LONDON – In an unprecedented escalation that could force the Duke and Duchess of Sussex into the most humiliating public audit in royal history, senior Westminster sources and former palace insiders are demanding that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle be barred from any UK taxpayer-paid security — and potentially stripped of their children’s places in the line of succession — until they produce irrefutable medical proof that Archie and Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor were carried and delivered by Meghan herself.The explosive claims — dismissed for years as “fringe conspiracy theories” by the Sussex camp — have been reignited by three separate former Kensington Palace staffers and one highly-placed obstetric source who treated members of the royal family, all speaking on condition of anonymity because of NDAs and fear of legal reprisal.
“Everyone inside the palace medical wing knew within days,” one ex-courtier told this publication. “There is simply no record — zero — of the Duchess of Sussex ever attending a single obstetric appointment at the Portland Hospital, St Mary’s Paddington, or the Lindo Wing where every modern royal birth has taken place. Not one.
Yet we were told she delivered Archie ‘naturally’ at the Portland on 6 May 2019. It doesn’t add up.”The whistleblowers point to a litany of inconsistencies that they say “cannot be explained away by privacy”:
- No royal gynaecologist was ever formally assigned to the Duchess of Sussex, unlike Catherine, Princess of Wales, whose pregnancy care team was publicly named months in advance.
- The birth of Archie was announced a full 48 hours after the alleged delivery — the longest delay in modern royal history — with no photographs of Meghan leaving hospital, no traditional steps photocall, and no named doctors.
- Lilibet’s birth certificate, filed in California, lists the mother as “Rachel Meghan Markle” (her pre-marriage legal name) and the place of birth as Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, yet multiple nurses on duty that week have privately told friends they have no recollection of the Duchess ever being admitted.
- Meghan was photographed hiking in Los Angeles and attending a New York baby shower just days before Archie’s alleged due date, showing no visible signs of late-stage pregnancy.
“These aren’t moon-bump theories,” a second former palace protection officer insisted. “This is about hard medical records that simply do not exist. If the children were born via gestational surrogate — which is what multiple sources now swear happened — then under the current interpretation of the Succession to the Crown Act and the British Nationality Act, they are not eligible to sit in the line of succession at all.”The legal time-bomb is real. While surrogacy itself is not illegal in the UK, intended parents using a surrogate must apply for a Parental Order within six months of birth to become the legal parents. No such order has ever been registered at the Family Division of the High Court for either child — a public document that would be easily searchable if it existed.Parliamentary fury is mounting. Last night, veteran Tory MP Andrew Bridgen tabled an Early Day Motion signed by 27 colleagues demanding that “until the Duke and Duchess of Sussex provide full birth certificates, maternity records, and DNA confirmation of maternity, no public funds whatsoever be expended on their security when on British soil.”“If these children were carried by a surrogate, the British public has been deliberately misled for six years,” Bridgen thundered.
“We have paid millions for IPP status security for a family whose very eligibility for royal titles may be fraudulent. The King must demand proof — or Parliament will.”Even moderate voices are breaking cover. One senior Home Office source involved in RAVEC (the committee that decides royal protection) told us: “We have been asking quietly for years for basic documentation to justify the multi-million-pound annual cost. Every time we are stonewalled with ‘privacy concerns’. That excuse is wearing very thin when the British taxpayer is footing the bill.”
The Sussexes’ team last night issued a furious denial, calling the claims “disgusting, defamatory and racist tropes recycled by the same tabloid sewer that hounded Diana.” They insist both children were “carried and birthed” by Meghan and threaten legal action against anyone repeating the allegations.
But royal author Lady Colin Campbell, who first raised the surrogacy question in 2020, went further on GB News last night: “I have spoken to two separate individuals who were present at the signing of the surrogacy contracts in California. The children are biologically Harry’s, but not Meghan’s eggs and certainly not carried by her.
That is the truth the palace has buried to avoid a constitutional crisis.”As King Charles faces mounting pressure to intervene — with some courtiers privately urging him to request sight of the children’s original long-form birth certificates and hospital records before any UK visit is approved — one thing is brutally clear:Until Harry and Meghan open the medical files, the £100 million question hanging over the House of Windsor will not go away.
Are Archie and Lilibet truly the grandchildren of the King — or the most expensive royal deception in history?Buckingham Palace, Clarence House, and Archewell all declined to comment when approached. But for the British taxpayer, the clock is now ticking.
