Prince Harry and Meghan Markle may still be “very much in love,” but a revealing assessment from a royal insider has raised an uncomfortable question about whether love alone is enough when two people appear to want very different lives. According to Dan Wakeford, a cultural commentator and founder of the Celebrity Intelligence newsletter, the Sussexes were “wildly unhappy” with their life in America, and the deeper problem may be that Harry and Meghan have very different ideas about what should come next.

The claim is particularly striking because Wakeford is not describing a couple who have simply fallen out of love. In fact, he makes almost the opposite argument, saying his sources believe they remain deeply committed to one another while struggling with the direction of their lives.

That distinction could be the real bombshell.

The “Wildly Unhappy” Revelation Was Not About Their Marriage

Wakeford was discussing an earlier article in Celebrity Intelligence that described Harry and Meghan as “wildly unhappy,” but he was quick to explain what he meant.

“The ‘wildly unhappy’ came not from within their relationship in their life right now,” he said. “It was their life in America they were wildly unhappy about.”

He went on to explain that the couple were “wildly unhappy with how things had gone, and they hadn’t gone how they expected.”

That admission changes the story considerably because the problem, according to Wakeford, was not necessarily that Harry and Meghan stopped loving each other. Instead, they had apparently reached a point where the life they had created after leaving royal duties was not delivering what they expected.

“I don’t think they could find—think of a way out of that,” Wakeford said.

And now they have returned to Britain, creating another potential complication.

Harry May Be Happier Back In Britain — But What About Meghan?

Wakeford believes the move back to the United Kingdom has helped Harry become happier, but he does not believe the same can necessarily be said for Meghan.

That is where the insider sees the central conflict. “The problem with this couple is you have two people with completely different goals in life and geographical, like, homes,” he explained.

According to Wakeford, his sources and other reporting suggest the couple are “very much in love,” but their definition of happiness appears to be moving in different directions.

“They’re not on the same page with where they’re going in life, whether that’s living in England or living in America, whether that is philanthropy or a glamorous Hollywood lifestyle brand,” he said.

“And so doing that as a couple—they oppose each other, really, of what to their core, makes them happy and their reasons for being.”

That may be the most revealing part of the entire assessment.

The Sussexes do not necessarily have a problem because they want to separate. They may have a problem because they are trying to build one life while carrying two very different visions of what that life should look like.

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Meghan Wanted To Change The Royal Family

Wakeford also offered a striking assessment of Meghan’s early experience inside the monarchy, arguing that she did not fully understand the institution she was entering.

“I mean, from the moment Meghan entered into the royal family, it was obvious that she was naive to the understanding of the structure and what was expected from the royal family and felt that she could change that,” he said. “And that was incredibly frustrating for her.”

That frustration, according to Wakeford, is now part of a much bigger question about what Meghan wants from her life.

“Obviously it’s easier for her now that she’s not in the royal family,” he continued, “but to me, I don’t see their goals and their aspirations and what gives them their reasons to live individually don’t necessarily marry together, to result in a happy and easy life.”

It is a remarkable conclusion because Harry and Meghan have already tried one dramatic reinvention, leaving royal life and building a new existence in America. Now they have returned to Britain, at least for an extended period, while their children are attending school there.

But if Harry feels more fulfilled by being close to Britain and his royal roots while Meghan remains drawn toward California, Hollywood and her own commercial ambitions, the couple could find themselves facing the same fundamental question all over again: What does their future actually look like?

Love May Not Be The Problem — Their Dreams Could Be

Tom Sykes, host of The Royalist, made the point that being deeply in love does not necessarily guarantee that a relationship will work.

“I think we’ve all seen plenty of people who are madly in love and carried away with the whole thing who can’t make it work as a relationship, because the relationship is a very different kind of thing,” Sykes said.

Wakeford agreed, saying their conflicting goals make it difficult for them to “power forward and be on the same page.”

That may be the real bombshell hanging over Harry and Meghan.

They could be deeply in love. They could remain committed to their family. They could genuinely want the same relationship to succeed.

And yet they may still be wrestling with two completely different visions of happiness.

For Harry, Britain may represent something he spent years trying to escape but now appears to be rediscovering. For Meghan, California may represent the freedom, Hollywood connections and lifestyle she built after leaving the monarchy.

That leaves the Sussexes facing an extraordinary contradiction: they may agree on each other while disagreeing about the life they want to live.

And if that is truly the friction underneath their current situation, moving countries may have solved one problem while creating an entirely different one.