Tom Sykes says the British public want Harry exiled forever while he ignores royal taxes & finances

Tom Sykes argues that the Sussex UK visit represents what he is calling Megxin, a structural reintegration of Harry and Meghan into the royal family driven by Charles in defiance of his heir and against the wishes of the British public. He says Charles has rolled over and accepted a jaw dropping surrender, allowing Harry and Meghan to earn money in America while being treated as cherished family members in the UK. He says the British public is much more sympathetic to William's hardline position, that Harry deserves to be exiled forever. He says Meghan's return will go down like a lead balloon. Let me take these claims in the order they deserve. Tom Sykes confirmed on the record this week that the emotional blackmail framing, the single most damaging piece of language used against Harry's visit, originated from the Wales camp. He confirmed it himself. He is therefore simultaneously the journalist who confirmed William is briefing coordinated attacks against his brother through the press, and the journalist now publishing a piece arguing that William's hardline position reflects the wishes of the British public. These two things cannot both be true without acknowledging that the British public's supposed views have been manufactured by the briefing operation Sykes himself just confirmed exists. The British public, Tom. Let us discuss them. YouGov this week showed the monarchy's overall public support has fallen to its lowest level in thirty three years. The most commented royal story on the Express this week was about Buckingham Palace, not about Harry and Meghan. The royal financial accounts, showing one hundred and seventy seven helicopter journeys, a five hundred and thirty million dollar empty palace, and a billion pound duchy paying tax without a published breakdown, generated genuine public anger in comment sections that had nothing to do with the Sussex visit. A former palace aide told RadarOnline this week that the monarchy cannot expect applause for publishing tax figures when bigger questions about vast wealth remain unanswered. The British public is not, as Sykes claims, primarily concerned with whether Harry is sufficiently punished for leaving. The British public is increasingly concerned about whether an institution receiving one hundred million pounds annually in public money, controlling assets worth billions, and sending family members on one hundred and seventy seven helicopter journeys while ordinary households navigate a cost of living crisis, represents value for money. That is not a conversation Tom Sykes's Substack is interested in having. Because that conversation does not serve the interests of the source who confirmed the emotional blackmail framing to him. And the jaw dropping surrender framing is worth examining too. What Charles has apparently agreed to is that Harry can run a business in America and be welcomed as family when he visits the UK. This is what every other member of every royal adjacent family does without comment. Peter Phillips runs commercial interests. Zara Tindall has sponsorship deals. The York princesses have careers. None of them are described as having extracted jaw dropping surrenders from the institution by being allowed to earn a living. The special category applied to Harry and Meghan, in which normal human activities become capitulations and jaw dropping surrenders and lead balloons, requires you to believe the 2020 Sandringham Agreement was a legitimate and reasonable document rather than what multiple sources have described it as, an institution telling two people don't let the door hit you on the way out and then being surprised when the door did not hit them hard enough to prevent them building successful lives. Tom Sykes founded his Substack almost a year ago. His primary beat is the Sussex story. His confirmed source this week was the Wales camp. His argument today is that the British public wants Harry exiled forever. The British public this week was asking why Buckingham Palace cost five hundred and thirty million dollars and nobody is living in it. Tom Sykes was not writing about that. He was writing about Megxin. And his attack dog brief has never been clearer than it is today.