What triggered Megxit Behind the Scenes: Harry and Meg - avoiding Palace repercussions, and the monetized exit strategy. Timeline and facts - 1 year before.
With the Coronation swiftly approaching, here are some new details and old gems that regardless of how Haz and Meg spin why they left, it's just PR smoke and mirrors. Here's what really happened, allegedly of course:
Oct 2018 - Meg bulling staff formally brought up the leadership chain to HR
Keep in mind for context Oct 2018 was when Jason Knauf emailed the Palace about concerns over Meg’s bullying of staff and subsequent staff turnover. William is well aware of this, as there were the famous wedding incidences with Catherine/Charlotte where Catherine allegedly had to calmly tell Meghan to not speak to Catherine's employees in a certain way.
Jason Knauf Summary with the Sussexes
Eugenie's wedding happens. Meg announces she is pregnant there. Sussexes have their first major tour - Australia. This could explain why the Palace did not know quite how to proceed with the bullying allegations, when they had to promote them for PR at the same time.
Dec 2018 - Sandrigham Christmas not so jolly
For context, in 2017 both the Cambridges and Sussexes stayed at Anmer Hall. This year they arrived on different days, left on different days, the Cambridges still stayed at Anmer, the Sussexes at Sandrigham. Queen allegedly ordered the 'Fab Four' walk about to church for photos, but that's it for family Christmas. Harry pulls out of the traditional pheasant hunt due to Meg's objections. Camb's leave early to spend time with the Middletons.
Details:
https://archive.ph/RaTKB
Jan 2019 - Meg tells H she's suicidal. She and Haz tell no one.
According to the Oprah interview, it was Meg allegedly feeling suicidal. Never mind that she never sought help from her Ob Gyn (medical confidentiality, her social worker mother, or literally any other helpline). Or that as part of the one and only “Fab Four” public interview, both H and M the were part of the Heads Together mental health campaign - including access to professionals in the area. And in Spare H talked about seeing a therapist at this time. And H talks about how much Meg encouraged him to seek mental health support.
Meg’s Suicidal Thoughts - Oprah Interview
Here’s also a timeline of William and Harry’s involvement with mental health around that time:
A Timeline of the Fab Four’s Mental Health Push
Notice how
they have NEVER discussed how she overcame her suicidal ideation. This is dangerous in the public domain, as it implies one can simply just “get over it” on your own, without help, and ideally by moving.
Yet they DIDN’T LEAVE for almost a YEAR despite this allegedly being the reason.
Why is that?
Things were very tense within the family, allegedly.
February 2019: Cambridge and Sussex Households Formally Split
Cambridge’s and Sussex’s Separate Households
SussexRoyal Instagram is created at this point. Used to upstage other Royal undertakings.
Details in this post:
https://www.///12ene00/whats_a_time.../?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
March 2019/Early Spring: Meg and Harry start seriously negotiating big money contracts, i.e. Quibi
Estimate it was March. Reports various state "early 2019" and "early Spring". Discussions were "ongoing".
Harry and Meg, via Meg's LA advisors (she notably held on to ALL of her LA people - agent, PR person, etc even post marriage, despite the Royal machine having this all in-house for her) were in contract negotiations with Quibi.
Quibi was supposed to be a major streaming competitor launched to compete with Youtube. Lot's of BIG money was originally behind it.
Proof from a Telegraph article:
https://archive.ph/tnH9M
March/April 2019: False rumours spread about William having an affair with Rose Hanbury
Blind Gossip - Meg leaked the Rose rumours, skips Easter
(William’s affair rumours leaked in March.)
Our Sub Post on Meg Leaking Affair Rumours
Fun facts: Phipps named her daughter Rose. Rose’s son Oliver has also just been announced as one of KCIII’s Page Boys, just like Prince George. This is basically the Royals using a megaphone to call bullshit on this rumour on a global stage.
May 2019: Archie is born. Multiple errors in reporting details highlight the disconnect between the Palace and Haz and Meg behind the scenes. They don't trust them, as they are hiding details, even very straightforward ones, allegedly, under the guise of 'privacy'.
Archie’s Birth Announcement Errors
https://archive.is/2023.03.13-00091...ties-errors-meghan-markle-prince-harry-2019-5
Note this doesn’t include any of the shenanigans around Archie’s pregnancy and fumbled birth announcement. Those details can be debated in another post.
However, here’s the organizational fiasco of a Royal birth announcement. It’s relevant here as it shows how behind the scenes there was little communication and trust between the Sussex’s Comms Team and Buckingham Palace’s Comms Team.
June 2019: The dissolution of the Royal Foundation as a joint Cambridge and Sussex charity.
Guardian Article - Dissolution of Royal Foundation
Harry and Meg allegedly misappropriate their half of the funds, including funds from the Diana Foundation. Legally murky enough that they were investigated by the Charities Commission.
Details in this post:
https://www.///127uvug/sussexs_orig...urce=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
June 2019: Even the Royals, allegedly, have given Meg unflattering nicknames. She is not trusted.
Meg - The Degree Wife
June 2019: Harry and Meg also trademarked Sussex Royal for "a variety of goods and services."
Proof
https://archive.ph/PHMEK
2019 was when behind the scenes everything started to fall apart at an increasing pace for Meg. She was being held accountable, and monitored. Can’t have that - her worst nightmare.
June - Oct: Intentionally timing their own Sussex PR to clash with the Royal calendar. Our reddit link posted here under 'Feb 2019' has additional examples that stretch out.
Oct 2019: Meg's 'I'm not okay' interview in South Africa.
Palace did not know she had arranged the famous ITV interview, allegedly. Intentionally released to coincide with the Cambridge's major visit to Pakistan, allegedly.
Some speculate that after this, H and Meg were too much of a liability, and that the Palace was going to put them on a tight leash. Ie - still working Royals, but doing more 'small/intimate' events in Britain. Eg - the ribbon cuttings, tea in a senior's home, etc. In this sense, Megxit was Meg pulling out her parachute to turn it into Megxit. Her leaving was always the emergency backup plan, allegedly. Basically, try to be the new 'People's Princess', but entirely on her terms, or pivot to Diana 2.0 (with Diana 2.5 post-divorce as her new parachute strategy, allegedly).
RESULT:
December 2019: Christmas 'vacation' is a cover. Sussex's given Harry's half of the Diana Foundation money (donations).
Canadian “vacation” (or freedom flight, lol) that they never came back from, became January 2020’s Megxit. Initial reports also indicated they were "spending Christmas with Doria in Canada", allegedly for her to spend time with Archie. Allegedly, this helped avoid the PR explanations for why they weren't invited to Sandrigham for both the Sussexes and the Palace. Questions remain: Why not just fly Doria in to Frogmore? Why not meet her where she lives in LA? Why Vancouver Island where neither Doria nor the Sussexes had any other homes, family, friends, etc?
And for initial funds? The sign off was given mid December in Harry’s half of the Diana Foundation money (donations)…It makes you wonder if this was semantics then on the Oprah interview that they wouldn’t have been able to start over without money from his mother…
January 2020: Megxit statement released on Sussex Royal and via Omid Scobie
Their original statement proves:
- it was never about safety
- it was never about race
- it was never about mental health
- it was never about privacy
- it was never anti monarchy
It helps to have a record that no matter what the 'public PR' was, from both the Sussex's and other Royal Comm's Teams, there were far more tensions behind the scenes. Fundamentally, Meg knew the Royals are a hierarchical institution (like the army, or political structures), yet she refused to embrace her role within that hierarchy.
The timeline here shows she was responding to the increased Palace knowledge and restricting her wildly inappropriate and unethical behavior by escalating their exit strategy and getting all their money making ducks in a row.
It's always been - and continues to be - about fame and money, on her terms.