Meghan Markle Played ‘Leading Role’ In US Move With Prince Harry, Stanley Johnson Claims

Meghan Markle is reportedly the one who urged Prince Harry to move their family to North America.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced in January that they were stepping back as senior members of the royal family. Following the bombshell announcement, they moved to Canada.

Prince Harry and Markle returned to the U.K. in March for their final engagement. Following this, the couple surprised fans when it was reported that they were already in the U.S. They left Canada and moved to America just in time before the lockdown.

Stanley Johnson, father of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, shared his opinion about the couple’s move. According to him, it was likely Markle's idea.

“Whose decision was it, I wonder, to build a new life in North America? I can’t help thinking that Meghan, as we must now call her, played a leading role here,” Johnson said.

He went on to say that Markle’s desire to return to her roots could be due to the “basic cultural difference between British women and their transatlantic counterparts.” He even mentioned his mom in reference to explain the decision of Prince Harry’s wife.

“I’m thinking of my mother, for example. After my father recovered from his war wounds, he decided to return to the West Country and became a farmer. My mother, who went to Cheltenham Ladies’ College and Oxford University, and imagined that she might marry a diplomat, spent her next 36 years in the old, remote Exmoor farmhouse that I still have today,” he continued.

“She took to heart the famous words in The Bible’s book of Ruth: ‘Whither thou goest, I will go and where thou lodgest, I will lodge.’ The Duchess of Sussex clearly has tremendous charm and talent, but I’m not sure she sets great store by the book of Ruth,” he continued.

Royal correspondent Rebecca English shared a similar report. A senior royal royal source told her that Markle gave Prince Harry an ultimatum to abandon the royal family. The duchess had her husband choose and told him that she and Archie are his family.