PRINCE Harry and Meghan Markle are about to enter a new era of visibility, a pal of the couple has said.
Omid Scobie revealed that the “thriving” couple are “really excited” about the busy schedule ahead following the end of their parental leave.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcomed their second child Lillibet Diana in June.
Scobie, the preferred reporter of the Sussexes – who co-authored their biography Finding Freedom – confirmed the pair will return to public life after “keeping toxicity away”.
“They’re a couple who do very well in those moments of human interaction. They need to be on the ground,” Scobie told PEOPLE.
“They say that the proof is in the pudding, and what we are about to see is that pudding.”
Although one of the main reasons for leaving the Royal Famly was to get some privacy and to get away from the prying eyes of the public, Meghan and Harry are jumping back into it – just one year later.
“They seem to be existing in a different place, and that place is much healthier,” Scobie told PEOPLE.
“Meghan famously spoke about that it was not enough to survive — we are now in the thrive chapter.”
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Since stepping back as senior members of the Royal Family, Prince Harry and Meghan have reportedly signed a number of multimillion-dollar streaming and publishing deals.
Last month, a royal insider slammed the couple’s demand for privacy as “farcical”.
Royal expert Phil Dampier said the couple’s demands for privacy while at the same time promoting projects revealing intimate information about their lives were “ludicrous”.
He told The Celeb Report Online: “It is one of the great ironies of Harry and Meghan’s departure that they said one of the reasons they wanted to go was to have some privacy and get away from the prying eyes of the press and public, and seemingly since then they’ve done nothing but put themselves in the public eye.
“It’s just reaching farcical proportions.
“They said they didn’t cooperate with Finding Freedom, the book that Omid Scobie wrote, and then later on it emerged that they had had some input into it.”
It comes after Harry announced that he would be releasing a memoir – timed for the release in the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee year.
Harry delivered the announcement on the first day in 15 months that Clarence House announced Charles and Camilla were on a public engagement.
A spokesman for Harry said he told his family including the Queen about the book only “very recently”.
Well-placed sources said Buckingham Palace officials had been unaware of the book.
