Meghan Markle did the "greatest kindness to a desperately unhappy" Prince Harry with 'Megxit', a new book has claimed.
The book, Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown by Valentine Low, explores what happened when Harry, 38, and Meghan, 41, sensationally left the royal family in early 2020.
The couple, who married in 2018, announced their plans to leave The Firm on January 8, via a statement on their now-defunct website, Sussex Royal.
According to the book, an extract of which was in The Times, Harry was left "incensed" after sending an email in late 2019, telling his father that they were "desperately unhappy", and had plans to live more permanently in North America, where they had been staying with their baby son, Archie.
The book said: "The reply they got, however, was that this would require a proper family conversation. They were also told that the first date that the family would be available was January 29."
It said: "Fom the Sussex point of view, this went down incredibly badly. It fed into the narrative that they were not being taken seriously by the palace machinery, or by the rest of the family."
The book also claimed that Harry had tried to speed up matters by arranging to see his grandmother alone before he left Canada, before the message was conveyed to him that the Queen had been confused about her diary, and was 'no longer available'.
Harry was apparently 'incensed', because he deemed it not true that the Queen was not available, and instead he blamed the courtiers who 'had got in the way', as they appeared to want the conversation to be had by the whole family rather than just the Queen and Harry.
As one source put it, “There was a danger that a private conversation could be interpreted very differently by two people.”
According to the book, Harry and Meghan felt "cornered, misunderstood and deeply unhappy."
Although it's been widely considered that Meghan initiated the couple's desire to break apart from the royal family, the book claims that she actually found a 'solution' for a 'desperately unhappy' Harry.
It said: “There is a part of me that thinks Meghan did Harry the greatest kindness anyone could do to him, which was to take him out of the royal family, because he was just desperately unhappy in the last couple of years in his working life.
"We knew he was unhappy, but we didn’t really know what the solution would be. She came along and found the solution."
Meghan and Harry now live in Montecito, California, with their two children, three year old Archie and one year old Lilibet.
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