Meghan and Harry to Royals: “You can’t stop us from doing what we want to do”

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry publicly claimed that as part of the Royal Family, they had no influence over their lives, with the Duchess claiming she didn't even have access to her passport, car keys, or drivers license. However, royal sources have spoken out about the couple's actions before they stepped aside, suggesting that the Duke and Duchess were the ones “calling the shots.”

Meghan and Harry were keen to carve out a position that enabled them to make money whilst staying inside the Royal Family in the months leading up to Megxit, according to royal sources.

There was a persistent conversation from the pair along the lines of: “Why can't we do this?” an insider told the Telegraph.

“You can't stop us from doing what we want to do'.

“They were calling the shots and would be the ones instructing the press office on what line to put out.”

According to sources, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex ‘called the shots' and advised press officers about what facts they thought could be made public.

Despite Harry telling Oprah in the couple's explosive interview that no plans had been developed until Megxit was revealed last January, these contrary allegations have surfaced.

It was also revealed that a year before they stood down as senior royals, they were in negotiations with a £1.3 billion-backed US venture.

From early 2019 until after they left as working royals last January, Harry, 36, and Meghan, 39, are said to have met with Quibi, a now-defunct video streaming service.

According to the Daily Telegraph, Prince Harry met with executives from the American corporation in London after returning from the historic Sandringham summit.

According to the report, an agreement for him to have content on the platform reached advanced stages but eventually dropped apart when the app failed to take off.

These latest revelations dispute Meghan's comments in her recent sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey.

During her extraordinary no holds barred interview with Oprah, Meghan Markle spoke about feeling “trapped” and lonely inside the monarchy.

The Duchess of Sussex described moments as a working royal where she “could not feel lonelier” and said the Palace had refused her the opportunity to even go out to lunch with friends. Meghan said that her isolation became so bad that she just left the house “twice in four months.”

According to royal biographer Andrew Morton, the Duchess was often seen heading back to Kensington Palace with bags of food from the Wholefood supermarket on Kensington High Street. “Other friends have seen her out and about with friends at restaurants and phones and said ‘you'll never guess who I'm sat next to”