working royals.”

Meghan and Harry’s relationship with the royal family has been strained in recent years, especially following controversial comments made in interviews, their Netflix series and in Harry’s autobiography ‘Spare’ which he released last year. In the wake of some of the couple’s revelations, it’s seen the relationship between Harry and his older brother William even more strained, having a knock on effect for both of their groups of children.