Meghan Markle And Prince Harry: Now Going Their Own Way

What the British press and social media royal followers are referring to is the legal and official separation several days ago of the house of Cambridge (Kate Middleton and Prince William) and the house of Sussex (Meghan and Harry), @sussexroyal, from the joint Royal Foundation they ran together.

But rift or feud, disagreement or bust-up, the point is that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have officially cut ties with the Royal Foundation to manage their own charitable interests separately from those of Kate and William.

The announcement of the split, which is the final step in the separation of the two royal households and of the two couples' public duties, followed a meeting last week between William and Harry and trustees of the Royal Foundation during which the last arrangements were finalized."It’s official: The Fab Four are no more," royal correspondent Tom Sykes declared in a column entitled "Kate and William and Harry and Meghan Just Got Divorced."

"Kate and William will continue to oversee the Royal Foundation, while Harry and Meghan will set up their own charitable endeavor," he explained.

The foundation of the senior couple will be renamed the Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

Sykes' recounting of the meeting during which the two brothers accompanied by their trustees agreed on the final touches of the "carefully negotiated agreement" to separate their philanthropic common efforts is telling: "As William and Kate made their way happily around the racecourse at Royal Ascot last Tuesday, smiling and cuddling up together and frankly looking closer than they have in years, it was hard to believe that, the following day, in the privacy of Kensington Palace, Harry and William would sit across the table from each other."

He ascribes the separation to "brotherly love lost."The Royal Foundation was originally created by the two princes in 2009 and then joined by Kate when she became the Duchess of Cambridge in 2011 and Meghan when she was made Duchess of Sussex in May, 2018.

The 'rupture' and the rumors circulating for months of problems between the two couples intensified in the spring when Harry and Meghan announced their decision to move out of Kensington Palace, where they were neighbors with William and Kate, to set up their own residence at Frogmore Cottage in Windsor.

The partition of the two households was announced last March by Buckingham Palace: "The Queen has agreed to the creation of a new Household for The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, following their marriage in May last year. The Household, which will be created with the support of The Queen and The Prince of Wales, will be established in the spring."