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The ink is barely dry on the magnificent "Megxit" agreement finalized last week that ends effectivelyPrince Harry andMeghan Makle's Roles like senior "Royals working". But already, the initiates open on the emotional collateral damage left behind the walls of the palace following the contentious negotiations. And the family member is the most upset by the last rock crisis the Windsor house isPrince Charles, the very person who gave Meghan the nickname of "tungsten" after the almost indestructible metal. According toDaily mailIn 2018, the prince of Wales gave the moniker to the duchess still recently struck as "a mandate of attachment" because it was so "strong and imposing" against the fiasco involving his father,Thomas MarkleAnd the paparazzi in the days leading to his wedding.

Ironically, it was the same decision that led to the shocking decision of Harry and Meghan to join royal life. "He feels very dropped," said a Charles insider. "It will take a lot of time to repair his relationship with the duke and the duchess."

"The Prince of Wales did everything he could please [Harry and Meghan] and they repaid it by taking a toboggan hammer with little of what their actions could affect the monarchy", added the source. "The trust that was once he left."

While Charles has always had a little somewhatcomplicated relationship with Harry andPrince Williamhe was the firstMember of the royal family To accommodate Meghan in the fold when she started getting out of her youngest son in 2016. "Charles was Meghan's biggest champion," said the initiate. In January of last year, I reportedCharles had "a great affection" for his daughter-in-law And he quickly came to consider his daughter "The girl he had never had."

His paternal link with Meghan was clearly evident at the royal wedding where CharlesPassed at the last moment To escort his new daughter-in-law halfway on the aisle when his own father decided to bow to the procedure when he was revealed, he had worked with the paparazzi to stage embarrassing photographs. Charles proudly posted a black and white photo of the wedding in the public area of ​​his house, Clarence House.

It is the grace of Meghans under pressure and the ability to stay calm and to continue facing such difficult situation that has earned him the nickname of Charles' tungsten ". Shortly after the wedding, a source told theDaily mail, "Prince Charles Admire Meghan for his strength and the spine she gives Harry, who needs a tungsten type silhouette in his life because it can be a little oozed."

Fast Fast 20 months and the Royal Nickname of Meghan took a new meaning among the palace insiders who were aware of the negotiations "Megxit". With the profit of the decline, an initiate said that Meghan's "fault the fault" to move away from what she described as theEnvironment "Toxic" surrounding the royal family and its growing dissatisfaction with theConstraints of royal life This resulted in the abrupt end of the royal quarries of the sussexes.

"Yes, Prince Harry had talked aboutHis desire for a different kind of life Over the years, but it really felt like a couple, he and Meghan could find a way forward to sculpt aNew royal role for themselves. I do not think he ever considered to move away from all that once he married because He and Meghan had been so successful in representing the Crown as a team, "said my source." Harry is impulsively, butMeghan is strategic. The team responsible for the newWebsite Sussex Royal were the same types of creators who designed the former Meghan website, the TIG. His tone and content, who said the couple would be "collaborating" with the queen, came clearly from her. Without his influence, Harry would never have done anything like that. "

According to my source, "Meghan said Harry on theirChristmas vacation In Canada that "it does not work for me". She was clear she did not want to go back to the way things were, so Harry was forced to choose - and he chose to make his wife happy with his terms. The strong force of Meghan, inflexible that the Prince of Wales once admired had been attacked against him. "

Earlier this week, before Harry leaves the U.K. To meet with Meghan and his son of eight months, Archie, after a separation of nearly two weeks, he gave a depthpersonal speech At a private dinner in London forSentebale, the charity of young people with HIV / AIDS, he co-founded inPrincess diana honor. He shocked the silence participants when he told them: "It brings me a great sadness that he came to that. The decision I made for my wife and that I have to go back is not a single That I made lightly. And I know I did not do anything. T always threw well, but as far as it goes, there was really no other option. "

"Everyone in the family, including the Duke of Sussex itself, is quoted by the way everything turned out", said my source. "The only person who is really happy is Meghan. Sheseems delighted to be returned in his pre-royal life in Canada, but with her husband and son, a much higher profile and potentially a veryfuture future future of her. "

The initiate added: "While the queen finally prevailed and did not adhere to the wishes of Harry and Meghan for a" half-in, half-out "career, managed to reach something that d Other unhappy women after getting married in the family not. It's his decision to leave royal life in one way or another and she fully supports her husband. She has not been banished as Diana WhereSarah Ferguson. Meghan turned out to be an opponent of steel and formidable, indeed. "

Diane Clehane is a journalist and author of New YorkImagine Diana andDiana: the secrets of his style.