Harry and Meghan told 'go back to America' by former royal aide over Instagram post

Harry and Meghan told 'go back to America' by former royal aide over Instagram postDaniel Windham Wed, October 14, 2026 at 2:54 PM UTC


Prince Harry and Meghan Markle moved back to the UK in August (Image: JONATHAN BRADY, POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been urged to rethink their plans in the UK following backlash over their recent social media posts from a former royal insider.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have come under fresh scrutiny since returning to Britain, with ongoing questions surrounding their security provisions and their position within the royal family.

During an interview with TalkTV host Jeremy Kyle, ex-royal press secretary Dickie Arbiter offered a frank evaluation of the Sussexes, criticizing what he perceives as a glaring inconsistency in their stance on privacy. It comes amid reports that Harry is worried that recent security review measures announced by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood may postpone a ruling on his own risk evaluation.

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His remarks followed Meghan posting footage of her children during a rural outing, just ahead of an anticipated joint appearance with Harry in Nottingham, England.

In the Instagram Story uploaded on Sunday afternoon, Prince Archie, seven, rode a scooter along a tree-lined country road while his five-year-old sister, Princess Lilibet, walked beside him.


Meghan shared a video of her children enjoying a countryside walk (Image: Getty)

Their labrador, Pula, also appeared in the clip, which featured The Temptations' song My Girl, reports the Express.

A herd of deer could be seen in the background. Neither Harry nor Meghan appeared in the footage.

The upload came after footage surfaced showing the Princess of Wales riding the London Underground with her daughter, Princess Charlotte, and engaging with members of the public.

Jeremy proposed that the contrasting videos had intensified a perceived media competition between Catherine and Meghan, questioning Arbiter about whether a struggle for public attention was unfolding.

However, Arbiter dismissed the notion that the women were locked in a direct rivalry.


Dickie Arbiter has criticized the Sussexes (Image: Getty)

"No, there is no media war. It's a war being created by the media," he said.

He subsequently challenged the Sussexes' methodology of publishing family content while expressing worries about protection.

"They are describing what Catherine did, going onto a London Underground with her daughter, and you saw her daughter's face, whereas with Meghan and her children, all you see is the back of their heads," he said.

Arbiter continued, "Look, if they're so concerned with security, don't tell people where you are. Don't tell people what you're doing and don't post on social media."

He contended that the couple's behavior seemed at odds with their stated concerns, stating, "It seems to be a double standard and hypocrisy."

Harry's continued push to obtain enhanced protection during UK visits also drew criticism throughout the interview.

Arbiter raised questions about whether taxpayers should foot the bill for security for the family, considering that Harry and Meghan have stepped back from royal duties.

"It will upset a lot of people if they are forced to contribute taxpayers' money to provide security to two people, four people, who are not working royals," he said.

He further criticized what he characterized as the couple's demands after returning to the UK, saying, "They failed in the States, they come back here and they expect everything to open up for them.

"Life's not like that. You don't say 'open sesame' and life falls into the pattern that you want. You've got to work hard for it."


The Sussexes were living in California before returning to England (Image: Getty)

He wrapped up with a pointed recommendation for the Sussexes, "And my suggestion is, pack your bags, go back to America."

Harry and Meghan arrived back in Britain this past August following a six-year residence in the United States. The pair are scheduled to make a joint appearance in Nottingham on Thursday, representing their first collaborative public engagement since returning.

The location carries special meaning for the duo, as it was where they made their inaugural public outing together following their engagement announcement in 2017.

Their appearance occurs as ongoing discussions persist regarding their status and security protocols.

A correspondence dispatched last month under the King's authority allegedly characterized the Sussexes as "private citizens," a designation that reportedly caught the couple off guard.

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October 14, 2026

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As a filmmaker, Markus Schleinzer owes much to his 17-year career as a casting director.

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Haneke was also the one who urged him to step out from behind the scenes and become a filmmaker himself, giving him three months to write a script.

"I thought, yes, this was a compliment," Schleinzer recalls. "But three months later he called me and said, 'Where's the script?' And I didn't have a single line."

Eventually, he sat down and wrote one. Haneke liked it and refused to let it languish in a drawer, passing it along to French producer Margaret Ménégoz, who called Schleinzer to say she wanted to make it. "So I was trapped," he says. "I couldn't get away from it anymore. This is how I, finally, got kicked in my ass."

His third feature, " Rose ," which screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival ( VIFF ), is a black-and-white historical drama starring Sandra Hüller as a woman who disguises herself as a male soldier in 17th-century Germany. By exposing the contradictions of a society that values people for what they can contribute while restricting who is allowed to contribute, the film turns one woman's struggle to live freely into a broader indictment of the rules governing gender and belonging.

Schleinzer wrote the role specifically for Hüller, whose performance continues to move him even after countless viewings.

"She's the queen," he says. "I've seen it in post-production, whatever, I've seen it a hundred times. Still, there were moments, there were sentences, there were scenes, where she completely moves me, where I start to cry, where I get angry again, like an audience member who sees this for the very first time. And that's the craft she's owning. That's her superpower she's owning."

The film began as a sprawling prose work of roughly 1,000 pages, tracing Rose 's life from early childhood. Of course, Schleinzer understood that no one was going to spend millions making a 45-hour film. "So, we just skipped the first eight hundred pages and we just concentrated on the last two hundred because the ending of the novel could stand for itself."

When Hüller read it, she told him: "You are crazy. This is not a script. That's a poem."

If there is a through line in Schleinzer's work, it is his fascination with people on the margins. "Where we are as a society, how we deal with our so-called outsiders, what kind of society we are is quite interesting for me," he says. With "Rose," he turns his attention to what he considers the largest outsider group in the world: women.

The idea grew out of a conversation with a friend who called to wish him a happy birthday and mentioned having just finished a book about a woman executed on that same date roughly 250 years earlier. Her alleged transgression? Wearing trousers.

The story sent Schleinzer researching the archives, where he unearthed numerous accounts of women who disguised themselves as men for a range of reasons. Some wanted to escape unwanted marriages and sexual harassment. Others did so to gain access to education, employment and military service. Some may have also been lesbian or transgender, he suggests.

In England, Schleinzer notes, one woman rose to a senior officer's rank and fought for the British Empire. It was only at the officer's funeral that it was discovered that the person they had bestowed all these medals on was, in fact, a woman.

More than historical curiosities, such stories reveal how elaborate disguises can become necessary as a means of survival in a world that denies people the freedom to be themselves — both historically and today.

"It's interesting to see the amount of effort that we put into our daily routine in building up our mask," he says. "Sometimes how you behave yourself is a mask: how you move, how you want to be read, how you hold your shoulders, how you walk."

A mask can function as armor, protecting its wearer. "If it's something that helps you, I think it's okay," he says. "But when it becomes a cage, that's the weird part of it."

He describes "Rose" as a "love letter for all those people who, for various reasons, have to hide who they are, or to serve the community they really want to serve or have to put on a mask to achieve the things they wouldn't be able to without them. They couldn't live the fullest life, because we wouldn't let them."

Rose, Schleinzer explains, is not some revolutionary seeking to overthrow the society around her. She simply wants to belong, to work and to serve. The injustice is that she must conceal her identity to do what others are free to do openly.

"I was born a feminist without knowing," Schleinzer says. He grew up surrounded by women, and when he started school at seven, he encountered a different set of rules. He remembers realizing that "there is a different system that exists in the world" and it was one he "didn't like very much."

That discomfort informs the film's treatment of sexual violence, which is present in the story but never shown graphically. Schleinzer made a deliberate choice not to depict the assaults themselves, arguing that images carry a responsibility, particularly in a culture saturated with graphic representations of suffering.

"The cruelest thing in the world is our own imagination," he says. "And the more I feed imagination with images like this, the crueler we can get, because we completely lose empathy."

For Schleinzer, it is important to acknowledge the violence without turning it into spectacle, trusting viewers to understand its consequences without being shown every physical detail.

Ultimately, the central question that "Rose" asks isn't whether people should be allowed to step outside society's expectations, but rather why it's so restrictive in the first place — and what might change if people were given the freedom to find their own place.

"The most difficult thing is to find one's own place," Schleinzer says, noting that what feels like belonging today may change tomorrow. "We have to accept that change is happening every day. And sometimes we just should give things time to see if this could be a good thing or not."

The masks people wear, he suggests, need not be fixed identities or permanent disguises. They can also be a way forward. "So maybe these things we sometimes call masks are just a vehicle for us to get where we have to go."

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