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"Nobody cares!" | Natasha Devon asks why the media is 'obsessed' with Harry and Meghan
Aug 24, 2026
Harry and Meghan are poised to move back to the UK later this month six years after they left for the USA.
The British media have been covering the story non-stop, but Natasha Devon asks, 'Who actually cares?'
She unpacks the 'unhinged' headlines splashed across the front pages and explains why she believes the media is so 'obsessed' with the Sussexes.
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According to YouGov polling, 87% of the population don't care
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They are indifferent to Harry and Meghan coming back to the UK
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I want to know why you think our newspapers are so obsessed with them
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and not just the ones that Prince Harry tried to sue. All of our newspapers are obsessed with them
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They haven't even moved back yet. And the speculation is off the charts
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Why? 0345 6060 973 is the number that you need. You can WhatsApp me on the same number or text 84850
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I mean, I'm looking at some of the front pages from the past couple of days
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First one, Daily Mail. Sussex Security could cost taxpayers 5 million a year
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We don't even know anything about their security arrangements yet. And then a number of opinion pieces
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Sarah Vine, Harry swanning back, must be enraging for William. Alison Boishoff, their friends tell me Meghan is fully behind the shock move
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Robert Hardman, how will this shape the future of the monarchy? The Sun, Harry and Meg coming home
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Six years after Megxit, royals moved back from the US to raise kids in the UK
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The Sun again, Royal Harry Summit at Balmoral. huge front page spread with pictures of the royals the daily telegraph massive picture of harry's face
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harry hopes to win back the king's trust we don't know nobody who comments on the royals ever knows
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actually anything that's going on it's all speculation the mirror no way back to royal life
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telegraph again big picture of harry and megan from the previous day harry's coming home they are
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obsessed and that's before we even get to I mean I gave you a flavour with the Daily Mail there but
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some of the opinion pieces that have been written online are unhinged absolutely unhinged the one
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that I saw that I just think was the maddest and I'm using that term advisedly but it was mad
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was actually in the eye and it was the seven worst school gate blunders that Megan must avoid
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it was either the eye or the independent seven worst school gate blunders that Megan must avoid
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and I thought to myself how has this piece come about is it that somebody in the run to September when all the kids go back to school somebody had pitched an opinion piece about school gate blunders
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And then the editor learns that Harry and Meghan are coming back and going, great, write the piece, but can you somehow shoehorn Meghan Markle into this
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That Meghan must have, there's no reason to put, to insert Meghan Markle into this imaginary scenario
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where parents are doing school gate blunders at all. There's no reason for her to be there in your imagination
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doing blunders at the school gate. And yet there she is. Another truly unhinged take came from Kay Burley's substack
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where she says, forget the carefully choreographed appearances, fix your mother-in-law's fountain
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In case you're wondering what she's talking about there, apparently the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain
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it doesn't always fountain. There's not always water in it. It's running dry. So she has somehow felt that it's incumbent upon her to tell Meghan, not Charles, not William and Kate, not any other members of the royal family, not the estate itself, Meghan specifically, that it is her responsibility to fix that fountain
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in. What is going on? What is going on? 0345 6060 973 is the number that you need. Now, I do have to
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say that even though we have this YouGov polling, which showed that apparently 83%, was it, or 87
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of the country are not particularly interested in Harry and Meghan's return. When you go onto the
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websites of these newspapers, they always have a section at the bottom that will show you which
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are the most clicked on pieces. And on pretty much every newspaper today, stuff about Harry and Meghan
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was in the top three, the top three most read pieces on the site. So I don't know what that
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tells us. Is there a discrepancy between how much people claim to care about Harry and Meghan
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and how much they actually do? Do a lot of people have a secret obsession with this couple
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which the media is just catering to? Or is it that the media has a specific obsession and agenda here
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and they're kind of dragging us along with them? Like I said right at the beginning of the show
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so much of what we talk about is this symbiotic relationship between public opinion and newspaper, specifically agenda
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What is feeding what in this instance 0345 6060 973 is the number that you need Because I think if you normal I mean if you a longtime listener to this show you will know that
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historically, I have really stood up for Megan in particular. She's my girl, right? I am team Megan
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But the reason I'm team Megan is because of all of the vitriol that she has been on the receiving
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end of a lot of it of which was racist let's call it what it was you know when you compare those
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headlines side by side of how Catherine and Meghan are portrayed in newspapers for engaging in
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exactly the same behavior whether it's ordering flowers for their wedding or favoring a particular
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type of scented candle or stroking their baby bump there is a very clear agenda to play into
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all kinds of tropes around what black women are supposedly like. Meghan very often accused of being
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bossy, of bullying, of completely foundless allegations a lot of the time
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And that was very, very clear to me. I went to bat for Meghan on that basis
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if that hadn't have happened i would just think oh that's lovely they seem like a really happy
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couple i mean she's very easy on the eye i do like looking at pictures of her but not in an
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obsessive way just in a like oh yeah she's rocking that outfit i like her hairstyle she's got a nice
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face and then i just get on with my day that i wouldn't think about it any more than that
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it was because of the bullying that she endured, I would say, at the hands of certain media
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commentators that I went into Bat for Meghan. So I'm imagining a world where that hadn't happened
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In a world where that hadn't happened, and I was learning that Harry and Meghan were moving back
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to the UK, I would go, oh, that's nice. Good for them. Guess they're, you know, maybe wanting to
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spend... No, I wouldn't even think that. You know what? I went to speculate there and I went
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or maybe they want to spend more time with Charles because he's had some health scares recently
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or maybe they're trying to mend the rift that apparently has happened between William and Harry
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I wouldn't even think about that. I would just go, oh, that's nice. And I would get on with my day
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I think that is a normal response to go, oh, how lovely
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Or to go, I don't particularly care. I'm going to read another article. I'm going to look at another thing
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I genuinely believe that that is a normal thing to do but you wouldn know that looking at our newspapers they haven even moved back here yet and it is like they learned nothing from the last time around time round and Megan has spoken
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and Harry has written about in his book actually the impact that that intense scrutiny
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had on both of them but on Meghan in particular and it's difficult not to think about Princess
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Diana and the intensity of the media scrutiny with regard to her and how tragically that ended
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and it is like literally no lessons have been learned here I mean to be serious for a moment
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they're not even back yet we don't know any details the speculation the sheer number of
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headlines the domination of the front pages just a cursory glance at some of the newspapers over the
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past couple of days i hope it's not taxpayers money what do people think of harry and megan's
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return to the uk prince harry and megan markle wouldn't do this with their kids in the uk
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unlike Prince William and Kate Middleton. I didn't even click on that to see what they were talking about
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but already trying to create contrast between what Harry and Meghan are doing
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and what William and Kate are doing. The Telegraph. All the times Harry and Meghan criticise Britain
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There's another one. I don't know what paper this was in. Rival courts. Prince Harry's surprise UK return
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may provoke royal spot of bother. So already anticipating some kind of rift
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which no doubt if it does happen they will absolutely revel in with glee we don't want them back london londoners react to harry and
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megan's return prince harry megan markle's uk return signals spectacular defeat as royal experts
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warn of william's showdown another one in all caps the gentleman really megan markle should be
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aiming higher this is speculation that apparently now prepare yourself for this somebody who is an
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actress is going to act in something and there's already disapproval of what she's chosen to act in
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another one prince harry and megan markle's artfully contrived photos were a reminder
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that they're the true heirs megan markle moving back to uk with harry as their marriage is in
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serious trouble i don't know what evidence we have for that megan markle reveals her morning
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ritual at £29 million home ahead of UK return. And then that truly mad one, the seven worst
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school gate blunders that Meghan must avoid. What is going on here
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