DONALD Trump’s son has described Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as “spoiled apples” and offered to “send them back” to Britain.
In a new interview with GB News, as his father continues his bid for re-election in the 2024 presidential race, Eric Trump shared his candid thoughts on the royal couple.
Eric said that his father was a strong ally of the UK and whilst he was keen to praise the monarchy, he described Harry and Meghan as ‘on a little bit of an island of their own’.
He explained: “There will be no better ally in the United Kingdom than Donald Trump, I truly mean that.
“He loves this nation, he loves this country…he’s going to be the greatest president for the West the UK’s ever seen.”
The Trump family, he added, have long-standing relationships with members of the royal family.
But Donald Trump has been an outspoken critic of the Duke and Duchess since their split from the monarchy and move to the US in 2020.
He has previously confessed he is “not a fan” of Meghan and claimed that she was “very disrespectful” to the royal family and Queen Elizabeth II.
Asked whether his father would be in favour of making Prince Harry’s visa documentation public if he were president, Eric said he didn’t want to be drawn on the matter.
But despite this, he had a critical assessment of the Sussex couple in general.
Eric revealed: “What I can tell you is my father had so much respect for the Queen, as did I.
“My mum [the late Ivana Trump] knew so many of them for years, I think you probably know that, had a great relationship with Diana and everyone else.
“You know, that’s a very sacred institution and you can happily have those two back.
“We’ll happily send them back from America, you can have them back over here, but I’m not sure you guys want them any more than we might not want them anymore.
The first hints of friction reportedly came after William was introduced to Meghan when she was staying at Kensington Palace.
Once she’d returned home to Canada, William and Harry sat down for a brother-to-brother chat.
He knew Harry was already head-over-heels for her but it has been claimed he advised him to take it slowly.
The younger prince reportedly didn’t take too kindly to the advice, with one royal source saying he “went mental”.
Then in June 2019 Harry and Meghan officially split off from the charity they shared with William and Kate.
The Royal Foundation will be divided between the Sussexes and Cambridges as the couples focus on their own separate charitable endeavours.
Prince William and Prince Harry first established the Royal Foundation in 2009 before Kate joined two years later shortly after their engagement was announced.
The trio would often appear together at events and the Foundation had huge successes with projects like the Invictus Games for injured veterans and the mental health Heads Together campaign.
The Royal Foundation said the decision was made following the conclusion of a review into its structure – but added both couples will continue to work together in the future.
Harry and Meg were living in close proximity to Kate and Wills within the Kensington Palace estate, but they switched to Frogmore Cottage in Windsor before baby Archie was born.
The move further increased rumours of a fallout.
Harry also hinted in his ITV documentary “Harry and Meghan, An African Journey” that he and his brother had grown apart.
In 2021, Harry and Meghan give their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey where Harry accused his dad of cutting him off financially.
Harry then jetted back to UK to join William in unveiling a statue to their mother Princess Diana in the grounds of Kensington Palace. But sources claimed William didn’t want to attend the memorial amid their ongoing rift.
In 2022, just before their grandmother the Queen died, sources claimed Kate acts as a “peacemaker” between the brothers.
Harry claimed his brother “knocked him to the floor” during an argument about Meghan, in his memoir.
In Spare, Harry said William branded Meghan “rude” and “difficult” during a row.
Harry alleged William “grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and … knocked me to the floor”.
He said he was left with a visible injury to his back following the argument in 2019 at Nottingham Cottage on the grounds of Kensington Palace, where he was living at the time.
In January this year, Harry flew in to be with Charles after the monarch’s shock cancer diagnosis.
Harry flew back to the US the following day – without seeing Wills.
In May he visited the UK for a three-day visit without seeing King Charles or Prince William.
“They feel like they’re on a little bit of an island of their own.
“But listen, you can always have bad actors in anything, you can always have spoiled apples in every orchard, but the institution of the royal family is beautiful and it’s something that is actually admired by a lot of Americans.”
PRINCE Harry and Meghan Markle have lived in their luxury Montecito mansion since they splashed out £11.93m on it in June 2020.
The sprawling nine-bed, 16-bath home in Santa Barbara sits on 5.4 acres of land and features a library, office, spa, gym, game room, wine cellar and five-car garage, it’s believed.
The estate also boasts sweeping lawns, tiered rose gardens, tall Italian cypress trees, blooming lavender, olive trees, a tennis court, tea house, children’s cottage and a pool.
The couple have treated fans to glimpses of their multiple living spaces on several occasions – showing off a minimalist vibe.
It is said to have more than doubled in value since the former royals bought it.
In 2020, ahead of the presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, Harry and Meghan faced criticism after they recorded a video message encouraging voter registration.
Though they did not express any partisan bias at the time, Meghan claimed that the election was “the most important of our lifetime.”
Ahead of the 2024 election, speculation has grown as to whether Meghan and Harry will cross into partisan territory and endorse the Democratic Party‘s presumptive nominee, Kamala Harris.
Meghan previously praised the representation Kamala Harris brings to politics and prior to becoming vice president in 2020, whilst Kamala posted supportive social media messages about the Duchess.
