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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s Security Guard Accused of Snubbing Elderly Neighbor

July 25, 2023

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s security guards have been accused of rudely brushing off an elderly neighbor in Montecito, California.

Frank McGinity, an 88-year old US Navy veteran, claimed that he approached the home of the royal couple after they moved in the area. The man claims that soon after they moved in, he had wanted to gift some films about the history of the area.

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, arrives to give evidence at the Mirror Group Phone hacking trial at the Rolls Building at High Court on June 06, 2023 in London, England. Prince Harry is one of several claimants in a lawsuit against Mirror Group Newspapers related to allegations of unlawful information gathering in previous decades.

“I have a big house next to Harry and Meghan’s property and I live in the guest house while renting the main house out on Airbnb,” he said, according to the Montecito Journal via the Independent.

“Harry and Meghan live on old McCormick property and I went up to their gate with the films on a CD, but they weren’t interested,” he claimed.

Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex arrive on the long Walk at Windsor Castle arrive to view flowers and tributes to HM Queen Elizabeth on September 10, 2022 in Windsor, England. Crowds have gathered and tributes left at the gates of Windsor Castle to Queen Elizabeth II, who died at Balmoral Castle on 8 September, 2022.

“The gate guy turned me away and wouldn’t take the film, just saying ‘they’re not interested.’ I was trying to be neighborly,” he alleged.

He added: “We don’t see them very much around here. It’s surprising they came here. People are typically older. It’s where the elephants come to die.”

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle attend an official photocall to announce their engagement at The Sunken Gardens at Kensington Palace on November 27, 2017 in London, England. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been a couple officially since November 2016 and are due to marry in Spring 2018.

McGinity noted that he lives a “tiara’s toss or two” from the Susexes’ property.

The royals moved into the property back in 202 with their son Prince Archie. The couple also welcomed daughter, Princess Lilibet, two years later.

Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex attend the "Our Planet" global premiere at Natural History Museum on April 04, 2019 in London, England.

A source previously told Page Six that the home is  “the first home either of them has ever owned” and they were excited to “put down their roots in this house and the quiet community, which has considerable privacy.”

The couple has not commented on the situation.