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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have launched a brand new website titled Sussex.com, with an expert revealing that the new site would have likely "gone down terribly" at Buckingham Palace.
The couple's new website was launched overnight and followed on from the launch of their SussexRoyal.com website a few years ago in 2020. Their first website came ahead of their departure from both the Royal Family and the United Kingdom.
And now, amid the backlash the Sussexes have received for their new site, Royal commentator Michael Cole has said that it would have likely "gone down terribly badly at Buckingham Palace".
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An expert has weighed in on what the Palace might think of Harry and Meghan's new website (PA Wire/PA Images)Speaking to TalkTV hosts Kevin O’Sullivan and Alex Phillips on CrossTalk today, Mr Cole spoke about the new website when he said: "This will have gone down terribly badly at Buckingham Palace. We’re not quite sure how they intend to use this new website but it will be watched very very closely because any attempt to use it for commercial purposes will be frowned upon certainly in this country. It’s certainly just not on and it’s not what you do.
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"I think it’s another example of them being slightly tin-eared. If they want to build bridges, this is possibly the worst possible way they could do it, and it won’t go down well."
Elsewhere on the show, he said: "The first thing to be said about this is that it is illegal to use a royal title or the name of a royal residence for commercial purposes," he began.
Mr Cole added: "Now we will remember that when the Duke and Duchess of Sussex scooted off, first of all to Canada and then California which was their intended destination all the time, perhaps Meghan’s, it was made clear that they would retain the honorific titles Her Royal Highness, His Royal Highness - these three letters that are very big in royal circles but they were not to use them for any purpose."
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