As Prince Harry and Meghan Markle decided to step down from royal duties, they had an alternate practice in mind. A royal expert has claimed that the couple planned a half-in-half-out arrangement, which drew an immediate reaction from the late monarch, Queen Elizabeth II who expressed fear about the repeat of a “disaster.”
“The key thing is the Queen, supported by the then-Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and then Duke of Cambridge, and other members of the family, took the view that you can’t be half-in half-out,” a royal correspondent Richard Palmer said.
“Edward and Sophie tried it years ago and it ended in disaster for them really, well, embarrassment, anyway,” Palmer added.
The rationale behind the decision of not allowing a half-in-half-out approach to Prince Harry and Meghan Markel was “you are always to be accused of cashing in on your royal connections.” The royal correspondent added that their “choice to…
