Angela Levin has shared her thoughts on the rebranding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's website, as the couple have broken cover since the controversial site went live.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have made their first joint public appearance since the rebrand in Canada, to mark the start of the countdown to next year's Invictus Games.
The royal couple spent time at the ski slopes in Whistler, British Columbia, as they met with athletes at the training camp for the Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025.
Their appearance follows a controversial new website, Sussex.com, which replaces their former platform Archewell.
Angela Levin says Harry and Meghan want a 'woke' Royal Family
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Harry and Meghan are prominent on the website's homepage alongside their royal crest and titles. Featured on the website are biography pages for the Duke and Duchess.
The Duke is lauded as a "New York Times Bestselling author" for his memoir Spare, praising his "compassion, vulnerability, and unflinching honesty".
Meghan's bio calls her a "champion of human rights and gender equity" and briefly mentions her past Hollywood career.
Discussing the website with Royal Biographer Angela Levin, host Nana Akua said the rebrand was "full of exaggeration and pomposity", and a "spiteful attack on the real royals who must do something".
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have visited ski slopes in Canada following the rebrand
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Angela Levin said of Harry and Meghan: "I think their ploy, which has been going quietly perhaps undercover most of the time since they left the Royal Family, was to produce a different sort of modern, woke, trendy Royal Family wherever they are.
"At the moment, it's in America. So that's where they're trying to do it."
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Levin fumed: "And the absolute cheek take to take the coat of arms. And it's just Meghan, it's not Harry. And then to put that at the top of their website."
Nana responded: "They would argue that Sussex is their name and their family name, so them using that is fair enough. But I agree, how do they justify using the royal crest?"
Angela Levin says Harry and Meghan had the 'absolute cheek' to use the royal crest
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When asked by Nana why the Duke and Duchess have gone down the route of using the crest in the rebrand, Levin said it was an "evil" thing for them to do.
She added: "They wanted to use all these things when they first wanted to leave the UK and Queen Elizabeth, now passed away, said they can't use the Royal Family's name from to make money and now they're smirking and they think they can.
"What's awful is that they've picked a time where King Charles is unwell and William is facing looking after his wife and his children. They did the same thing with the late Duke of Edinburgh.
"And although he was dying in hospital, not to say that King Charles is dying whatsoever, but they went on Oprah Winfrey's show, and they made the Royal Family even more upset than what they were before."