Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s post-royal lives are examined in a brand new documentary – and one expert calls out the moment that damaged their brand the most
14:00, 11 Oct 2025Updated 14:52, 11 Oct 2025
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s most “damaging moment” since quitting the Royal Family has been pinpointed by an expert.
It has been almost six years since the Sussexes sent shockwaves around the world when they revealed they were sensationally stepping down from their royal roles and quitting the UK. Since then, the couple, particularly Harry, has given several tell-all interviews, railing at their time in the Firm together, criticising the likes of King Charles and Prince William. In his controversial memoir Spare, Harry even claimed he and William got involved in a physical altercation after a heated argument at Kensington Palace.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (Image: Getty Images)
It’s led to some to argue that the couple often contradict themselves over their pleas to be allowed their privacy, while at the same time as giving bombshell interviews.
But one expert believes it’s not been this that has caused Harry and Meghan’s popularity to slide – but something completely different. In the new Channel 5 documentary, Harry and Meghan: Royal Hypocrites, royal commentator Daisy McAndrew pinpoints the South Park episode that poked fun at them at doing the most damage.
The episode of the satirical cartoon made fun of two characters who looked like the pair as they demanded privacy while on a publicity tour for the prince’s memoir Waaaagh – a dig at Harry’s memoir Spare.
And speaking on the Channel 5 show, Daisy explained: “The thing I think damaged Harry and Meghan almost more than anything else was having the mickey taken with the Privacy Tour [South Park] episode.
“When they were the butt of jokes with the cartoon, showing them as completely hypocritical going on a tour to ask for privacy, but meanwhile baring all on all sorts of late-night TV shows.”
The South Park episode that poked fun at Harry and Meghan (Image: Comedy Central)
The Sussexes’ revelations have caused them to become estranged from their royal relatives, but, in a move being viewed as a significant but tentative step towards repairing their troubled relationship, Harry joined King Charles for a private tea last month, spending 54 minutes with his father at Clarence House after not seeing him face to face for 19 months.
The duke has previously expressed his hopes of reconciliation with his family amid his belief that they may never forgive him after his public accusations.
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But his spokesman later hit back at claims the Duke of Sussex was surprised his recent meeting with the King was “distinctly formal” and may be the result of people “intent on sabotaging” a reconciliation, his spokesman has suggested.
A report in The Sun on Saturday suggested their private tea at Clarence House had been “distinctly formal” and left the duke, who stepped down as a senior working royal in 2020, joking he felt more like an “official visitor” than a family member.
He handed his father a framed picture of his children, Archie, six, and Lilibet, four, it was reported. A spokesman for the Duke of Sussex said: “Recent reporting of the duke’s view of the tone of the meeting is categorically false.
“The quotes attributed to him are pure invention fed, one can only assume, by sources intent on sabotaging any reconciliation between father and son. Presumably, those same sources have also chosen to disclose that gifts were exchanged.
“While we would have preferred such details to remain private, for the sake of clarity we can confirm that a framed photograph was handed over, however, the image did not contain the duke and duchess.”
Harry and Meghan: Royal Hypocrites is on Channel 5 on Saturday at 8.55pm
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