Nearly three years have passed since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s shocking announcement to the world.

They declared that they were giving up their royal jobs and moving to the US to start a new life.

It came after weeks of rumors that they didn’t like living in the palace, and it’s been said that a photo released to mark 2020 was the reason they left.

That year began with the publishing of a magnificent shot of the late Queen with her son, now King Charles, grandson, Prince William, and great-grandson, Prince George.

Clearly depicting the existence of the British Monarchy, this photo was taken in the Throne Room at Buckingham Palace.

But in Meghan: A Hollywood Princess, his unofficial biography, author Andrew Morton says that the photo made Harry and Meghan question their place in The Firm.

He argues that the royal couple had the suspicion that the whole establishment was plotting against them. The proof, as they saw it, was all around them.

“The unspoken code was straightforward: the future of the monarchy was assured, with or without Meghan and Harry.”

To everyone’s surprise, Meghan and Harry announced their decision to stand down from their prominent positions only days after the photo came out.

They explained that they had thought about the decision for “many months” and that they wanted to “carve out a progressive new role within the institution” while also becoming financially independent.

Since then, they have moved to California with their son Archie and started a new life there. They also had a daughter, Lilibet.

In their bombshell Netflix documentary, which came out earlier this month, Harry said that William screamed and shouted at him during a tense Sandringham summit, and that Kensington Palace “lied to protect my brother” when it denied a story that William had forced him out of the royal family.

When the Queen convened the royal family at Sandringham in January 2020 to try to find a solution to the Megxit situation, Prince Harry made a series of explosive accusations against his father, the King.

It was “heartbreaking,” Harry claimed, to watch something he and William vowed they would “never ever do” really happening, as the office where his brother works, Kensington Palace, swapped nasty reports like his father’s did in the past.

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