‘I was not a fan’: Trump ‘happy’ Harry and Meghan left US, says royal family shouldn’t take them back

President Donald Trump expressed approval of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's departure from the US, criticising Meghan as disrespectful to Queen Elizabeth II.

The couple returned to Britain after six years in the US, during which they stepped down as working royals and publicised grievances against the royal family.

Their return has sparked speculation about their plans, with reports of settling in Britain but retaining homes in California and Portugal amidst public unpopularity.

WASHINGTON, Sept 3 — President Donald Trump said yesterday he was glad Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle had left the United States — while adding that if he were part of the British royal family, he would not have taken them back.

Trump accused Meghan, 45, of being “terribly disrespectful” to the late Queen Elizabeth II, in his first reaction since the prince and his American wife moved back to Britain from California.

The A-list celebrity couple is now settling in back in Harry’s homeland, six years after they stepped down as working royals and left for the United States amid bitter acrimony with his family.

“I’m happy about it. I was not a fan,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked what he thought about Harry and Meghan’s departure.

“I thought they treated the royal family with great disrespect. I didn’t like it. I didn’t like the way she acted. I thought she was terribly disrespectful to the Queen, to King Charles.”

Harry, 41, appeared to have mended relations with his father, King Charles III, who is battling cancer, during more recent UK visits.

Harry reportedly remains estranged from Prince William, his brother and heir to the throne, and William’s wife Catherine.

Trump said he wouldn’t have been so forgiving.

“Maybe I’m different. I wouldn’t have taken him back, right? If I were the royal family, I would not have taken them back,” said Trump.

The 80-year-old former reality TV star has previously traded barbs with Meghan on a number of occasions.

On the eve of a state visit to Britain in 2019 during his first term, Trump denied that he had called Meghan “nasty,” despite the comment being clearly audible on a tape of an interview with a tabloid.

She had in turn been critical of Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, calling him “misogynistic” and “divisive.”

Trump again seemed stung when Meghan commented ahead of the 2020 election, which he lost, saying he was “not a fan” and adding: “I wish a lot of luck to Harry, because he’s going to need it.”

The royal couple’s return to Britain along with their children Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5, marked the end of a long exile from Harry’s homeland.

The pair married in a glitzy wedding in 2018 but two years later relinquished their role as working royals after a feud with the British royals and moved to North America.

The rift then deepened as Harry published his tell-all memoir Spare and the couple gave a no-holds-barred interview to US talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey.

Meghan, who is mixed-race, and Harry insinuated to Winfrey that the monarchy was racist, claiming a family member raised a question about the skin colour of their son before he was born.

Meghan also said she had contemplated suicide after joining the royal family.

But while the couple signed a string of commercial deals with US platforms like Netflix and Spotify, reports said their attempts to make a living in the United States had fallen flat.

Their return to Britain has raised a number of questions.

The Telegraph newspaper reported that the couple plan to stay for “an extended period,” living in a home in the Cotswolds region, in central England, having enrolled their children at a school for the coming academic year.

But with speculation rampant around their reasons for returning and whether the stay is permanent, reports have noted the couple intend to keep their existing homes in California and Portugal.

Meghan faces a particularly tough challenge in reassimilating to life in Britain, where she remains unpopular. Polling shows a majority of people hold unfavourable views of her and, to a lesser extent, Harry. — AFP

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这对夫妇在美国生活了六年之后返回英国。在此期间，他们辞去了王室职务，并公开表达了对王室的不满。

他们的回归引发了人们对他们未来计划的猜测，有报道称他们将在英国定居，但尽管受到公众的反对，他们仍保留了在加利福尼亚州和葡萄牙的住所。

华盛顿，9 月 3 日——唐纳德·特朗普总统昨天表示，他很高兴哈里王子和他的妻子梅根·马克尔离开了美国——同时补充说，如果他是英国王室成员，他不会让他们回去。

特朗普指责 45 岁的梅根对已故女王伊丽莎白二世“极其不尊重”，这是自王子和他的美国妻子从加利福尼亚搬回英国以来，特朗普的首次回应。

这对一线明星夫妇如今已回到哈里王子的故乡定居。六年前，他们卸任王室职务，与哈里王子的家人关系破裂，随后前往美国。

“我对此感到高兴。我以前并不喜欢他们，”特朗普在椭圆形办公室被问及对哈里和梅根离开的看法时告诉记者。

“我认为他们对待王室非常不尊重。我不喜欢这样。我不喜欢她的行为方式。我认为她对女王和查尔斯国王都非常不尊重。”

41岁的哈里王子在最近几次访问英国期间，似乎已经修复了与身患癌症的父亲查尔斯三世国王的关系。

据报道，哈里王子与他的哥哥、王位继承人威廉王子以及威廉王子的妻子凯特仍然关系疏远。

特朗普说他不会如此宽容。

“也许我不一样。我不会让他回去，对吧？如果我是皇室成员，我也不会让他们回去，”特朗普说。

这位 80 岁的前真人秀明星此前曾多次与梅根隔空交锋。

2019 年，在他第一任期内，即将对英国进行国事访问之际，特朗普否认他曾称梅根“令人讨厌”，尽管在一段小报采访录音中，这一言论清晰可闻。

在 2016 年总统竞选期间，她曾批评特朗普，称他“厌女”且“分裂”。

特朗普似乎再次被梅根在2020年大选前的评论激怒了，当时他输掉了那次选举，梅根说他“不是她的粉丝”，并补充说：“我祝哈里好运，因为他会需要好运的。”

这对皇室夫妇带着他们的孩子——7岁的阿奇王子和5岁的莉莉贝特公主——返回英国，标志着哈里王子结束了长期的流亡生涯。

这对夫妇于 2018 年举行了一场盛大的婚礼，但两年后，由于与英国王室发生不和，他们放弃了王室成员的身份，并移居北美。

随后，哈里出版了揭露内幕的回忆录《Spare》，这对夫妇还接受了美国脱口秀主持人奥普拉·温弗瑞的无所不谈的采访，导致两人关系进一步恶化。

梅根是混血儿，她和哈里向奥普拉·温弗瑞暗示王室是种族主义的，声称在他们的儿子出生前，有一位家庭成员曾质疑过儿子的肤色。

梅根还表示，加入王室后，她曾有过自杀的念头。

但有报道称，尽管这对夫妇与 Netflix 和 Spotify 等美国平台签署了一系列商业协议，但他们在美国谋生的尝试却以失败告终。

他们返回英国引发了一系列问题。

《每日电讯报》报道称，这对夫妇计划在英格兰中部科茨沃尔德地区的一处住宅“长期居住”，他们的孩子已在下一学年入学。

但外界对他们返回的原因以及是否会永久居住的猜测甚嚣尘上，有报道指出，这对夫妇打算保留他们在加利福尼亚州和葡萄牙的现有住所。

梅根在重新融入英国生活方面面临着尤为严峻的挑战，她在英国仍然不受欢迎。民调显示，大多数人对她持负面看法，对哈里王子也有一定程度的负面看法。——法新社

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