Prince Harry and Meghan Sussex Apology Story Is ‘Nonsense,’ Source Close to Couple Says

When Charles Spencer said the media is “controlled” by the Royal Family, plenty of people scoffed. Yet, Spencer’s remark feels particularly relevant this week. Prince Andrew is challenging police search warrants connected to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, raising obvious questions about his legal strategy and who is paying for it.

Instead, Britain woke up to another Meghan Sussex and Prince Harry story. British talk shows such as Lorraine and Jeremy Vine discussed and debated this. The Daily Express splashed across its front page that Meghan wanted to make a “sensational apology” to Prince William and Kate Middleton. According to an unnamed source, Harry and Meghan supposedly regretted the Oprah interview and now believed Meghan’s revelation about conversations concerning Archie’s skin colour had been a “low blow.”

Now, it has been revealed that the couple are planning to eventually apologise to his family for Meghan’s claims and the hurt they caused as part of a long-term plan for their fresh start in the UK. A source said: “Their one big regret about leaving the royal family for the US was their interview with Oprah, and Meghan knows her biggest mistake was her claim that a royal family member had discussed Archie’s skin colour. Harry was angry with his family at the time, and backed Meghan up, but they now realise what a low blow it was. They both know they’re hot-headed and realise they took things too far.”

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What a coincidence that this speculative Meghan reconciliation story dropped in the same week Andrew was trying to quash the police search warrants. Thankfully, someone close to the Sussexes responded quickly. Within a day, PEOPLE reported that the supposed apology plan was “nonsense.”

A source close to Harry and Meghan said the couple were not planning to apologise to William and Kate. So the Express’s sensational inside source about a potential apology plan appears to have collapsed almost as quickly as it arrived.

A source close to Harry, 42, and Meghan, 45, tells PEOPLE that the claim is “nonsense.”

The outlet specifically claimed that the Sussexes planned to apologize over Meghan’s revelation during the interview that there had been “concerns and conversations” within the royal family about how dark Prince Archie’s skin might be before he was born.

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Nobody seriously expected Harry and Meghan to apologise for describing something they say happened to them. Still, I am glad a source close to the Sussexes responded directly. The denial shows how easily an anonymous royal claim can reach the front page before anyone verifies it.

And the timing is difficult to ignore. The High Court will decide whether to make specific court documents from Prince Andrew’s criminal case public. So it looks like a sensational manufactured story about Harry and Meghan that pushes Andrew further down the news agenda while once again presenting Meghan as the royal problem requiring correction. Funny how often that happens.

The larger pattern is not simply that Meghan is always expected to apologise. It is how easily she can become the distraction whenever the Royal Family has a much uglier problem on its hands.

Andrew is hardly the first example. In 2021, historian Kate Williams noted that British newspapers had devoted far more space to Meghan’s clothes, nail polish and pregnancy than to allegations surrounding Prince Andrew. Meghan’s lawyer later alleged that palace sources planted negative Sussex stories to deflect attention from damaging coverage of other royals.

Meghan is also an easy target because the hostility already exists. She is American, biracial and outspoken, and Harry was complaining about the racial undertones of press coverage as early as 2016. That is how scapegoating works. You take anger that already exists and redirect it toward someone people have been conditioned to hate.

So when Andrew fights police search warrants while questions swirl over who funds him, a front page demanding that Meghan apologise looks less like coincidence and more like a familiar distraction.