Let's settle this once and for all: Prince Harry wanted to leave the royal family long before he met Meghan Markle.

[Meggitt is a term that puts all the blame on Meghan for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's decision to leave the royal family in January 2020. Meggitt is a term that puts all the blame on Meghan Markle for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's decision to leave the royal family in January 2020: Harry has been frustrated within the confines of the royal family long before he met Meghan in 2016, let alone married her. Harry was dissatisfied within the confines of the royal family long before he met Meghan in 2016, let alone married her. Meggitt is still, to the author, a condensed version of what society tends to do: blame women for problems.

The Mirror reported that Harry was always destined to walk away and always intended to "do his own thing," no matter who he married; reports from 2019 indicate that Harry and his brother Prince William, to make things more seamless for their respective growing families, were planning to split the household and their staff, the Mirror reported. Ahead of Prince Archie's birth in May of that year, royal correspondent Omid Scobie said that a Kensington Palace aide confirmed that plans to split the household were in place "long before Meghan came on the scene." (Before anyone knew what would happen in January 2020, especially that Harry would be separated from William and Kate as the same working royalty, which was seen as a rather seismic change since the three had worked together as a trio for so long.)

"Long before Meghan came on the scene, the Kensington Palace entourage had been aware that once Meghan was married and no longer a spare wheel, she and her partner would be doing their own work and living with their own staff under their own household. We expected that she would," Scobie said at the time of Archie's imminent birth. "But Sussex's birth is just around the corner, and there's a lot of work to be done before then. It would be very easy, or perhaps I should say lazy, to put this on the narrative of 'Oh, they're at each other's throats. [The division of households] sounds dramatic, but it's still the same staff.'

Scobie said this before Archie was born on May 6, 2019, but much has changed in less than a year. Not only did Harry and Meghan and William and Kate split households (again, this was always the plan), but Harry and Meghan decided to leave the active members of the royal family altogether in January 2020, moving from Harry's home country of England to Meghan's home country of the United States in the process Harry and Meghan are now living in the United States, Meghan's home country. Not only was the royal split always going to happen (whether Harry married Meghan, Chelsea Davy, Cressida Bonas, or whoever's name you want to put here), but more than a decade before Harry met Meghan in the summer of 2016 when he was 31 years old, the active royal family It has since become clear that he despised life as a member of the royal family and had been contemplating leaving the royal family, even going back to Harry's childhood.

In 2022, journalist Bryony Gordon told The Telegraph that Harry had wanted to "escape the crazy royal cult" since childhood, but only found the courage to leave after meeting Princess Meghan. (It seems very likely that Meghan did not light the flame or set it on fire, but only served as a spark that confirmed for Harry that it was the right decision, making the flame burn brighter and impossible to ignore or keep hidden.) Harry himself will appear in May 2021 on the "Armchair Expert" podcast, telling host Dax Shepard, "I don't want to be here. I don't want to be here and I don't want to do this. How am I supposed to settle down and have a wife and family when I know it will happen again? Because I have seen behind the curtain, I have seen the business model, I know how this business is run and how it works.

Could it be any clearer?

Editor's Note: Whether you agree or disagree with the decision to leave and everything that has happened in the three-plus years since, frankly, it is none of our business. At least in this case, the ship had sailed long before Meghan arrived at her port of call. The term "Meggitt" is more than offensive, it is simply incorrect. Sure, it may sound cute to journalists to rhyme the word with Brexit (we've done it 700 times since January 2020, let's move on), but if you know the facts (let's hear Harry say it himself), and you know that every woman has a particular If you continue to perpetuate the long-standing canard that all women are being passed off as attacks on women, you are wrong. As a society, and especially as journalists, we can and should do better. And in this case, burying the word "meggit" is a good place to start.

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