Meghan Markle, Prince Harry 'Tried Everything' Before They 'Stepped Away,' Royal Biographer Says

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry left their royal life behind only after doing everything they could to make things work, according to royal biographer Omid Scobie, who worked closely with them when they were still working royals.

Scobie, co-author of the Sussex biography "Finding Freedom," made the revelation when he spoke with Glamour recently. He recalled a conversation with Markle wherein the latter reportedly told him, "It didn’t have to be this way."

Apparently, she and Prince Harry never wanted to stop their work with the royal family but were made to feel like they had no other choice but to leave, according to the royal correspondent.

"I hope people realize this is a couple that tried everything they could to make it work before they stepped away," Scobie told Glamour. "Rather than following the narrative that they just quit because they couldn’t have it their way."

The issue was bigger than Prince Harry and Markle, the report noted. It also didn't start with them but with the "misogynistic way the press," particularly the British press, treated the women in the institution, per Glamour.

In the 1930s, Wallis Simpson, whom King Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry, was described as someone with "limitless ambition." Meanwhile, Kate Middleton was called "Waity Katie" because it took almost a decade before Prince William proposed to her. Markle also faced backlash because she is divorced and a woman of color.

"To see someone so broken in that moment, so upset and vulnerable," Scobie said as he recalled his emotional conversation with Markle in March 2020. "She was standing in the middle of the palace, and she knew she would never be there again as a working member of the royal family. In that moment you realize it wasn’t just a difficult couple that failed to make it work. It was an entire institution that failed to nurture and protect a newcomer into the fold."

"It’s a problem we see over and over again: Women marrying into the royal family, and they leave battered and bruised. I think that, really, the treatment of women within the royal family, or newcomers, is where the true problems lie," he added.

Markle and Prince Harry are expected to share more details about the events that led to them step back from royal duties as well as their plans for the future in their sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey this Sunday on CBS.

Just recently, Markle's "Suits" co-star Patrick J. Adams penned a scathing statement about the royal family and the palace officials, calling them "shameless" and their actions "obscene." This came after a U.K. newspaper reported that Markle has been accused of bullying royal staffers.

Adams wrote on Twitter, "Find someone else to admonish, berate and torment. My friend Meghan is way out of your league."