When it comes to the Royal Family's reaction to the Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan, the silence has been deafening. The King has not refuted any of the claims made by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in the program. This includes Harry's claim that his father said something "simply not true" during a family meeting at Sandringham in early 2020 while his grandmother, the Queen, looked on.

According to historian David Starkey, according to the Mirror, the monarch is playing a "clever long game" against Harry and Meghan, and in his first Christmas Day speech this week, he made no mention of his younger son and his wife, "letting it happen." Starkey says.

"If you look at the polls today, I don't think they matter much," he says of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. 'I mean, almost the majority of people not only say they don't like them very much, they actually want them stripped of their titles. I think their significance diminishes with each passing day, with each desperate attempt to turn a small molehill of discontent into a vast Himalayan mountain range of resentment. What I think Charles is doing is actually a pretty clever long game. He is just letting it happen.

As we enter 2023 tomorrow, Charles' coronation on May 6 is imminent, but in the more immediate future, Harry's memoir, Spare, will be released on January 10.

Prince Charles' tactic in response to Harry and Meghan's candid remarks seems to be complete silence on the issue, including his Christmas Day speech. Prince Charles spoke about his parents, the late His Majesty and His Royal Highness Prince Philip, and mentioned the Prince and Princess of Wales (his eldest son, Prince William, and his wife, Princess Catherine), but did not mention Harry and Meghan at all. According to the [Mirror], the decision "made sense" to Grant Harold, a former royal butler who worked at Prince Charles' Highgrove residence for seven years, and was a "sensible move. Whether Prince Charles will remain silent after the release of Spare will probably depend on the contents of his memoir."