While reports of the strings Prince William may or may not be pulling and actively manipulating as the future king of England can't be trusted with certainty, questioning recollections from those who witnessed exactly what drove Prince Harry and Meghan Markle away is a lot harder, especially since they establish how the process of making the couple feel powerless within the palace walls was a gradual process and didn't just happen overnight.
So far, we have heard many instances of what Meghan and Harry faced as a newlywed couple and how King Charles and Prince William refused to do the bare minimum to lessen their suffering at the hands of the relentless paparazzi or the palace politics. From heartlessly shooting down the Duchess of Sussex's plea for professional mental health help to using Harry to save Wiliam from a scandal, those within the parameters gave the duo enough reasons not to stick around in hopes of things ever getting better.
Sadly, even Harry and Meghan's wedding day couldn't escape this chaos.
Whether you believe Princess Diana's youngest or make the numerous reports your source, William's disdain and dislike for Meghan before Harry married her has been recounted way too many times. But as we know, his brother did not heed the Prince of Wales' words and proceeded with the wedding and continued to take Meghan's needs and emotions into account, which also included following the American tradition of seating couples together at the ceremony - something that irked William and Kate to the point that they blatantly changed the arrangement, going against the then-about-to-be-married couple's decision, as shared by Harry in his book, Spare.
The real kicker? They point blank refused it was them who made the change, tried to blame it all on an unknown "someone else," and then tried to turn it around by stressing a lie where Harry and Meghan has supposedly pulled the same sitting system at Pippa Middleton's wedding in 2017.
"For our part, we chipped in that we weren't too pleased when Willy and Kate switched place cards and changed seats at our wedding. We'd followed the American tradition, placing couples next to each other, but Willy and Kate didn't like that tradition, so their table was the only one where spouses were apart.
They insisted it wasn't them, it was someone else. And they said we'd done the same thing at Pippa's wedding. We hadn't. Much as we'd wanted to. We'd been separated by a huge flower arrangement between us, and though we'd desperately wanted to sit together, we hadn't done a thing about it. None of this airing of grievances was doing us any good, I felt. We weren't getting anywhere."
It was William's word against Harry's and it doesn't take a genius to figure out who was believed over whom. This was when Charles wasn't the king and his future as one was expected to last as long as his mother's did. But could Harry be presenting an exaggerated account of that day's events? Maybe, but if he is not, any chances of his future royal return look slim now that "Willy and Kate"'s glittery, crown-adorned future is expected to be here sooner than initially predicted with the King battling cancer.