{"id":374713,"date":"2026-10-16T11:26:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374713\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T11:26:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:26:57","slug":"its-unforgivable-harry-and-meghan-tear-up-queens-megxit-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374713\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s Unforgivable\u2019: Harry and Meghan Tear Up Queen\u2019s Megxit Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most consequential thing to happen yesterday happened in the rarefied pages of Hello! magazine, where a \u201cfriend\u201d of the Sussexes was put up, with impeccable timing, to announce that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex do not consider themselves bound by the Sandringham agreement, the settlement the late Queen hammered out in January 2020 to let them leave, because they never agreed to it in the first place.<\/p>\n

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Here is the quote, as given to Hello!\u2019s royal editor Emily Nash<\/a>: \u201cIt doesn\u2019t trouble them. They never agreed they wouldn\u2019t be half in half out. That was what was decided and foisted upon them. They\u2019re just living their lives and they can, because they\u2019re financially independent.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201chalf in, half out\u201d model was the thing Queen Elizabeth II ruled out at Sandringham. It was the central tenet of Megxit: you are either a working royal or you are not. It was the basis on which Harry and Meghan left this country, and the basis on which the entire post-Megxit structure (the HRHs held in abeyance, the loss of the military appointments, the end of public funding, the private patronages they were allowed to keep) was built. And the Sussexes\u2019 position, six years on, is that none of it counts, because nobody made the Queen sign a contract with her grandson.<\/p>\n

The statement (let\u2019s be honest, this has been spoon-fed by their office) has gone down spectacularly badly with my sources this morning.<\/p>\n

One friend of the late Queen, who is also close to the wider family, told me: \u201cIt\u2019s unforgivable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most consequential thing to happen yesterday happened in the rarefied pages of Hello! magazine, where a \u201cfriend\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-374713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}