Prince Harry and Meghan Markle warned 'future looks bleak' unless they do two things

A historian has sounded the alarm over the prospects of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as they strive to capitalize on their new ventures across the pond. On The Royals with Roya and Kate podcast earlier this month, historian Hugo Vickers discussed the couple's future as they unveil new projects like The Parents Network.

Hugo observed that Harry has taken a "brave step into an unknown world" warning that without continuous innovation to stay in the public eye, they risk fading into obscurity. He further suggested that their situation could "look rather bleak" more than four years after their departure from the UK at the dawn of 2020, just before the Covid-19 outbreak.

Chatting with The Times' Roya Nikkhah , Hugo remarked: "It's very difficult because he is part of an extraordinary institution and then suddenly he's cut free from that, he's gone off on his own, it's a brave step into an unknown world," reports the Express .

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"What worries me is that I think, whenever I see images of Range Rovers and things coming to the airport and security people that's jolly expensive and they've got to keep moving the whole time to finance this life and I've been to Montecito and that's pretty and lush and expensive too. They're relying to a large extent on 'Celebrity with a Royal connection.'

"Unless they keep coming up with new initiatives and new goods, they're going to disappear like so many other celebrities. Once that happens I think the future is going to look rather bleak."

Hugo's remarks came before Harry and Meghan had wrapped up their tour of Colombia. Post-tour, a local politician slammed the expenditure on security for the couple, which allegedly amounted to £1.5 million. Andres Escobar, a right-wing councilor in Cali, lambasted the decision to host the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, especially given the hefty security bill during tough economic times.

He stated: "The country [Colombia] paid almost two million US dollars for the security of this trip and there are many, many Colombians who are hungry and have a lack of basic needs. They invested this money because the vice president wanted to meet two high-profile public figures and brush aside criticism and problems that we have here through a corrupt government.

"We are in an economic crisis and eight billion pesos have been spent for the visit of Harry and Meghan, Colombian military planes and helicopters have been used and the money could have been better spent."

Escobar also criticized Vice President Francia Marquez, who confessed to inviting Harry and Meghan after being influenced by their Netflix documentary series.

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Mr Andres commented: "Can you believe that? How ridiculous, I can't believe she said that. This country could have used the money to invest in our own infrastructure, we are in a bad way and money is wasted for this."

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