Prince Harry cuts ties with old friends and family as sacrifice for Meghan Markle affects him

Since stepping back from their senior Royal duties, it’s been widely reported that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have severed ties with many friends and family members.

Claims have emerged suggesting that the Duke of Sussex has lost contact with a large number of his UK-based friends since moving to the US, leading a top Royal expert to comment on how this “sacrifice” might affect him.

Former BBC Royal correspondent Jennie Bond exclusively told OK! Magazine: “I think we can say that it must be tough for Harry to have lost touch with virtually all his old circle of friends as well as his family. But we must assume that he feels that sacrifice is worth it for the life he now has with the woman he loves and the children he adores.”

It comes after Royal author and expert, Tom Quinn told The Mirror: “Harry on the other hand is increasingly bored and looking back across the Atlantic where most of his army and school friends still live and whom he never sees because they won’t visit him in the States because they find Meghan difficult.”

This isn’t the first time reports have surfaced about strained relationships between Harry and his close friends. Investigative journalist Tom Bower previously wrote about the couple in his 2022 book Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors.

The author spoke to 80 sources close to the couple and revealed everything from how Prince William reportedly asked his uncle Earl Spencer to speak to Harry to the changes the palace forced the writers of Suits to make after the couple’s relationship became public knowledge.

According to Bower, Harry invited 16 of his old friends from Eton to join him at Sandringham for dinner on Friday, shooting on Saturday and then lunch on Sunday. The author writes that Harry was “looking forward” to “endless banter” with his best friends but everyone left exhausted after meeting Meghan for the first time as she “challenged every guest who contravened her woke values”. He goes on to claim that Meghan “lacked any sense of humour” and was a “dampener on the party”.

Tom Bower writes: “He had not anticipated Meghan’s reaction. Their jokes, involving sexism, feminism and transgender people, ricocheted around the living-rooms and dining-rooms. Without hesitation, Meghan challenged every guest whose conversation contravened her values. She lacked any sense of humour. Driving home after Sunday lunch, the texts pinged between the cars: ‘OMG, what about HER? ‘ said one. ‘Harry must be f***ing nuts’.”