RICHARD EDEN: As the royal expert who revealed Harry has quit Britain, I know ... trends now
Queen Elizabeth was a wise woman. And when she needed to take decisive action, she did.
That is why she decided the Duke and Duchess of Sussex could not be allowed to combine royal duties with seeking their fortune overseas.
And why she ignored Prince Harry’s efforts to persuade her otherwise.
In his best-selling memoir, Spare, Harry tries to convince readers that his grandmother was bamboozled into taking a tough line against him and Meghan by scheming courtiers.
In my opinion, however, Her Late Majesty knew exactly what she was doing and why.
Now, King Charles needs to take a leaf out of his mother’s book – and be decisive when it comes to his younger son and his role as a Counsellor of State.
As things stand, California-based Prince Harry could still be called on to stand in for his father in some circumstances because he remains a Counsellor of State – which is surely now intolerable.
The situation has since become even more urgent because of the King’s cancer treatment
In today's Daily Mail, in my social diary Eden Confidential, I reveal that Harry has updated his records in this country to make it crystal clear that he no longer lives in Britain.
Filings published by Companies House for ‘Prince Henry Charles Albert David Duke of Sussex’ record that his ‘New Country/State Usually Resident’ is now the United States of America. It was previously recorded as the United Kingdom.
It represents a sharp about-turn for Harry, who declared soon after announcing his decision to quit royal duties in 2020: ‘The UK is my home and a place that I love. That will never change.’
What could have helped bring about that unforeseen change is the growing pressure on US President Joe Biden to release Harry’s visa records.
The conservative Heritage Foundation think tank has been pushing the Department of Homeland Security to open its dossier on Harry under America’s freedom of information laws.
After he admitted taking cocaine in his
