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Prince Harry’s comments on Trump may be surprising to some as it has been well reported that he enjoys a friendship with Trump’s political foe Barack Obama. Last year, the Prince interviewed Obama for a BBC radio programme he was guest editing. Before her marriage into the royal family, Meghan Markle criticised Trump as a “misogynist”.
Thomas Markle said he apologised for setting up paparazzi pictures of him being fitted for a suit.
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On Brexit, Markle described Prince Harry’s views as being “open to the experiment”.
The royal family takes pride in being scrupulously neutral on political issues.
Buckingham Palace complained about a report in 2016 in The Sun, which quoted unnamed sources saying the Queen spoke with “venom and emotion” against the EU during a lunch with former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg.
Leading Brexit supporters say Britain wrongly turned its back on the Commonwealth in favour of the European project when it joined the common market in the 1970s.
Prince Harry has, in recent years, increased the number of trips he has made to Commonwealth countries. Prince Harry and Meghan, now known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are due to visit Australia this year for the Invictus games, one of the couple’s first overseas trips as newlyweds.
Markle said he did not stage the papparazzi pictures for money but to try and change his image and improve his look.
Thomas Markle said he had a heart attack days before the wedding and cried when he watched it on TV.
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He said he realised it was a serious mistakes and apologised to his daughter and son-in-law.
“They were very forgiving, both Harry and Meghan were very forgiving about it,” he said. “Meghan said ‘everything is ready for you’. Harry said ‘I’ve got one of my military friends to look after you’. Everything was booked.”
But the staged pictures caused a global scandal and put Markle at the centre of the world’s insatiable media coverage in the days leading up to the wedding.
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He said he pulled out of attending and walking his daughter down the aisle for her second marriage because he couldn’t get over what happened.
He said he began experiencing heart palipations and suffered a heart attack in the days before the wedding, forcing him to cancel his trip to London.
He said he was “jealous” but “honoured” Prince Charles ended up walking Meghan down the aisle in his place.
“I wish I was there, I wish it had been me,” he said.
He ended up watching his daughter’s second marriage along with nearly two billion other people on live television, hiding from the world’s press in a small bed and breakfast organised by a friend.
“I cried about it and I regretted it because I really wanted to walk my daughter down the aisle.”
Kensington Palace was contacted for comment.
Latika Bourke is a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age based in London. She has previously worked for Fairfax Media, the ABC and 2UE in Canberra. Latika won the Walkley Award for Young Australian Journalist of the Year in 2010.
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