Harry and Meghan “Wildly Unhappy” in America? Kate’s $15 Million Helicopter Sparks Backlash

0:03 Caloroga Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue. I am your host, Mark Francis. Harry and Meghan were wildly unhappy with their lives in America, according to former People editor Dan Wakeford. Speaking on the Daily Beast's Royalist podcast, Wakeford clarified an earlier report. It was their life in America that they were wildly unhappy about. They were wildly unhappy with how things had gone and they hadn't gone how they expected. Wakeford believes returning to Britain has made Harry happier, although he questioned whether the move would have the same effect on Meghan. In his assessment, the couple's difficulty is reconciling different ambitions while choosing where to raise their family. The problem with this couple is you have two people with completely different goals in life and geographical, like, homes.

0:54 He said sources describe Harry and Meghan as very much in love, but suggested that affection does not necessarily resolve disagreements over their future. they're not on the same page with where they're going in life, whether that's living in England or living in America, whether that is philanthropy or a glamorous Hollywood lifestyle brand. Host Tom Sykes responded, I think we've all seen plenty of people who are madly in love and carried away with the whole thing who can't make it work as a relationship because the relationship is a very different kind of thing. Wakeford added, Obviously, it's easier for her now that she's not in the royal family. Despite all that doom and gloom, a friend of the Sussexes told the Daily Mail, Harry and Meghan are all really happy with how things are going, with the children at school, with where they are living and with being in Britain. The place where they are staying is perfectly private and they couldn't be happier with that.

1:44 Things are going well with Harry's family as well, but nothing more to be said there. The pal added that the couple are optimistic that their security will be revised soon and that it's all good. Both Harry and Meghan are really delighted with the return. The relocation to the UK is being served with a dose of humble pie, though. Meghan reportedly believes she can give Kate a run for her money as she rebuilds her public profile in Britain. An unnamed source quoted by Heatwell claims Meghan recognises that the Princess of Wales currently has the advantage, but hopes to make just as much of an impact, if not more. The insider alleges that Harry has encouraged her to become more visible, believing she could receive a fantastic reception. According to the account, Megan sees her position outside the working royal family as an opportunity to choose her own engagements, partnerships and causes. She can operate entirely on her own terms, the source said, potentially allowing people to see a very different side of her. The reported approach would begin cautiously.

2:40 She plans to start small, the insider claimed, choosing settings where she feels comfortable and welcomed before assessing the response. Successful appearances would lead to more while others could prompt her to pull back and recalibrate. The source described Meghan as playing the long game, with Harry cheering her on every step of the way. In the Express, Chris Richards writes, Many everyday things prompt us to ask, how are they useful, like that tiny front pocket on your pair of jeans? Now Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are in danger of slipping into that pointless category too. But just like that mini pocket in your jeans, which I believe was originally designed for cowboys or gold miners' watches, the Sussexes are in danger of us asking, what's the point of them coming back? Megxit was an attempt to seek financial freedom and earn more than taxpayers would pay them as working royals.

3:27 Their return is simply the same thing, a way to exploit UK business opportunities after the US ones all dried up. The Sussexes are in danger of spending their lives as insignificant minor celebrities who the royal family do not trust, who turn up to the occasional red carpet event, but whose sole focus is on the endless acquisition of wealth. Meghan's holiday hampers are a way to offload the jam, according to journalist Alison Boshoff, who claims as ever has substantial unsold stock. Speaking to News Nation, Boshoff said, She's got a lot of jam, or fruit spread as she calls it. She's got to ship the stuff, so basically what she's going to have in the hamper is just a way of offloading the jam. She's got absolutely tons of this stuff unsold. Boshoff also claims much of the stock expires next summer, with some products reaching their dates sooner.

4:16 The report provides no inventory figures or a response from as ever confirming that account. She questioned the brand's description of its products as everyday essentials. She keeps on referring to these things as pantry staples. You're not buying it as a pantry staple. Her criticism extended to Harry's proposed Diana documentary, which has not been formally confirmed. Boshoff argued that the project would depend on contributions from Diana's friends and relatives. She said Earl Spencer had declined to participate and doubted that other close confidants would agree. You've got ten months to pull this off. I don't think that's actually long enough, she said. I honestly think it's mission impossible. She also suggested that a film revisiting Charles' marriage to Diana could complicate any hope of the King joining Harry at the Birmingham Invictus Games. You're not going to stand with someone and lend them your royal luster, she said, when you know they're going to be literally painting you as the villain of the world a couple of weeks later.

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5:52 Columnist Daniela also took quite a shot at the Prince and Princess of Wales in an article titled, Just Like Us, The Other Half of Kate's Life No One Sees. Elsa writes, Just imagine Kate, the Princess of Wales, in a nice pink pair of washing-up gloves standing over a sudsy sink. This week, the royal admitted to a secret love, telling a group of seniors, I love washing up, I really do. Meanwhile, she said, over on towel duty, we have future King William who does the drying. We are a good double act, and we get the children involved. It's perfect, relatable stuff, just like the 899th instance of Kate and William busily telling us they are JLU, just like us. The school runs, the sport days, the finding forgotten sandwiches in school bags after the holidays, the having to clean out the guinea pig's cage, the photos of them going through the supermarket, self-checkout.

6:40 But then something awkward pops up that really busts the JLU bubble, like when passengers at Southend Airport last week filmed Kate heading home from an engagement in the family's runabout, a $ 15 million helicopter. The truth is, for all that the Walesers are happy to scrub the occasional pasta pop and tell us about it, they are also immensely wealthy and very quietly live a 0.1% life, a life they do not seem to particularly want to let anyone know about it. Take that chopper, one of the two Leonardo AW139 helicopters owned by the royal family to ferry them around the country. In 2025, William was picked up from home and flown to official engagements 52 times, including one to an Earthshot prize event. Let us not forget the pasting that Prince Harry got in 2019 after taking four private jet flights in 11 days while banging on about the climate crisis. Take their holidays in 2025. In January, they hit the slopes of Courchevel, where previously they have shared snaps taken in front of a $ 133 million chalet where they may have been staying. Come summer, they flew a private jet to Greece where they bobbed around Kefalonia in a $ 38 million superyacht replete with its own poor faux-Greek columns and a Renaissance-style frescoed ceiling in the dining room.

7:53 Funnily enough, William and Kate didn't post a single image or video of any of these high-end holidays to social media, instead getting their professional social media team to put out videos of them J.L. Ewing on a bland bit of Norfolk Beach or enjoying a windswept bit of Cornish coastline. For William and Kate, all of this is very inconvenient stuff and runs painfully counter to the narrative they are busily trying to sell of being dead relatable and a normie mum and dad. And there you have it. If you'd like to email us, our address is thepalacentric at gmail.com. If you're on Spotify, leave us a comment. If you're on Apple, hit that button up there that says listen uninterrupted and get the show commercial free for five bucks a month. And if there's a creator or a podcaster in your family that needs an application to help them be a better creator, check out Linnet at linnetmedia.com. L-I-N-N-E-T media.com.

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