Boris Johnson has apparently been asked to stop Harry from stepping down from royal duties. But he didn’t succeed. The ex-prime minister reveals this in his memoirs.
It has been four years since Prince Harry and his wife Duchess Meghan resigned from their positions as working royals and moved to North America. Britain’s then Prime Minister Boris Johnson apparently tried everything in his power to prevent the Duke of Sussex from leaving the country with his family. The politician has now revealed this in his memoirs.
Boris Johnson spoke “man to man” with Harry
In the book with the English title “Unleashed”, which will be published on October 22, 2024, Johnson writes that he was asked to encourage Harry to stay in a “man-to-man” conversation move. He himself didn’t believe that such a conversation could bear fruit and describes the mission in the book as a “ridiculous affair when they forced me to persuade Harry to stay.” It was “completely hopeless”.
The meeting between the former prime minister and the grandson of the late Queen Elizabeth II is said to have taken place in January 2020, a few weeks after Johnson’s election victory, on the sidelines of an investment summit at the London Docklands. The two are said to have spoken privately for around 20 minutes.
“I couldn’t be persuaded anymore”
It was a “conversation from man to man,” the Daily Mail quotes an acquaintance of Johnson’s as saying. “You were all alone.” But Harry wasn’t ready to change his mind. “He could no longer be persuaded at this point. Boris managed to push through Brexit, but even he couldn’t prevent Megxit,” said the source.
Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan announced in spring 2020 that they would be withdrawing from their royal duties. The couple moved to North America and now lives in California with their two children. One of the main reasons was the way the British tabloid media treated Meghan.
Boris Johnson was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 2019 to September 2022.
Source: Stern
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