Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are said to be reeling after a Vanity Fair feature containing several damning allegations about their lives in America was published on Jan. 17.

Some of the accusations in the piece included how Meghan allegedly mistreats her staff and that the pair’s Montecito neighbors aren’t fans of them. The publication also spoke to a source who after Harry’s book Spare was published, asked the duke privately if he had heard from his family. He hadn’t but said he hoped to.

“That’s … what made me so sad,” the source told the outlet. “His hope seemed very genuine. And I was just … like, ‘Oh, no.’”

The insider believed then that the prince may not have grasped just how much damage Spare caused, saying: “The power of the written word, and the power of the narrative … I don’t know if that’s something he understood while he was doing it.”

Here’s what a few royal watchers and experts think about that.

Expert says Prince Harry hasn’t enjoyed being ‘exiled’ and has become ‘isolated’

Royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams spoke to Fox News Digital following the Vanity Fair allegations. He claimed that the duke is feeling “isolated” now and would rather have a hybrid role in his family than exile but this is the path he chose.

“Harry is in exile — he chose it,” Fitzwilliams said. “It’s lonely, and he undoubtedly miss[es] his friends and family. There is no sign whatsoever of the rift in the royal family healing.”

Royal broadcaster and photographer Helena Chard added that there’s no turning back for Harry after releasing the explosive memoir about his family. And she doesn’t buy that the duke didn’t realize the damage Spare would cause.

Chard questioned how “a self-assured, self-titled, angry Prince Harry thought it was completely OK to publicly verbally annihilate his family? It is said he was naïve and didn’t realize it would upset his family … He didn’t realize that his actions would cause such a fallout with his family and the public?!”

To Di For Daily podcast host Kinsey Schofield also weighed in on the duke and duchess and said that Harry doesn’t accept responsibility. He instead “blames” the couple’s failures on the Palace and believes the royals are “working against” him and his wife.

According to Schofield, “Meghan does enable Prince Harry. He was not such an isolated character prior to meeting Meghan. I am told that Prince Harry blames the royal family for his and Meghan’s professional failures. Harry still feels like the Palace is working against them and turning the public against them, making it harder for them to make a living, which is simply not true. The royal family has moved on.”

Fitzwilliams agrees that Harry and Meghan aren’t on the royals’ minds these days insisting: “King Charles and the Prince and Princess of Wales have, to put it mildly, other priorities.”