EXPLOITATION: Meghan Markle Becomes an “Irritating Irrelevance” | Tom Bower on Sussex Latest

or what I think is a much bigger threat to the royal family than Andrew, because whereas Andrew has destroyed himself, Meghan and Harry still have a long way to go before they completely self -destruct.She's a publicity junkie.She's someone who, once a week, thinks, I haven't been in the news, what can I do to get into the news?Use your daughter, use the jam, use some photographs that haven't been seen.

Hi everyone, Kenzie Schofield here and welcome to Recollections Mayvary, a Royal Recap.Today, investigative author Tom Bauer is in the hot seat.The writer behind Revenge and Betrayal joins me to break down some of the biggest Royal headlines over the month of May.From palace prison predictions to Sussex controversies, we're covering it all.So let's jump right into it.Tom, so good to see you.

You know I'm your biggest fan, obviously.And I wanted to ask you about typically we kind of say on the Sussex beat, but some interesting developments last week when it came to Prince Andrew, former Prince Andrew.He's currently officially under investigation over allegations of sexual misconduct for an incident said to have taken place in 2010.These were.You know, the headlines, I believe it was Friday morning, maybe Thursday or Friday morning, that that came out King Charles over the weekend, reportedly keeping his distance from his brother, despite staying just a few miles away from him at the Sandringham estate.Really, what what can he do?

We would be highly critical of the man if we saw him engaging with Andrew.Don't you agree?

Absolutely.I mean, there's no way that the king could visit his brother, and nor do I think he'd really want to.There's very little they can say to each other.I mean, Andrew is in what can be called internal exile.He's absolutely cut off from the rest of society in Britain.But what I find fascinating at the moment is that the police seem to be finding difficulty in getting the evidence to in any way prosecute Andrew on the sex charges anyway.

And I think that's really because other than Virginia Gufri, no other woman has stepped forward and claimed to have been, in her own name quite openly, attacked by Andrew.I think that has always been the problem, and that will get worse, I think, as the police try to discover the evidence.On the relationship with Epstein, The problem is he's got a great answer, that he was batting for Britain, giving Epstein information, privileged information about Britain's trade relations.He could say was to help Epstein help finance British trade or whatever.So I think, you know, he's clearly a terrible man.We must always remind ourselves live on the BBC interview in unbelievable measure.

He is repulsive in his behavior, but that's a long way from saying that he's criminally responsible.

When you see headlines about the King avoiding Andrew, do you wonder if it's a necessity because these are cases that are currently being investigated and technically in the UK, they prosecute under the King.So could that be misconstrued as an interference in an investigation if we see King Charles engaging with somebody that's currently under investigation, even if it is his brother?

You're absolutely right there.And of course, that is the reason that for a long time, the king refused to see his son Harry, because Harry was suing in the king's court, so to speak, to get protection from the British police.So he's constantly embarrassed the king by his brother by his son.And in any case, The King, after his terrific success in Washington, the last thing he needs now is in any way to be embroiled in any sensation or controversy with Andrew.The best he hopes is that somehow he'll be forgotten.

So it sounds to me like your prediction is Andrew might stay wrapped up in investigations, but the reality of Andrew going to jail, it might be more difficult than it sounds.I mean, I think we're going like there's this investigation.You know, I've lost count of how many investigations.Well, if you're a betting person, then you would say due to the amount of investigations, surely somebody is going to get him.But it sounds to me like you're saying that might necessarily that might not necessarily be the case, because what you need are victims that are willing to identify themselves and come forward and and, you know, take him to task themselves.and they're struggling to locate people that are willing to go on the record.

Well, they're struggling and that has been, other than Jennifer, as I said, there haven't been any other women who've come forward.Now, there could be good reasons for it because they want to lead their private life and don't want to regurgitate what happened many years ago and don't want all the bad publicity that would follow.But that is the problem with the prosecutors and I think the police jumped in because of public opinion and because it did seem an easy an easy target, but now I think they're finding it more difficult than they could have imagined.and of course if they fail to prosecute there will be uproar.People will feel that some will say that Andrew's gone away because of his privilege or one thing or another so I think they've got to try their hardest but I don't think at the moment it doesn't seem they're making much headway let's see.

You're absolutely right.There will be a ton of negative response if nothing actually comes to fruition.And they will say he got away with it scot free because of the king.The king doesn't want that either.So that that's a very difficult position for those investigators that they're in.What's going on with Fergie?

Do you miss Fergie?Do you know where where's our where's our friend Fergie?And how do you think she's reacting to those P .D .D.

headlines often?Whatever.I think she must be absolutely miserable in her, wherever she's hiding out.And that's interesting.And knowing that her daughters, too, are taking the flak.I mean, that whole family has crushed, crashed.

to the ground with a huge wallop, and no one feels any sympathy for her or her daughters.In fact, their best bet is to stay in the shadows, but the daughters can't resist a bit of publicity, and that always arouses people's interest in what's happened to their mother.But she's pretty much stayed hidden.I'm sure she's in a terrible state, wondering whether she should write her book or not.

Because that would at least give us some money.Exactly.Do you you said no one feels sympathy for the daughters.I agree.I agree with you.I know I know I have received a little negative backlash over my criticism of the daughters.

But, you know, it's my understanding that they engaged in a lot.Well, first of all, they voluntarily jumped on an airplane and went to visit.Jeffrey Epstein after he was released from jail for being a sex offender.And then you know it I think that they recognize that some of the financial gifts that they received or relationships that they developed through their parents might not be on the up and up that's my personal opinion.I also will probably never forgive Eugenie who I've seen several times out here in California with Prince Harry It feels like there's a lack of loyalty there to Prince William, who's going to be the king one day.So I agree with you.

I really don't sympathize with the girls.I had another, I had the author Andrew Lowney tell me he felt like they should give up their titles and give up their, the homes that they received thanks to their proximity to the royal family.What is your take on that?

Well, they do have access.They do have flats.apartments in St. James's Palace which I think should be taken away from them.I mean initially my feeling was that the sins of the parents should be visited on their children but I've changed my opinion on that now because I hadn't realized at the time how they really had exploited their titles for financial benefit.I knew they were lazy and they'd had 10, 15 holidays a year at other people's expense.But I think now the royal family has to draw a line.

And I think that's very much what William and Kate want.The question is only when and where.I think they've clearly been told to try and keep a low profile.Otherwise, they will be in trouble.I think they all have.But I think that's something which the king, he needs to get through.

So much.He needs, first of all, to get through the Andrew investigation.He needs somehow to settle with Harry, who is due to come to Britain in July.And they're causing trouble.It's not easy.And they're very thin on the ground, the Rock family.

That is another problem.The Queen isn't that well, and it is a struggle.

Let me ask you about Harry and Meghan, because Betrayal was released this year, and I felt like the second Betrayal was released, of course, they accused you of...I don't even remember the way that they phrased it, that they accused you of having, you know, having it out for them and not having your facts straight, which is...hilarious coming from the My Truth couple.But Betrayal comes out and it almost seems as if there is a wild PR pivot right after your book is released.And maybe it's the departure of Meredith Mains.

I don't know.But now Meghan Markle is mother of the year.She's really trying to push the family stuff.Disneyland pictures, you know, all of this.happy, go lucky.No, I'm not a mean girl.

I'm a sweet mom, you know, story.Harry is in the Ukraine.Harry is writing articles about anti -Semitism in the UK.First of all, let me ask, am I crazy and feeling like there's been a shift in the tone or the shift in the way that they present themselves in 2026?

No, I think you're absolutely right.And I think my book, Portrayal, landed just at the right moment, just as they were shifting gear, having fired Meredith's manes, which I think I've been told about, it was likely.But the book altogether casts a whole new light on what I think is a much bigger threat to the Robb family than Andrew, because whereas Andrew has destroyed himself, Meghan and Harry still have a long way to go before they completely self -destruct.And the process is fascinating, and that's why I wrote the second book.because what had happened in the previous three or four years was so extraordinary and now I think that their whole operation, which is now poorly financed because they're not earning real money anymore, is survival.They are desperate to make sure they don't go under and finding ways in which they can somehow prove still relevant.

And that isn't easy because, frankly, they're not relevant other than the potential damage they can do to the royal family in Britain.But also it's fascinating to watch how they slowly are falling.I mean, there's no doubt the descent is much more interesting now than the ascent.And that may be prolonged.We don't know yet.

You talk about desperate.What was your reaction?Because mine was disbelief.when you realized that someone from Megan's camp approved uploading pictures of Megan with sick children, with victims and survivors of the Bondi Beach shooting, up on an app where you can purchase the clothing she's wearing while sitting next to these families and these sick children.Desperation is like the best way to describe that, but there's also like a little bit of shamelessness in there that it's really hard to comprehend, that somebody would be like, Yeah, I'm thinking about all the steps and all the repercussions and it's all systems go.

It's exploitation of the situation.I mean, it worked for Meghan when she was in the so -called Royal Tour, which I described in portrayal in Nigeria and then in Colombia.And she did, of course, the same when she visited Jordan with the World Health Organization.But Bondi Beach was alsoterrible mistake, as was her trip to Australia.She fell flat on her face, and she tries to empathize.

She did it, of course, in Texas when the school shooting happened.She flew there to lay some flowers and then ignored her father, who at the same time had had a near -death stroke.I mean, everything is for commercial and for personal publicity.I think the Bondi Beach was gross, it was insensitive, but it showed the real Meghan.Anything to earn a dime, anything to promote herself at anyone's expense.And unfortunately, I feel that their trip to Jordan, which followed that, was very, very badly ill -considered.

It was a great mistake of theirs.Because, of course, that is what triggered Harry's article in London in a magazine called The New Statesman about anti -Semitism, where of course he attracted a lot of criticism.First of all, because the article read as if it had been generated by AI.No human being could have written alongside an article like that.It was absolutely turgid prose.of the sort that AI and Chatbox professionally produces.

Also, of course, he forgot to mention what started the whole saga, which of course was October 7th attacks.Really what he lets himself down with and exposes his prejudice is when he keeps on talking about the suffering of innocence.Well, if there wasn't suffering of innocence on October 7th, where was there, but he forgets to mention them, as he did of course when he and Meghan visited Jordan to visit the palace ofvictims there, cared for by the very anti -Israeli WHO.So, you know, they keep on seeking opportunities to appear in public, keep on seeking opportunities to promote themselves as great humanists.and keep on making mistakes because they don't realize how complicated the world is and how they're totally ill -equipped to cope with those complications.

Yeah, I mean, Megan was photographed in Geneva with somebody that has been accused of racism and sending sexually inappropriate messages to co -workers, I believe.They were photographed in Jordan with people that had pro -Hamas propaganda littered on their social media.When you talk about ill -equipped, you know, these two, they don't do their due diligence.They want to show up.They want their picture taken, and they want to get out of Dodge, and they want to sit back and read the praise.I mean, it was like copy and paste for some of the tacky outlets that worship at the ground of Meghan Markle.

Meghan Markle's powerful speech was like, I found five different websites that literally had almost the same headline.Meghan Markle gives powerful speech.They don't want to do the work.They don't want to do the research.And I think Well, I think that that's why they have fallen out with Spotify and, in some cases, Netflix.But how can the palace allow them to continue to do this while utilizing their titles?

Perception is reality, and so people are assuming that there is an association to the royal family when it's the Duke of Sussex writing an article in the New Statesman.How can they not step intoBecause these two are jeopardizing the credibility and the authority of the British royal family.

I agree, and for many years I've been saying that the only solution will be to strip them of their titles.I think the difference between the Jordan Wizard and the Swiss by Megan was that they clearly had a relationship with the WHO and Megan has always shown the sympathy for the Palestinian cause.I showed my book how she gave a grant, Archwell gave a grant, to a pro -Palestinian group in America, I think in Michigan or somewhere.But the New Statesman article was a whole new different ballgame.This is where Harry, trying to speak about Britain, which he's barely visited for many years, tries to talk about anti -Semitism and racism, which he knows absolutely nothing.Except for the Nazi costume he wore.

That's right.He admits he made his mistakes.But you see the real issue, and this is what's so fascinating, is what he's going to do in July.In July he's coming to England for the rehearsal of the Invictus Games, which are of course the games for injured soldiers and men and women in the services, and he's going to the city of Birmingham, which has a huge Muslim population, which has been absolutely viciously anti -Semitic and kept out through a series of lies and corrupting the local police, kept out the supporters of the Maccabi football team who are due to play a local team called Aston Villa.That's some months back and caused a huge row.The police chief lost his job.

Now Harry is going to find that of course part of the Invictus Games includes a team from Israel, the very peoplewho've been fighting in Gaza and Lebanon.So, what's he going to do?And, of course, there are strong rumors that Boeing, who are a major sponsor of the Games, don't intend to help finance these Games next year.So he's got a financial problem, and a political problem, and a religious problem.And how does he cope with it?

Well, Harry, unfortunately for him, is a person who's least well -equipped to cope with those sort of problems.And he's got a wife who flies all the way to Switzerland, clearly for a fee.to deliver an inane, purposeless speech for the very good reason she's got nothing to say.She absolutely can only talk about the same thing again and again and again.

And how are we supposed to take her seriously when just days ago she'd posted a picture of Lily on Instagram?You're telling us AI is bad while using an app where we can shop your closet thanks to AI.And you're saying keep kids off the Internet, protect children from the Internet.while you're exposing your children without their consent to vicious strangers online?

Absolutely.I mean that I was going to say that was absolutely and of course she's been doing it constantly.The use of her children as I document in the book very clearly is unbelievable and it's always Lilibet much more than Archie.It's always the exploitation of Lilibet and the coy shot, but it is terrible.But of course, we haven't mentioned her attempt to re -enter the jam market, which is pretty amusing.How she also on Instagram featured her jam, which no one wants to buy, which millions of bottles are stacked up somewhere in her godforsaken warehouse somewhere.

So it's absolutely hilarious watching them struggle.The survival is good.to be a fascinating story to see how they financially even cope with the world they're now living in without an income.

Oh, it's frightening to even imagine, although actions have consequences.Tom Bauer, talk to me about Invictus, because we're seeing leadership step down.Very important people that Prince Harry had a lot of faith in that are stepping down.The potential of big sponsors dropping out.Does it you document the Senebale fallout so beautifully in Betrayal?Is this giving you deja vu at all?

Well, absolutely, and déjà vu with gold brass taxon.I mean, we're now talking about an international sports competition, which is very, very worthwhile, which, of course, has fallen into the hands, the clutches of Meghan, because she exploits it mercilessly to promote herself and her clothes.And the moment she leaves the venue, whether it's Vancouver or Düsseldorf or whatever, the interest in the Games falls to zilch.and of course she hoped to do exactly the same in Birmingham in July.That's what Harry asked the king to facilitate.I'm sure they won't help her.

I'd be absolutely appalled if they did anything to let Meghan come and parade her clothes here.And the games, which as I say are very worthwhile and much enjoyed by the 500 competitors, are jeopardised by the antics of the founder Harry and his wife.That, again, is something well worth watching, because the British government and everything will finance a lot of the games, and the sponsors will undoubtedly have concern that they're being exploited by Meghan, and Harry can't keep it together if he loses important leaders.It's very interesting.We're going to see in a few weeks' time,what the result is.

You know, Megan had a stop on the way home from Geneva in the UK.And we only know about this because she posted on Instagram a very bizarre love letter from the flight crew to her.Happy anniversary.I've never seen somebody try so hard to prove that they're not the most unpopular person in the world.

someone who fled England because she needed her privacy.Never let us forget that.I mean, I know, it's absolutely astonishing.And then, of course, the publication of all her very top secret wedding photographs to mark the eighth anniversary.That as well was absolutely another invasion of her privacy.I mean, she is literally digging and digging and digging, looking for something to get attention and probably can't understand why there isn't a huge wave of adoration for her.

She'd have to be puzzled why people don't love her.And that makes it even more interesting.

I mean, it's exhausting.I feel like I'm being accosted, like I've considered the restraining order.You know, they used to joke that you wish you could type in the word Kardashian to block the Kardashian stories from your feed.I mean, I would do it with with Harry and Meghan because she is clearly so desperate.When it comes to those pictures, too, it doesn't feel like a very clever business strategy, because I think that I do think that there are outlets like Netflix or a Penguin Random House, you know, a book publisher or a streaming service that would see the value in some of those never before seen pictures for a documentary about, you know, 10 years after Megxit or the 10 year wedding anniversary.If I were her, I would have held on to those images because I think somebody would have paid for them eventually.

And here she is giving them away because she wants that dopamine hit.She wants to see her name on the headlines of People magazine and Us Weekly and some of these other places that pander to her, oohing and aahing over these pictures.

She's a junkie.I mean, she's a publicity junkie.She's someone who once a week thinks, I haven't been in the news.What can I do to get into the news?Use your daughter, use the jam, use some photographs that haven't been seen, take a paid trip to Switzerland to hope that somehow you get noticed again.I mean, there's a grid.

The trouble is, it gets worse and worse.But of course, we're not sick of it.We just want to see how it'll end.It's going to be Fascinating.And in my view, it won't be too long, because there is a limit to the tricks she can pull.There is a limit to the number of stunts which she can actually summon up.

And then will come the reckoning.And that's what we're all looking forward to.Well, I know.

No, it's OK.The audience is with you.I can I can guarantee the audience is with you.We mentioned the Geneva trip.Was there something really embarrassing about the fact that she was talking to an audience of none?I mean, watching the people walking around the the event, totally unfazed by her, not grabbing their cell phones to capture a picture or video of her.

They couldn't care less who she was or what she was doing.I felt like that event harmed her more than it did her good.Like, I know we always joke that she's trying to be the second coming of Angelina Jolie, although Angelina Jolie would neverdo a carousel of 20 pictures from her wedding.You know, Angelina Jolie would never invade her own privacy the way that Megan consistently does.But I thought that that Geneva trip, aside from the speech, like you said, being incredibly boring and not her not saying anything that I would embroidery on a pillow.

It was a reflection of how irrelevant she has become.

Well, I think that's absolutely right.And it's very interesting that we never discovered what actually happened in Sydney at that very expensive meet Meghan dinner.Clearly, they made sure that nobody was able to publish anything embarrassing and all the rest.And then she exposes herself in Geneva and gets a wallop of Mark, a self -made.So That's her problem.How does she find a venue?

And that is actually, if I could say finally, what I do think is actually her tragedy.If she had stayed in Britain, if she'd just accepted the rules, she would have been a much loved member of the royal family.She would have gone to open a hospital or a children's clinic, or she would have been seen a few times a year at various venues.Harry would have retained his popularity.people would flock to see him and listen to him and she would have had a very comfortable life but she thought she knew better and there is something which is absolutely true in this world that as you go up many people are waiting to see how you come down and she made some very very poor strategic errors thinking she could profit from the title without any consequence, without paying the dues.And of course, in the end, I have no doubt there'll come a day when it will.

lose their titles and their children too, because they will just be forced to go too far for their own survival.And at that moment, the same will happen to them as what's happened to Prince Andrew.

I mean, I agree with you, but I also want to clarify that the reason we would still love Meghan Markle is because the handlers at the palace do such a great job of making some of these characters tolerable.I mean, I think that the Harry we see today is probably who Harry truly is, and the Harry we fell in love with was the picture that the palace painted that we liked.But I don't know if I really like, I think we know, we're seeing who Meghan Markle is, and I don't like her, but when they were under the cloud of the palace, where everything was protected from speeches to who they were pictured with, to the way that they dressed.When they were under that control, and I hate to use that word, but when they were under that highly choreographed, you know, whatever you want to call it, system, They are likable, but maybe we are seeing who they truly are.

What is very interesting, which I was surprised by, and comes up early in the portrayal book, is when a very, very famous member of the British establishment, really a household name, is asked by the Queen to explain to Meghan before the wedding what life will be like.And that person goes to visit her every three or four weeks in Kensington Palace.and after the third and fourth visit tells the Queen that Meghan has absolutely no intention of staying in Britain after the wedding and there's a lot of trouble ahead.Of course, it was too late to do anything, but they saw it long before.that glorious day in June.And I'm afraid that that is her problem.

She is very calculating and very ruthless and very self -promoting, but she's taken on more in the end than she can chew.And I do think in the end, one of the greatest mysteries, which I got glimpses of and revealed in the book, but whether she's really happy or miserable, whether she realizes what an awful fate awaits her in the years to come when she hasn't got any appeal at all, and people on the whole are bored to death with her and her jam and her silly speeches and ridiculous shots on Instagram, and suddenly becomes an irritating irrelevance.And that is really, I think, in her darkest moments, her greatest fear.What happens when the show stops completely because the world is not interested.

Wow.Well, Tom Bauer and I are going to let you know because we're on the case.We're staying glued to this story and we'll stay on top of it and keep discussing it with everybody that's watching.So basically, you're absolutely right.So much of this or if you're watching this kind of unfolding and you're confused as to how they got from this place to that place, well, the answer is revenge.The answer is betrayal.

You got two incredible, you know, dictionaries or you know just bibles on everything that's happened in the last few years and i've said this before i'll say it again betrayal is just the receipts it's the everything they've said and you counter it everything you've said that could be considered dishonest everything you've said that they were i mean truly i'll ask you just really quick before i let you go they've announced four nowprojects, Meet Me at the Lake, The Wedding Date, this new Afghanistan project, The Polo Show.What are the odds, in your opinion, that those will actually come to fruition?

None.I mean, of course they won't because they haven't got the talent.

Right.

But I should say what's very interesting about all this is how when Harry goes on about killing the innocents, Here's the man who in his own book boasted about killing 25 Afghans.He doesn't know if he was guilty or not.And that is what's so extraordinary, the sheer hypocrisy of a man and his wife who preach and forget their own sins, which are documented in the books in what I can only call a gripping narrative, a great story, a roller coaster.It really is an amazing story.But it really is. I mean, that is really what is the punishment of these people?It's that they're being such hypocrites to preach love and forgiveness and all the rest of it and then boast about shooting people from your helicopter.

What an extraordinary lack of self -awareness.

Love, forgiveness.Sorry that you lost your limb, dad.Not my problem.Love, forgiveness.Sorry that Prince Philip died.We're still going all in on Queen Elizabeth.

Love and forgiveness.But that's why I love betrayal because I'll be like, I remember when they said this, I can go look in your book and see that you have the receipts for everything that counters that.It's an incredible book.It's very well researched, and I'm so grateful that it exists.So go buy it if you haven't.What the heck are you doing with yourselves?

Agree with us.Disagree with us.Let us know in the comments below.Make sure you like, subscribe, and share this video with a friend.Tom Bauer, you're my favorite date.Thanks for being here today.

I look forward to seeing you again very soon, I hope.I love picking your brain.Thanks for your knowledge.

It's lovely being with you.