Donald Trump’s latest comments about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are striking not because they reveal a new royal dispute, but because they take an old one and remove almost all restraint.

According to the Daily Mail, the US President has once again attacked the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, this time focusing heavily on what he sees as their treatment of Prince William and the wider Royal Family.

His position could hardly be clearer.

Trump said that if he were King Charles, he would not have welcomed Harry and Meghan back so easily. He described the couple as having done “too many horrible things” and showing “too much hate,” while saying that Charles’s willingness to meet them proves the King is “a much better person than I am.”

“I wouldn’t have done it,” Trump said. “I would have said forget it.”

That comment alone would have been enough to generate headlines. But Trump went further.

He also suggested that Meghan had exercised a deeply negative influence over Harry, calling her a “horrible influence” and saying what she had done to him was “unacceptable.”

Trump’s criticism was not limited to Meghan, however.

He specifically returned to Harry’s treatment of William and pointed to Harry’s book as evidence of a rupture he personally would have considered unforgivable.

“He wrote a book that was very terrible to William,” Trump said.

And then came perhaps his strongest statement.

“I would have never spoken to him again.”

That line effectively places Trump on William’s side of the family divide, at least rhetorically. The President is not merely criticizing Harry and Meghan as controversial former working royals. He is saying that, from his perspective, the damage done to the relationship between the brothers was serious enough to justify permanent estrangement.

That is important because Harry and Meghan have now returned to Britain after six years, bringing Archie and Lilibet with them and planning to remain for an “extended period.”

They are reportedly considering a home in the Cotswolds, while still keeping their Montecito residence in California and a separate property in Portugal.

So this is not simply a story about old grievances.

It is also about what happens when people who once dramatically left the royal system begin physically moving closer to it again.

Harry and Meghan reportedly informed King Charles last month about their plans to return. Archie, seven, and Lilibet, five, were said to be preparing to begin school in Britain.

From Trump’s point of view, Charles has responded with more generosity than he himself would have shown.

When GB News host Bev Turner suggested that the King appeared to have offered an olive branch to his son and daughter-in-law, Trump praised Charles instead of Harry.

“It shows you what a good man King Charles is,” he said.

Trump’s admiration for Charles is not new.

He described the King as “fantastic” and “amazing,” emphasizing that they have known each other for years and that he respected the monarch’s courage in continuing his public role while dealing with a difficult health situation.

Their relationship was also highlighted by Charles and Queen Camilla’s visit to the White House in April 2026, where Trump hosted them at the first state dinner of his second term.

The event included warm exchanges and jokes about the long, complicated history between Britain and America, including Charles’s remark that the dinner was a “very considerable improvement on the Boston Tea Party.”

That personal warmth helps explain why Trump’s comments about Harry and Meghan sound especially sharp.

He is not speaking as someone indifferent to the monarchy.

He clearly identifies with Charles and has repeatedly spoken positively about the late Queen Elizabeth II as well.

That makes his criticism of the Sussexes more personal in tone.

Trump has said he believed Harry and Meghan treated the Royal Family with “great disrespect,” and he has repeatedly focused on Meghan’s behavior toward both the late Queen and King Charles.

At the same time, the Sussexes’ return to Britain appears to have its own internal logic.

Harry’s friend Alex Rayner said Harry never stopped loving Britain. According to him, Harry “fell out of love with the circumstances he found himself living in,” not with the country itself.

Another source said Meghan also supports rebuilding Harry’s relationship with his English life and is “fully behind it.”

That is an important contrast.

Trump frames the return as something he is happy to see because the Sussexes are leaving America.

Their friends frame it as reconnection.

And the Palace appears to be treating it as something more complicated: a return that cannot simply erase the conflicts of the past.

Political dissatisfaction in the United States was also reportedly part of the broader context, particularly with the November midterm elections approaching and concerns about the direction of the country weighing on the couple.

Some conservative figures in America responded to the Sussexes’ move with mockery.

Katie Miller suggested they were moving because they did not like Trump, while Megyn Kelly joked that Americans had “done our time.”

All of that creates a strange new chapter.

Harry and Meghan are physically closer to the Royal Family again, but politically and emotionally, the old tensions remain alive.

Trump’s intervention only makes that more visible.

And perhaps the most revealing part of the story is that his strongest words were not actually about Meghan returning to Britain or even about Charles accepting them.

They were about William.

By saying he would have “never spoken to him again,” Trump has turned the royal brothers’ private estrangement into a public moral judgment.

Charles may be willing to leave the door open.

Trump clearly would not.

And that contrast may become one of the most uncomfortable parts of Harry and Meghan’s attempt to rebuild a life in Britain.