According to royal historian Hugo Vickers, Prince Harry is “incredibly unhappy” with his marriage to Meghan Markle.

Harry is trapped in California, according to the biographer, “away from his family, friends, work, and the Army, all the things he had known.”

“If you unwind it all you see an ambitious young woman who was a minor star, an actress who could dazzle him [Harry], and that’s exactly what she did,” Hugo told the Daily Express ahead of his appearance at the online Raworths Harrogate Literature Festival.

“He, no doubt, thought he had found himself a very exotic and glamorous wife out of the norm. Actresses can be very beguiling. Unfortunately, he finds himself now living in California, away from his family, friends, his work, and the Army, and all the things he had known.

“He looks incredibly unhappy and has been hooked by a political activist as far as I can see.”

He went on to say that Prince Harry is “spouting all this rubbish which comes from her” and that “he may think he believes it, but he really doesn’t.”

Adding: “When Meghan said, ‘they are getting at me’, as a small boy he felt people were getting at his mother and he was too young to protect her.

“So when this girl says she needed protection he jumped to her side. But she’s not a victim at all. Now you have a situation where Netflix has basically bought a member of the Royal Family and that’s very unattractive.”

Mr Vicker’s theatrical recommendations have been made Following an astrologer’s warning that Meghan Markle might “take Harry to the cleaners.”

The same astrologer predicted in February 2019 that a “virus” would “disrupt the world” starting on January 10 — the first fatality related to COVID-19 — although she may have been fortunate.

Hugo will be watching Netflix’s The Crown with his “pen poised,” adding, “I have written a whole book called The Crown Dissected, in which I forensically take it apart episode by episode. It is beautifully filmed, well-acted, well-written, but it’s fundamentally dishonest. People are taken in by it.”

The royal couple has opted to remain in America rather than spend Christmas at Sandringham with the rest of the royal family, although under quite different circumstances.

In 2019, the couple chose to spend Thanksgiving with Doria Ragland, the former actress’ mother, and then spend the Christmas holidays in Canada with their son Archie for some much-needed time apart.