At the end of July 2018 Harry and Meghan stayed for a week with Charles and Camilla at the Castle of Mey, the Queen Mother’s former home in Caithness.
The visit was used to brief the media that Charles had become attached to Meghan and admired her interest in history and furniture. Unspoken was Charles’s bewilderment about the American. He had never really understood her or what she wanted. That week, his irritation about Thomas Markle’s TV appearances, especially his criticism of the royal family, came to a head. “Can’t she just go and see him and make this stop?” Charles “berated” Harry.
Charles could not understand Harry’s “explanations”. Harry did not tell his father about Thomas’s fury at being ignored by his daughter. Instead,
