Prince Harry 'running things behind the scenes' for the Sussex brand, Griffiths claims

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are set to receive a "shield" of protection from the British media with their latest brand move, it has been claimed.The Sussexes, who stepped down as senior royals in 2020, have dramatically revamped their staff structure to echo the hierarchical system that has underpinned the Royal Family for decades.FULL STORY HERE.

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00:00Meghan, in Montecito, in sun-drenched California, have set up what's been described as a royal court.

00:06What's going on?

00:08A royal household.

00:08I'll take it back to the segue of polls.

00:11So apparently, Harry has looked at the latest polls that put him down at 27%.

00:16And he's actually, no, he seriously has.

00:18He's looked at them and he's upset by it.

00:20And he's realised, and this is a source really close to him,

00:23has told me that he's realised there's nowhere to go but up.

00:26So what he's done is he's decided, okay, what hasn't been working?

00:29And that's US sunshine sacks, kind of Hollywood PR agents,

00:34just anything Hollywood and American, basically, hasn't worked for him.

00:38What did work for him?

00:39When was he popular?

00:40When he was part of the royal household.

00:42When he wasn't with Meghan.

00:43Well, and that, but he's never going to admit that at this point.

00:46But anyway, what he's done is he's set up around himself the exact thing

00:50that he's been railing against all these years,

00:52which is a really concrete, firm structure of a hierarchical,

00:57top-down kind of PR voices on his behalf and chiefs of staff.

01:04And it's basically a royal household.

01:06This is like a faux royal household.

01:08And it's interesting you say that Harry actually looks at these things.

01:12He looks at the comments, he reads the headlines,

01:14he looks at the poll figures.

01:15I've heard before that he used to scour Twitter under an anonymous username

01:21looking for anything to do with comments to do with his name.

01:23Is that true?

01:24That is true, although he does now, with this new structure,

01:28they actually protect him from reading the British tabloids.

01:30So they basically read on his behalf the British tabloids.

01:33Meghan does not at all read the British tabloids.

01:36Nothing.

01:36She does not engage in British media whatsoever.

01:38Right.

01:39And she's shielded from that by this new household.

01:41And the point of the new household is this kind of shield around them

01:45that protects them because they hated Kensington Palace.

01:48But thanks to Kensington Palace, they got away with murder

01:51and quite a lot of their behaviour.

01:53And they were really protected by Kensington Palace.

01:56And they were pretty ungrateful at the time, as we all now know.

01:59But they've kind of admitted now, OK, especially Harry,

02:02well, actually, that was quite nice and it's all I've ever known,

02:05having all these people around me protecting me.

02:07Sounds a bit desperate.

02:08Sounds like they've realised that they've messed up.

02:10Nobody really likes them.

02:11The polls are suggesting and showing that Harry's not very popular

02:14and they're thinking, oh, goodness me, how can we salvage this?

02:17But this sounds like a sensible move in Harry's interest.

02:20But the interesting question, Charlotte, is Meghan bought into this?

02:24Meghan is bought into this.

02:25She's been given her own chief of staff

02:27and Harry's got his own separate chief of staff.

02:29And this is quite a big development for them

02:31to have sort of separate people running their lives.

02:33She is bought into it and this is why as well,

02:35because there's going to be a commercial arm to Harry's future months.

02:39I actually don't know the full details,

02:41but I know there's going to be,

02:42and I'm going to be leaked at first, don't you worry.

02:44You mentioned in your piece that Harry wears the trousers.

02:47Yeah, this is what I was told, is that Harry wears the trousers.

02:51I mean, the body language does say otherwise,

02:54but they insist.

02:56I mean, that is their message,

02:57that, you know, Meghan is, you know,

03:00this lovely wife to Harry

03:02and he's kind of running things behind the scenes

03:05and that he's got this new commercial social enterprise venture.

03:10And actually, all this kind of selling jam and pancake stuff

03:13has been her time

03:14and he's been standing back to let her shine.

03:16And now he's going to come forward.

03:17And this year, especially towards the end of the year,

03:20is going to be about him and what he's selling.

03:23It's a sorry state of affairs, isn't it?

03:25Like, Harry, you know, I respect Harry, of course.

03:28He served this country.

03:29He's done military tours,

03:31so you can never disrespect somebody like that.

03:32But it's just, what a sorry state of affairs.

03:35He had it all in the UK.

03:37He then met Meghan and I'm sure,

03:40I don't know her,

03:41I'm sure on a personal level,

03:42she's, you know, a nice lady.

03:43I'm sure she is.

03:44But she's completely rubbed everybody off the wrong way.

03:47And Harry is now, he just looks miserable.

03:49But I'm happy for him in a way

03:50because he's at least realised that

03:52and he's realised what worked before worked.

03:54Divorce then?

03:55Yeah, exactly.

03:56I mean, the saying,

03:57too little, too late comes to mind.

03:59I mean, I do wonder if he regrets marrying her secretly

04:02because of all of his cares.

04:03He's got two children.

04:04Now he's got kids and everything.

04:05She's meant to be a big, big diva.

04:06I'm sure they'll probably stay together, but...

04:08Harry was popular when he was relatable.

04:10Before he ripped apart the royal family

04:12and before he sold out his brother in a book,

04:15people loved him

04:16because he was that cheeky chappy.

04:18For me, over the last five, seven years,

04:20he's just become a bore

04:22and an embarrassment to this country.

04:24But at least now he's owning it.

04:25I mean, that's what we've all been wanting.

04:27It's for him to just wake up and realise,

04:29you know, what have you been doing, Harry?

04:31And now he has.

04:31He's woken up.

04:32I mean, it looks a little bit like

04:33he's perhaps starting to get a little bit of

04:35space and autonomy in that relationship

04:37because I think a lot of us have looked at it

04:39for many years and thought

04:40Meghan was very much wearing the trousers.

04:43He was just being forced to do as she says

04:45and she's completely in charge,

04:46but it looks like he's maybe set some boundaries now

04:49and created a bit of separation.

04:50That's so perceptive.

04:50And maybe that will, as I said,

04:52I think it's a bit too little today,

04:53but it might improve things a little bit.

04:55She'll be after your job, Charlotte.

04:56She'll be down Derry Street.

04:58Again, with respect to Harry,

04:59it looks like his life is in a bit of a mess

05:01at the moment.

05:02We had.

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