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Prince Harry’s claims rubbished: 'What rug was pulled? They use one like a flying carpet'

Prince Harry, Meghan Markle’s decision to jet back to the UK for family moments and Invictus has not landed well: Here’s why

By H. Anjum
Published July 01, 2026
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Prince Harry’s claims rubbished: ‘What rug was pulled? They use one like a flying carpet’
Prince Harry’s claims rubbished: ‘What rug was pulled? They use one like a flying carpet’ 

A few days ago, news dropped that Prince Harry is feeling like the rug was “pulled from under their feet at the 11th hour” by his father and the Firm because his hope for Ravec authorized security ended up going bust.

However royal expert Tina Brown has a few choice words for these revelations made earlier by a source.

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She shared them all on her Substack called Fresh Hell and started by saying, “What rug? The only rug under the Sussexes is a flying carpet on which the two of them circle the globe in a cloud of persistent delusion.”

And she didn’t end there either, instead she pointed out how “Harry is apparently ‘distraught’ at the development,” but in her eyes, this “isn’t a development at all” but “the same stance Ravec has taken for the last six years,” and “was under review again,” so, as it stands, “until Ravec gives another verdict, the status quo is unchanged,” she said too.

But that’s not all, in the eyes of the expert, “if Harry thought that bringing his children would force Ravec’s hand he was, as he is so often, hopelessly misguided.” Because “right now, the palace is in a crouch position about increased scrutiny of royal finances, thanks to the Andrew Windsor-Mountbatten scandals.”

Another aspect of her call-out also focused on another debacle that the Firm’s dealing with, which is Andrew Windsor-Mountbatten scandals.

Hence, she said, “the baffling thing about both Harry and Meghan is their repeated tendency to make premature announcements before the underlying facts have been nailed down.”

It was only near the end that she shifted focus and started pointed out a number of things, starting from the origin point of their troubles in the last six years. Regarding this she wrote, “indeed all their troubles of the last six years have stemmed from their magical thinking that something they want will become instant reality, starting with Megxit itself.”

“It was their reckless decision in January 2020 to publish on the Sussex Royal website their bombshell announcement that they were exiting the royal family on the dubious proposition of becoming adjunct royals with lucrative side-hustles, listing terms which had never been presented or agreed to by the palace - rather like demands for a job they hadn’t been offered - which created all the bitter mayhem that followed.”

Next, “even their chosen brand title, Sussex Royal, was a rude assumption of a prerogative that required royal approval, something they had failed to seek, then suffered the embarrassment of having permission denied and set off scrambling for the Archewell rebrand.”

But the worst one was Lili’s naming because even though claims were made that Queen Elizabeth had signed off on it, the truth is, “they did not ask her, they told her,” as the expert put it near the end.

H. Anjum
H. Anjum is a News Editor at The News International (Digital) with over five years of newsroom experience. She is a media graduate specialising in British royal coverage, reporting on monarchies, traditions, and modern royal life. She also writes on fashion, movies and TV shows with contemporary relevance for a global audience.
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