According to a new report from OK! Magazine, King Charles is likely “made aware of every keynote interview” that his daughter-in-law Meghan Markle takes part in. Despite Markle, 41, no longer being a working member of the royal family, the monarch, 73, is allegedly keeping a watchful eye on her and her latest career endeavors. It goes the same for Prince Harry, as a royal expert reportedly told the outlet that Charles “will be watching” his youngest son, 37, as well.
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“Charles’ modus operandi has been to pretty much try and ignore any stuff that’s written and said about him,” said Duncan Larcombe, British journalist, commentator and former royal editor for The Sun to OK! He added,”But, on Meghan, I would be very, very surprised if he weren’t being made aware of every kind of keynote interview and commercial stuff, because they have to.”
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Last week, Markle graced the cover of Variety for an in-depth interview, and it’s likely, Marie Claire writes, that the king’s staff briefed him about what the former Suits star said. “It’s the royal family brand,” Larcombe said. “It is a fact Meghan is trading on the brand that King Charles is now very much in charge of. So, yes, he will be watching. It will be far more in a business sense. He won’t want her to be saying things that could be damaging to the reputations of the royal family and, in particular, things that, in his opinion, are utterly untrue and unfair.”
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It's not really personal, the expert stressed, but rather, it’s business as usual. He went on, "It’s not because he wants to go and cry and feel sad, and he’ll go and dig in the garden to make himself feel better," Larcombe noted. "It’s a practical thing. The business of the family has to be protected, and there is only so much the new king will tolerate of Meghan cashing in. It’s good to see perhaps that she’s reining back on what was beginning to look like an attack again, another offensive, in the wake of the Queen’s death."
Marie Claire previously reported that Markle and Harry are allegedly softening their angles when speaking about Charles and aiming to speak less about him in general— whether that be in Harry’s forthcoming memoir and the couple’s long-awaited Netflix docuseries. A source that spoke to Radar, per OK!, said that if actions like this aren’t taken when it comes to speaking about the king, there could be notable consequences.
"The king has issued a firm warning to Harry that if he rats him out in any way in the book, Harry’s whole family will be stripped of their titles," the source said. "And he’ll be cut off from royal life for good. Charles has gone into severe crisis-management mode. He knows that Harry holds the key to a closet full of dark secrets. It goes way deeper than simply Harry calling Charles on TV a bad father."
