Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
(Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for W+P)Prince Harry addresses rumors that he and Meghan Markle heading for divorce.
“We’ve probably bought or moved house 10, 12 times,” Harry, 40, joked during New York Times The DealBook Summit in New York on Wednesday, December 4. “Apparently we’ve also been divorced maybe 10, 12 times. So it’s like, what?’
Andrew Ross Sorkinwho interviewed Harry backstage at the event, asked him about the public fascination with his marriage, as well as speculation about why he and Meghan, 43, have attended recent events separately.
“Why do you do independent events? Why don’t you do them together?” Sorkin, 47, asked, to which Harry replied: “Because you invited me, you should have known!”
“True,” Sorkin replied. “Is this normal for you? The second article—she’s in California, you’re in New York—they say, “Well, what’s going on with these two, right?” Is that good for you, in a sense, that there’s so much interest in you?’
Harry, son of the deceased Princess Diana – whose every move fueled the tabloids – said no, “it’s definitely not a good thing.”
The prince continued: “It’s hard to keep up, but so you just sort of ignore it. The people I feel sorry for the most are the trolls. Their hopes just build and build and it’s like, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,” and then it doesn’t happen. So I feel sorry for them. Honestly, yes.
Harry told Sorkin that he had “no doubt” that their conversation “will be twisted or twisted in some way against me and maybe you yourself will be mercilessly trolled. … For that I can only apologize, but you invited me, so it’s not my fault.”
Harry and Meghan who tied the knot in 2018, moved to America after January 2020. have announced that they plan to step back from their roles as senior working members of the royal family. The couple initially lived with Tyler Perry before moving into their house in Montecito, California, where they currently live with the two of them children: son Archie, 5, and daughter Lilibeth, 3.
“I love living (in the US) and raising my kids here, it’s a part of my life I never thought I’d live and I feel like it’s the life my mom wanted for me,” Harry told Sorkin on Wednesday.
Harry said his “main goal” is to be “the best father and the best husband” he can be. “The reason these things happened is because of my 10 years in the military and the values and principles I live by,” he said. “It’s getting harder and harder for people who have values and principles as the world starts to change. But the thing I want to be known for is that “He stuck to his values and always stayed true to that principle.”
While attending the NYT Summit on Wednesday, Harry also discussed how he and Meghan have been left without the same level of security they had in the UK (After stepping down from their roles, the couple lost state-funded police protection during visits to the UK. He still has pending a lawsuit against the government that can restore security.)
“I shouldn’t have removed the guard at all,” he said. “But the revelation process has been unsettling and enlightening and now I just have to sit and wait until April.”
