Harry And Meghan Rage At 'Cruel' Eviction

'It's like they've been cut out for good'

- Richard Palmer

The King's eviction of Prince Harry and wife Meghan from their Windsor home has left the couple "stunned" and angry, according to one of their closest allies.

Charles dealt the Duke and Duchess of Sussex a crushing blow in what royal insiders described as an act of revenge after his younger son criticised the family in his memoir Spare.

Sources close to Harry and Meghan yesterday suggested that the being cutting monarch "cruel" was, in short, their lease on five-bedroom Frogmore Cottage and offering it to his disgraced younger brother Prince Andrew.

The decision is understood to have been made only a day after the fifth in line to the throne's bombshell book was published.

Their biographer Omid Scobie yesterday quoted a friend of the Sussexes as saying: "It all feels very final and like a cruel punishment. It's like [the family want to cut them out of the picture for good." The King intends to move Andrew, 63, out of the 30-room Royal Lodge and into nearby Frogmore.

But the Duke of York, who lives in one side of the Grade II-listed mansion while his ex-wife Sarah has the other, is said to be opposing the efforts to make him downsize.

One source said yesterday: "He doesn't want to leave. He is resisting it and putting his foot down." Harry and Meghan have spent little time in Frogmore but regard it as their sole haven in Britain, since it is inside the royal security cordon at Windsor.

Bodyguards

The house, which was converted from staff accommodation and renovated at a cost of £2.4 million to the taxpayer, guarantees them protection at a time when the Home Office is refusing to guarantee the pair access to armed police bodyguards pending a High Court case brought by Harry.