THE TRUTH THEY BURIED FOR YEARS JUST EXPLODED: Meghan’s Soho House “Connections” Were Never a Secret – And Harry’s “Shock” Is the Real ScandalLondon – Royal insiders and veteran paparazzi are struggling to contain their laughter tonight as yet another “bombshell” about Meghan Markle’s pre-Harry life at Soho House has supposedly left the Duke of Sussex reeling.
The story, breathlessly recycled by certain tabloids, claims that Meghan’s entirely legal, entirely public friendships with Soho House founder Nick Jones and a handful of high-profile members have “resurfaced” – as if they ever went anywhere.Sources who actually worked at Soho House during Meghan’s Toronto and London days are rolling their eyes so hard they risk permanent damage. “She was a working actress who liked the rooftop pool and the chicken milanese,” one former manager told us on condition of anonymity. “She wasn’t sneaking princes into private rooms or running some clandestine networking ring. She had a membership.
That’s literally it.”But according to the latest round of palace-adjacent “shock,” Prince Harry only just discovered that his wife – an internationally recognized actress who appeared on magazine covers, red carpets, and a little show called Suits – once socialized at the same private members’ club frequented by half of Hollywood and most of British media.
The idea that this comes as a thunderbolt to the man who wrote an entire memoir about his own drug use, army deployments, and family dysfunction has left even hardened royal reporters speechless.“Harry knew,” a long-time friend of the couple told this publication. “He met her through those same Soho House circles in 2016. The blind date was literally arranged by a mutual friend who was a member. This ‘stunned’ narrative is pure fiction.”
The timing of the “revelation” is raising eyebrows for reasons that have nothing to do with rooftop cocktails. With Harry’s memoir Spare still selling briskly in paperback and Meghan’s American Riviera Orchard brand finally shipping its first jars of strawberry jam to anxious lifestyle influencers, certain corners of Fleet Street appear desperate to keep the Sussexes in the scandal pages.
Veteran Soho House staff are particularly infuriated by the insinuation that Meghan used the club as some kind of elite escort service. “That’s not how any of this works,” one bartender who served the couple in 2017 told us. “Meghan tipped well, Harry drank ginger beer because he was in training, and they sat in the corner holding hands like any normal couple. If anything, members were more excited to see him than her.”
Perhaps the most telling detail: the “newly resurfaced claims” appear to originate from the same 2017 blind items that were debunked in real time, recycled through anonymous, and now gift-wrapped as fresh trauma for a prince who once froze his todger in the Arctic.
Royal commentator Omid Scobie, often described as pro-Sussex, went further on his podcast: “This is what happens when you have a press pack that spent years calling Meghan a yacht girl, then a social climber, then a bully, and now apparently a Soho House mastermind who somehow hid her entirely normal social life from a man who stalked her Instagram for months before their first date.”
Meanwhile, Soho House Global CEO Andrew Carnie issued a rare public statement: “Our members’ privacy is paramount. That said, attending parties at a members’ club is not and has never been scandalous behavior.”
As for Harry’s alleged devastation? Sources close to the Montecito household describe the duke as “bemused but unbothered,” reportedly telling friends, “If they’re reduced to digging up Soho House membership lists from 2015, we must be doing something right.”
The real question no one in Kensington Palace wants to answer: why is a prince who willingly detailed his own illegal drug use and Taliban kill count supposedly shattered that his wife once had brunch where celebrities congregate?Perhaps the only person truly stunned is anyone still pretending these tired stories contain an ounce of surprise.
For everyone else, it’s just another Thursday in the endless Sussex saga – same headlines, new clickbait, zero substance.The Soho House “scandal” isn’t back. It never left. And the only people shocked are those paid to pretend they are.
