Spectator: Prince Harry should divorce Meghan and marry an ‘English rose’

This month has been brutal for the left-behind Windsors, and the imagery has taken an incredibly stark turn in just one week. Last week, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were in Australia, looking fresh and full of charisma, yet another reminder of the powerhouse couple they could have been for the Windsors, if only the Windsors weren’t consumed by jealousy, hatred, pettiness and racism. Crash cut to Tuesday, April 21, and the left-behinds gathered for a “working royal” family portrait which was… pale, stale and very, very old. Instead of acknowledging what has been obvious for the past six years – that they treated Harry & Meghan poorly and the Sussexes are owed an apology – the Windsors and their ever-decreasing defenders insist that the left-behinds are the ones who are owed an apology. Better yet, they STILL believe that Prince Harry should leave his wife and children and come running back to them. The latest piece comes straight out of the lunatic asylum, aka The Spectator. William Atkinson wrote, “We can still save Prince Harry.” You guessed it, this guy is arguing that it would be better for everyone if Harry divorced Meghan and married a white woman. My God. An excerpt:

‘It won’t last,’ my schoolfriend Albert told me, as we staggered down Embankment one summer evening in 2018, a few pints into his birthday pub crawl. I wasn’t sure as to what he was referring. The evening twilight? His youthful good looks? Our ability to walk in a straight line? He expanded: ‘Harry and Meghan. She’s not right for him. They’ll be divorced within five years. Just you wait.’ Then he burped.

I was surprised by Albert’s comments. I, like tens of millions of other viewers, had been taken in by the royal wedding weeks before. Yes, the presence of Oprah Winfrey and an over-enthusiastic American preacher had been a little gauche. But as Harry ‘n’ Meghan tied the knot in glorious Windsor sunshine, a troubled prince seemed to have found permanent peace with a gorgeous wife.

…Like the young Henry V, Harry’s coming of age was his most endearing. Shipped off to Afghanistan, the nice-but-dim younger son who had battled his way to two A-levels at Eton was transformed into a model young soldier. But, once out of the army, rather than settle down with a Chelsy Davy or a Cressida Bonas, Harry found himself adrift. Unlike Henry V, Harry did not have the delights of conquering the French and a diplomatic marriage to keep him busy. Cue the arrival of Meghan Markle and the rest – as they say – is history.

Eight years on, however, and Albert’s pessimism has been confounded. Even in self-imposed exile in California, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex remain married. But their world has been transformed. The split from Buckingham Palace amid allegations of racism and bullying; a tell-all memoir; umpteen interviews, Netflix shows and brand relaunches… The pair might not have wanted to remain royals. But they have served the House of Windsor by providing the world’s longest-running soap opera with a bitter drama that only Harry’s late mother could have matched.

Last week’s quasi-royal tour of Australia seemed to show the pair on top form – a far more successful outing than England’s cricketers managed only a few months before. Harry was shown comforting survivors of the Bondi Beach shooting while Meghan pronounced to some young crowd that she had been the ‘most trolled person in the world’ during a roundtable on social media and mental health.

But behind the rictus grins deployed for their Aussie fans, the world of the Sussexes appears to be a bleak one….While Meghan’s fate is unlikely to elicit much sympathy in a Britain that has long since written her off, Harry’s fate does. Being the royal Rodney to the all-American Del Boy is a cruel fate for a former soldier. He seems lonely, cut off from his family and friends, still trotting out tired cliches about his mental health and estranged from the charities that once gave him purpose. When he was photographed last year ringing various London doorbells to try to find an old friend, it perfectly embodied a lost, young man unable to find his way home.

As one X account has highlighted, Harry was a victim of peak woke. His wife embodies all its worst excesses: the stultifying focus on mental health, a nihilistic desire to tear down institutions, perpetual grievance-mongering around sex and race. As sexist as it may seem to blame Lady Megbeth, marrying her really was Harry’s greatest mistake. But it’s not too late.

Returning to Britain would require the prince to eat a considerable slice of humble pie. He’d have to apologise to his father and brother for the pain he has put them through following his grandmother’s death, father’s illness and sister-in-law’s cancer treatment. But the prodigal son would be embraced by the nation.

The traditional Windsor error-correction route – a divorce – is available. Harry, leave the Duchess of Sussex an ocean away from a country she will never visit. Put the kids in a decent public school, find yourself a new Sloane or English Rose and come home.

Saving Harry would not only give the Windsors some rare good news but would be a sign that even the most disastrous mistakes can be rectified. If The Spectator can save Gentleman’s Relish, we can rescue the Duke of Sussex. If Harry can be fixed, so can Britain. The first round is on me, your restored royal highness.

[From The Spectator]

I’m reminded again of how these horrid people based every decision on the theory that eventually they could separate Harry and Meghan and magically force Harry to come crawling back to them. These delusional jackasses are absolutely FURIOUS that the Sussex marriage has lasted this long, that Harry is not miserable, that they’re wealthy and thriving and free. That’s why they spin these alternate-reality conspiracies that Harry secretly hates his woke wife and he’s dying to be married to a white woman, just like he’s dying to go back to England to be his brother’s doormat and punching bag. The misery, racism and misogyny is just oozing out of these people openly now. Masks off.

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58 Responses to “Spectator: Prince Harry should divorce Meghan and marry an ‘English rose’”

  1. Hypocrisy says:

    This is dangerous writing and targets Meghan in a very sinister and disturbing way imo.. I hope she has added security because of this article.. it’s sickening that they literally are calling for the BRF to get rid of Meghan to bring Harry back to be forced into a marriage with a white woman. I find this terrifying.

    • Mightymolly says:

      Dangerous is right. Leave her AND take her children. Then hide them away in some remote school and begin again with – do I have this right? – a white woman and white babies? JFC! They’re not saying the quiet part aloud. They’re screaming it from the rooftops.

    • Lamb Chop says:

      If Britain felt strongly about it, these stories would stop. Look at Clarkson. He didn’t suffer after his rant which,had it been about Kate,would have possibly landed him in jail. I accept British people on the whole (not the few who post here – and im British born myself), don’t actually care. It IS dangerous, but it’s hardly the first or the 100th. We’ve been outraged by these pieces for 10 years. Something is desperately broken in the UK. Im glad I don’t live there any more. (Yes,btw I do know the deliberate breakdown of services, health,wages housing, cost of living, people don’t have the energy). But the ones who aren’t in poverty, also don’t care. It is broken.

      • TheFarmer'sWife says:

        The Brexit vote provided all the information needed. The conservative party here in Canada is pushing the same scenario. Thankfully, Canada voted for Mark Carney. Things will never be perfect, but most of us are recognizing the past and doing better moving forward. I will never understand how vilifying one woman makes anything or anyone better in the UK. Its all very pathetic on the “royals” part, they look like, and are, idiots.

  2. Wow these idiots just dont care how deranged and utterly stupid that they sound. These little fairytales of theirs are through the fricken roof. Complete with racism and misogyny all out there in writing!!

  3. GoodWitchGlenda says:

    “the world of the Sussexes appears to be a bleak one” lol

    Bleak where? Living with their two kids in a lovely home in Southern California sun, being independent and able to live their lives how they choose…..?

  4. JayBlue says:

    I know it’s all myopic speculation and rage bait, but I seriously struggle to understand why these people think they can publically (and proudly) claim to have some secret insight into h&Ms lives. Like, don’t they feel even a little embarrassed that this is their “job”, to make up nonsense about people they know nothing about?

    • Lamb chop says:

      Nope. This moron absolutely believes what he’s saying. Its the mindset of royalists. They believe all of this. Its rage bait but its also his truth. Put it this, royalists are as blind and deluded as MAGA. its the emperor has no clothes,it doesn’t matter what you see, this is true. Its impossible to understand.

      Plus we know this because lost, stupid, toxic woman are all the themes. None of which are true.

  5. Amy T says:

    Thanks for my morning cup of unhinged. Everyone should be as “lost” as Prince Harry. The world would be a much better place.

  6. sunniside up says:

    What an appalling article, I have read the Spectator in the past, it is extremely right wing but to suggest that Harry shouldn’t have married a mixed race woman is racism.

  7. ThatGirlThere says:

    Self imposed exile. Harry’s miserable. Meghan’s work. The Windsors will save him — blah, blah, blah.

    These journalists are out here publishing their fan fiction journal entries without and shame or self awareness.

  8. Lucy says:

    That’s seriously crazy. I can’t think of any other male public figure that this kind of thing gets suggested

  9. LP says:

    Photographed wandering around ringing doorbells trying to find a friend?? What is this cr*cker on about??

  10. Kittenmom says:

    Treating Meghan as disposable and the kids as a mistake? My hatred for these people has no words. And there is absolutely nothing dim about this war veteran, multiple charity founder, sought-after public speaker, and yes – global statesman.

  11. Dee(2) says:

    I knew after Australia it was going to get worse. The comparison is just to stark now. This is shameful though. The British media really is the dregs. I can’t imagine any other supposedly respectable newspaper/magazine publishing an article like this.

    And here’s the thing, they are just still creating their own reality. Harry does not appear unhappy. He has told you numerous times he’s not unhappy, he in fact specifically said he feels sorry for you people who are constantly hoping that they’re getting divorced. And yet, this is all that they have left. They have to be unhappy because otherwise he really won’t come back to save us.

    Here’s the thing. No one knows the future, I don’t think that they’re going to get divorced, but if they did why do they think that he would just up sticks and abandon his kids? Just to be back under his brother’s thumb? Why on earth would he choose that?

  12. Gah says:

    Is there ANY person in the world about whom “journalists” write articles calling for their divorce and remarriage to a white woman?

    This is unprecedented I think in the public figure/celebrity space. It’s been alluded to for years re Megan and Harry but this is the most blatant.

    These people are disfigured by their pathetic allegiance to a symbol (the CROWN) that DNGAF about them. What a strange culture.

    Are they so deeply racist and xenophobic that they cannot see how ridiculous they are?

    Their attacks on Megan are getting more fierce. Sinister indeed.

    I suppose this is what happens when you grey rock your abuser and your abuser is several systems including monarchy and right wing propaganda.

  13. QuiteContrary says:

    So those beautiful babies are supposed to be taken from the mother who adores them and stashed in a boarding school … and Harry is supposed to abandon the love of his life and marry a white woman???

    The cruelty. The insanity. The utter white supremacy.

    • Mightymolly says:

      Taking the children from their mother is off the charts cruel. Do right wing loonies in Britain applaud that kinda talk? Who TF is the audience for this?

  14. Me at home says:

    Shading the “American preacher” at their wedding and Oprah? Telling Harry to “Put the kids in a decent public school, find yourself a new Sloane or English Rose and come home”?

    Holy cr@p, how is the British press still publishing racist dog whistles in 2026?

    • Jais says:

      They love to be shady about the preacher. It’s disturbing.

      • Queen Anna Royal Gossip says:

        Bishop Michael Curry, the then head of the Episcopal Church in the United States and the contemporary of then Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, completely broke those people. They simply did not know what to do with a him, even though as an Episcopal(aka Church of the quiet spirit), he was relatively tame. There are preachers that would have literally raised the roof off of St. George’s chapel and not looked back, would have held those people hostage for 3 hours and not even given them a bathroom break. They are still spazzing out over what was considered by most African Americans, a mild sermon.

    • Eurydice says:

      These aren’t dog whistles, these are outright racist statements.

    • Tessa says:

      They mean shut away in a boarding school while the English rose has babies

  15. Gah says:

    I want to add that this is truly evil. These systems and the people that uphold them have gone past the point of no return.

    The royals have no shame. Nor do their minions. Or the fourth estate. Such an absolute vacuum of humanity to the point of evil. This is the reality. Kudos to Megan and Harry for enduring. I am saying prayers to my goddesses today for them.

  16. GMHQ says:

    No one makes the greatest argument that the UK is a racist country than the
    Salt Island media and columnists. This is a racist, hateful column by a hateful, racist columnist who assumes the British public agrees with him. Let’s hope not but the palace staffs and the rota seem to be in agreement. And that will lead o the collapse of the entire British monarchy.

  17. Nic919 says:

    Only one couple looks miserable in public and it’s not Harry and Meghan.

    This article is hateful but also diverts from the obvious.

  18. CM says:

    Completely Deranged.

  19. Jais says:

    Whaaaa? What did I just read? Wild.

  20. Mel says:

    On Reddit there’s a copy of an article that says that Willard and Kit Kat ‘s marriage is a mess and Willard wants out but Chuckles won’t let him. I believe that’s the reason for this major breach of sanit and the desperate delusions of this reporter. Distraction!

    • Lamb chop says:

      Anyone with eyes knows its been a mess for years. No way chuck is blocking divorce,though. He’d probably love it, since willy is meant to be the decent family man. Whatever willy did has him stuck. All those drunk appear weren’t for no reason. Kate’s been messy lately but she was cat/cream last year. I would have thought a new mansion with 150 acres stolen land, mother back in society, almost no work and 10 holidays a might be enough but maybe not. Oh well.

    • Mel says:

      I can totally see Chuckles saying : Dear boy, must we have this kind of messiness now? I’m dying and we can’t let the lies explode right now, must keep Andy out of jail you know!”

  21. NoBS Please says:

    “The traditional Windsor error-correction route – a divorce – is available. Harry, leave the Duchess of Sussex an ocean away from a country she will never visit. Put the kids in a decent public school, find yourself a new Sloane or English Rose and come home.”

    Well, that’s one of the most shocking and shockingly racist things I’ve read in a long, long time.

    Right up there with the Daily Mail’s “Straight Outta Compton” and that worthless a*shole Danny Baker comparing Prince Archie to a chimp (for which he was fired).

    Time to complain to IPSO!

  22. Tessa says:

    Cressida was an actress but that was ok. But it was not ok for Meghan to be an actress. Chelsy was treated badly by the media. And she was called clingy .what a horrible thing to write about harry and Meghan who have been married for years now

  23. Tessa says:

    Diana was called an English rose and was
    But she was treated like dirt by that family. She was too good for that family. And so is meghan. Do they want a vapid lazy consort or someone up to the task. I guess they go for vapid and lazy

  24. Monika says:

    Exactly the mask is off.
    They are not even hiding it, they show their British snobbery and their racism so openly
    This “it has nothing to do with racism that we hate Megjan…..” they can really s…. it up their a…. It has everything to do with racism.
    Some in the BM have a really lovely way to insult other cultures, Australians now Amercans.

  25. E says:

    This is some of the stupidest and most offensive drivel I’ve ever seen put in writing. Delusional!

  26. WaterDragon says:

    “If The Spectator can save Gentleman’s Relish, we can rescue the Duke of Sussex.” What in god’s green earth is “Gentleman’s Relish”. Can any of our Brit members enlighten us?

    • Lili says:

      Oh i had to check , lol its a salted anchiovy paste, created by an english man i presume so will come under nostalgia food for being very british

      • WaterDragon says:

        Thank you for responding. Not really an anchovy paste fan, think I’ll stick to Meghan’s jam. ; )

  27. Pumpkin says:

    What a miserable and racist cunt must you be to write this sort of nonsense. This is a low even for the Spectator.

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if Harry wanted to marry a white English rose, he would have. He didn’t want to and he’s certainly not going to now.

  28. Nanea says:

    I just want to add my voice to all of you who have commented before me.

    Like you all, I am shocked by this breathtakingly blatant piece of misogynoir.

    How can men (and women, see other racist rota crazies) be so disgustingly ignorant and dead inside that they think their input is required?

    How can people in the UK media think they need to share their uncalled-for opinion on a couple who is happily married, has a circle of close friends and a functioning social network, who is successful — when the Waleses live right there, undeservedly funded to excess by the British taxpayers, while being visibly unhappy and unhealthy, extremely lazy, reluctant to do the bare minimum requirements of their “job”, seemingly without friends?

    Reading this made me feel ill. Even if I guessed what I might find — it’s the Spectator after all — it was way worse than what I expected.

  29. tamsin says:

    The article lays out all their racism, misogyny, classism, snobbery, sexism, xenophobia, and anti-Americanism in full and in one place. Everything is said out loud. It’s a masterpiece, and reveals everything that is revolting in some of the British mindset and the British press. As far as I know, there is no British publication to counter this, and why is that? Is there no one to at least speak up for basic decency and fairness?

    • Beverley says:

      That’s the million dollar question. I’ve come to believe that racism and xenophobia are cherished markers of many a British mindset. What else can be assumed when pushback is seemingly nonexistent?

  30. Allison says:

    Who the heck wishes for a family to break up?

  31. Ciotog says:

    Lady Megbeth??? Seriously? This is so gross.

  32. Chantal1 says:

    Congrats! Now people can stop pretending that the BM is not the pure embodiment of r@cism and pure evil. The BM hated Meghan from day one bc she’s Black (they only care about her being half white when they trot out the toxic Markles). Hopefully US Media will see this bs and run far away. Unlike the UK, many r@cists in the US are learning that r@cism is indeed very expensive and many MAGA cultists have lost their jobs and/or businesses either directly or indirectly bc of it. So BM, keep publishing this bs bc its guaranteed to drive Harry even further away. You lost any perceived control you and the RF had over him when you repeatedly smeared his wife so badly that she wanted to end her life. You might have forgotten what you did to his mother but I guarantee you that he hasn’t, nor will he ever forgive you while you try to run the same playbook on his beautiful wife and children.

    This is not journalism nor a thoughtful opinion piece! The UK police and intelligence agencies should put many of these so called journalists on watch lists or fixated persons lists. The authorities should also seriously consider psychiatric holds for some of them. None of this is normal! These people are a danger to society in more ways than one.

  33. maisie says:

    Like this dude thinks that future scooter king is gonna issue a royal decree declaring Harry “divorced”, right?

    unbelievable.

  34. Catherine says:

    I remember when Harry was with Chelsy Davy. The derangers called her Miss Piggy. The aristo English actress didn’t come quite up to snuff either. Harry and his wife were always going to be the punching bags for everything that couldn’t be said about the boring, lazy heirs.

  35. Shanta says:

    “The traditional Windsor error-correction route – a divorce – is available. Harry, leave the Duchess of Sussex an ocean away from a country she will never visit. Put the kids in a decent public school, find yourself a new Sloane or English Rose and come home.”….. diabolical

  36. YankeeDoodles says:

    Here’s the tell: “if Harry can be fixed, so can Britain.” …”Broken Britain” is a slogan that David Cameron was using in the 2010 election that he won, albeit with Clegg & the Lib Dems as his coalition partners. It’s now become intellectual property of Reform, the populist little Engländer party that’s home to Nigel Farage. You have to read these ramblings like the symptoms of a troubled man who’s in rehab for the umpteenth time but can’t kick the habit. They want to believe it’s Harry who’s broken, not the man they see in the mirror. Call it a backhanded compliment — he could save them if he wanted to but he’s chosen to save himself. It’s how addicts seethe at users who get sober. Like, they’ve betrayed the brotherhood. Bonkers. Losers. Par for Brexitland.

    • Graphinya Heather says:

      I thought Kate was going to fix Broken Britain a few years ago? Did that fall by the wayside like Willie and racism in football?

  37. L4Frimaire says:

    This is so racist and sexist. The way they project so much of their hatred and inadequacy on Meghan is both disgusting and utterly pathetic. They really think she took Harry from them. Not only that, the way they talk about Harry like he should still be acting like some 19yo f*ck up there to entertain them shows they can’t cope either present day reality. Look st what Harry’s accomplished in the six years he’s left the UK. Just coming off an incredibly successful Australia tour and meeting with dignitaries in Kiev today. The thing is they know it is because of Meghan he’s had this incredible growth so they want to negate both her and their children, and they have incredible charisma. This blank English rose is just a placeholder for a Harry that no longer exists. These guys sound like aging frat boys who peaked in high school, and can’t understand the friend who’s surpassed them, including in the marriage department.

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