President Donald Trump said the United States will not pay the bill for the safety of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The Republican spoke out after the couple landed in California amid the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the Page Six portal, they left Canada last Friday (27) in a private jet, heading for the United States after it was announced that the borders of the countries would be closed. There have been reports that they might need special protection, as from March 31, they will officially leave British royalty.
A representative of Harry and Meghan said that the couple did not intend to ask the country to pay for their protection. “The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have no plans to ask the US government for security resources. Security agreements with private financing have been made”.
Meghan had previously called Trump "divisive" and said he would not live in the United States while he was president. However, the scenario has clearly changed in the face of the need for isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Meanwhile, Trump called Harry and Meghan's decision to leave royalty "sad". He said in an interview in January that he had "so much respect for the queen. I don't think that should be happening to her."
Since announcing their separation from the British royal family, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have maintained an unwavering silence. And despite attempts by the trade press and tabloids to interview them, it was two Russian pranksters who managed to elicit from the Duke of Sussex their first statements about their differences with the British royal family.
Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov set a trap for Prince Harry and posed as Greta Thunberg and her father during a phone conversation, The Sun newspaper reported. Believing he was speaking to the 17-year-old activist, Meghan Markle's husband was relieved and said they are "completely separate from the majority of the British royal family". And not only that: he also spoke openly about Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, the Megxit, or Prince Andrew, among other topics.
According to the British press, the Duke of Sussex was the victim of two phone calls that were recorded by the Russians. The first occurred on New Year's Eve, and the second occurred on January 22. At the time, he and Meghan Markle were already in Vancouver, Canada, and had just announced their decision to abandon all duties as members of the House of Windsor. A question the fake Greta is interested in during the phone prank.
"You can call me as you like. Harry is fine. That's probably a conversation for another time, "Prince Harry began." There are many layers and many pieces to the puzzle. But sometimes, the right decision is not always the easiest. And the decision, for sure, was not the easiest, but it was the right one for our family, it was the right decision to protect my son. And I think there are a lot of people in the world who can identify with us and respect us for putting our family first. It is complicated, but we will start a new life. ”
In one of the two calls, which were posted to YouTube this Monday night, the alleged Greta Thunberg also asks Prince Harry if he believes his life as a commoner is worse than his life as a member of royalty.
"Oh no, I think it's much better. You forget I was in the military for ten years, so I'm more normal than my family would want to believe. Of course, being in a different position now gives us the opportunity to say things and do things that we couldn't do before, "he explained." And seeing that everyone below 35 or 36 seems to play an activist role, It gives us an opportunity to try to make a difference without being criticized. ”Later, at another point in the conversation, the 35-year-old Duke of Sussex assured that his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, has not withdrawn his titles of nobility from him or Meghan.
"No, no, again, you must not believe everything you read. No one has stripped us of our titles. Due to a technicality of the family, if we earn money independently of the structure of the royal family, we were obviously asked to "Let's not use our titles to make money, something we would never do. But the press managed to make us believe that we had been stripped," he said.
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