ARTHUR EDWARDS Doubters thought Megxit would be end of royal family, but 5 years on they’re stronger than ever despite Harry’s barbs
Megxit, as we called it, sent shockwaves through The Firm and caused no end of trouble for the royals who remained.
At the time, commentators even questioned whether the Royal Family could survive if Harry and Meghan, the two most modern and forward-looking members, had decided to call it a day.
But, remarkably, five years on, I believe the Royal Family is stronger now than when the Duke and Duchess of Sussex quit.
The people have great affinity with the new King and with Kate and William as well as Queen Camilla
Crowd went crazy
I have seen the evidence of this remarkable transformation when I travelled with Charles to places such as Bolton and Milton Keynes, where crowds that were once in the hundreds are now in the thousands.
When I went to Australia to cover the King and Queen’s visit last October, I witnessed the Royal Family’s bounce-back from the events of the past five years.
Huge crowds greeted the royal couple in Sydney and Canberra.
Many of those people had got there at five in the morning after travelling up to 300 miles to see Charles and Camilla.
That’s how much the modern Royal Family are loved in a country that has for decades loosely flirted with becoming a Republic.
And on Christmas Day at Sandringham, Catherine was sparkling, full of life, smiling as the weight of her illness has come off her shoulders.
The front page picture I took of her that day is now the screensaver on my computer.
I look at it and remember how the crowd just went crazy.