Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has claimed he was requested by Buckingham Palace to influence Prince Harry to not give up royal life or go away the UK shortly earlier than the Sussexes moved to North America. In Mr Johnson’s new e book, ‘Unleashed’, which shall be launched on 10 October, the 60-year-old claimed that he delivered a “manly pep speak” to the Duke of Sussex in a bid to persuade him it will be a mistake to go away Britain. He mentioned that officers in Downing Street and Buckingham Palace approached him in January 2020, believing that he would possibly have the ability to dissuade Prince Harry of his choice.
It was “a ridiculous enterprise … after they made me attempt to persuade Harry to remain. Kind of manly pep speak. Totally hopeless,” Mr Johnson wrote within the e book, per the BBC.
Notably, the assembly between Mr Johnson and Prince Harry came about on the margins of a UK-Africa funding summit in London Docklands. It got here simply hours after Prince Harry introduced with “nice disappointment” that he and Meghan Markle felt they’d “no different possibility” however to step away from royal life. During the next assembly, the 2 males met for 20 minutes with out aides as Mr Johnson tried to influence the prince to rethink.
However, the next day, the duke flew to Canada to be reunited with Meghan Markle and their younger son, Archie. The household later moved to Montecito, California, the place they continue to be right now, having given up their lives as working royals.
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According to the BBC, Mr Johnson, in his effort to maintain the prince from departing, had hailed him as a helpful asset to the UK and praised his work, such because the Invictus Games for navy veterans.
Meanwhile, the previous UK PM has beforehand mentioned that the memoir shall be his “private account of the massive realignment that came about in UK politics within the final 15 years”, taking in his management of the Brexit marketing campaign that severed Britain’s ties with the EU, in addition to his administration of the Covid pandemic and the next scandals that rocked his authorities till his downfall as PM in September 2022.