{"id":749625,"date":"2026-06-20T22:26:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/749625\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T22:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:26:25","slug":"act-of-war-prince-harry-and-meghan-markles-plot-to-humiliate-prince-william-during-uk-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/749625\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Act of war&#8217;: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle&#8217;s plot to humiliate Prince William during UK visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to JJ Anisiobi, who hosts The Daily Expresso podcast, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will make an important announcement regarding the 2027 Invictus Games at Villa Park, the home of Aston Villa Football Club.<\/p>\n<p>Prince William just so happens to be a lifelong fan of the team and is<a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/opinion\/royal-fans-see-authentic-prince-william-after-emotional-aston-villa-win\/video\/c255a0e4c84d660a28dd40e08e882aea\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"c255a0e4c84d660a28dd40e08e882aea\" data-tgev-label=\"opinion\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> often seen passionately supporting them from the stands<\/a> and singing their praises.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been told, and I feel this is a dig at William, Harry\u2019s going to make his announcements in Birmingham at Villa Park,\u201d Anisiobi told TallTV presenter Mark Dolan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dolan, who was shocked by the revelation, dubbed Harry&#8217;s decision to host at Villa Park &#8220;significant&#8221; considering his brother&#8217;s longtime connection to the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWilliam\u2019s great loves are the United Kingdom, his family, particularly his wife and children, and Aston Villa Football Club. He lives and breathes it, he\u2019s so passionate. I think there\u2019s a sense of his second family about that club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he goes to Villa Park, that\u2019s an act of war. Because Villa belongs to William, it\u2019s his property, it\u2019s his emotions, it\u2019s his backstory, it\u2019s his narrative, in many ways, it\u2019s one of the few human things that we know about William.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"poster-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9806728c1ed82da4487dba3d3b155954.jpeg\" data-sctrack=\"op-poster-img\" alt=\"Prince Harry feeling \u2018completely isolated\u2019 after missing out on Royal wedding invitation\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, it was confirmed that Harry and Meghan would be visiting the UK with their children Archie, seven, and Lilibet, five, in July after living in the United States for four years.<\/p>\n<p>The family will be embarking on the transatlantic trip to attend the One Year To Go Invictus events in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>The Games, founded by Prince Harry in 2014, are held biennially at locations across the globe and feature multiple sporting events for wounded, injured and sick military service personnel.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/lifestyle\/celebrity-life\/meghan-markle-to-return-to-the-uk-for-the-first-time-in-almost-four-years-with-prince-harry-and-their-two-kids\/news-story\/fb0ebff128b8b4185c957bcde71b3bd4\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"fb0ebff128b8b4185c957bcde71b3bd4\" data-tgev-label=\"lifestyle\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.com.au first reported the news of the Sussexes&#8217; UK return on Wednesday,<\/a> with a source close to Harry revealing he has felt &#8220;great sadness&#8221; that safety concerns have stopped his wife and children from travelling to the United Kingdom with him in the past.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a real point of great sadness \u2013 for Harry especially \u2013 that he\u2019s been unable to bring his wife and kids back to the UK safely to reconnect with friends and family, but anyone would understand his desire to put their safety first,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe would love to introduce the children to his wider family, to show them the UK, where he grew up \u2013 his homeland. That would be a natural thing for any parent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to JJ Anisiobi, who hosts The Daily Expresso podcast, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11184,64,63,15579,32954,134,228604,5513,145556,7551,360026,3586],"class_list":["post-749625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-aston-villa","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-birmingham","tag-british-royals","tag-entertainment","tag-invictus","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-of-wales","tag-prince-william","tag-the-duke-of-sussex","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}