The world is now seeing the "real Prince Harry" and Meghan Markle is not "the only one to blame" for the rift between the couple and the rest of the Royal Family, according to Michael Gove's wife.
Columnist Sarah Vine said the Duke of Sussex's comments during The Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard podcast show he is "just as complicit" for the attacks on the royals.
Harry, 36, revealed he had wanted to quit the Firm in his 20s and said "look what it did to my mum", as well as suggesting he'd inherited his parents' pain.
The Duke also implied dad Charles’ parenting left him with “genetic pain and suffering”.
In her Mail on Sunday column, Ms Vine, who is married to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, said while Harry is different since he met his wife, he hasn't been "brainwashed" by Meghan.
Instead, he is "just starting to be himself".
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She added: "I don't think she [Meghan] is the only one to blame. I believe Harry is just as complicit. It's only that we've never really wanted to accept it because in our minds he is still that tragic young boy at his mother's funeral.
"But that Harry is gone now and the man we see before us is a very different kettle of fish. Far from being brainwashed by Meghan, I think he's just starting to be himself."
In the bombshell podcast released last week, Harry reflected on how he wished to break the cycle for his own children.
He did, however, say "there is no blame", and the finger should not be pointed at anybody.
He said: "I don’t think we should be pointing the finger or blaming anybody, but certainly when it comes to parenting, if I’ve experienced some form of pain or suffering because of the pain or suffering that perhaps my father or my parents had suffered, I’m going to make sure I break that cycle so that I don’t pass it on, basically.
“It’s a lot of genetic pain and suffering that gets passed on anyway so we as parents should be doing the most we can to try and say ‘you know what, that happened to me, I’m going to make sure that doesn’t happen to you’.”
Ms Vine said he has clearly "harboured deep resentment" for his father and the family for the "unfair way" he feels Diana was treated.
She added that while we've "seen glimpses of that before" he has "finally spelled it out", having married someone who he probably knew "would never take to public life in Britain" and who could "provide him with the perfect excuse to leave".
