I'm in the camp that believes Harry wanted this all along and Meghan just nudged him along the route to quit faster than he would have done it alone.
The only time he was thriving in the BRF was with Will+Kate, and amongst the Invictus games and Sentebale. Prior to that he was all teenage angst and since the wedding he seems deeply troubled in his demeanour. He just looks so miserable.
I remember when I was younger, there was talk that he wanted a quiet life in Africa. He thought she wanted the same and theirs was to be a perfect path carved out together as a married couple.
The thing is, her mask has slipped and we can see that for her it was all about the fame/ clout/ money/ access to the 1%.
His dream of making a real difference in this world seems to have been lost. He's now about "financial independence" i.e. milking the cash cow off the back of his title. He's lost his way and isn't likely to come back. I definitely think she played a big role in that.
Do I blame her fully? Nope. He's an adult and he thinks he's being noble choosing his wife over his duty, and protecting his new family from the same fate of his mother. He is so wrong on all these fronts. He can't see how she's isolated him entirely. And his treatment of his grandparents (both when Phillip was in the hospital and now how they broke this news) is unconscionable!
But make no mistake- I strongly feel that she is in control, that she has manipulated him from the start, and that she is behind all this hurry to get out quickly now. It's just that he's a willing accomplice.
Let them go. Maybe they'll do some good or maybe they'll sell out to line their own pockets. Either way, the best thing is for everyone to
ignore them! She would die if the press just decided to literally ignore them entirely now that they've opted out of the rota!
I am hopeful that will still happen once all this has settled down. There are others who are just as click-baity as these two and would sell the magazines/papers, and those celebs won't throw temper tantrums!