Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are having a tumultuous time following their plummeting finances and the growing rift between them and the royal family. In 2020, the couple decided to step down from royal duties due to extra intrusive media institutions and ill-treatment from the royal family. In order to gain privacy, the couple shifted their bases to the USA at Montecito, California.
Before severing ties with the royal family, Meghan Markle had strife with her father, Thomas Markle, and step-sister, Samantha Markle. Meghan did not invite her father to the wedding in 2018 following the leak of some staged pictures. Since then, the actress has not spoken to her father. However, recently, one of his friends, Karl Larsen, breached her and her family’s privacy by arranging a tour near her Montecito house.
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Karl Larsen Claims He Is The Only Person Who Knows About What Happened Between Meghan Markle And Thomas Markle
Thomas Markle is marking his presence in Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s lives with his friend encroaching upon the couple’s privacy with a celebrity tour. Karl Larsen, a celebrity photographer and Thomas Markle’s friend, has arranged a bus tour around the famous spots where Meghan Markle and Prince Harry hang out, including around the periphery of the couple’s Montecito house.
The bus tour is called the Royal Celebrity Tour of Los Angeles and Montecito.’ The tour, as per The Mirror, costs $1,200 for a group of six people. The tour is listed on Tripening, where Karl has advertised the tour with a picture of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry kissing at a polo match in Santa Barbara.
The description of the tour read, “I’m the world-famous celebrity photographer Karl Larsen, a best friend of Thomas Markle (Meghan’s father) and the guy with a stunning exclusive portfolio of pictures of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle together in Montecito.”
Karl Larsen claims that he is the only person in the world who knows about what unfolded between Meghan Markle and her father. He added, “I am the only person who has an open communication pathway between Meghan’s camp and the rest of the Markle family. There is nobody on the planet that knows more info that [sic] me and I’m the only person that’s qualified to put on such a tour.”
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The Photographer Addresses The Breach Of Privacy Criticism For His Tour
Karl Larsen promised the tourists an in-depth tour of the place where Meghan Markle grew up. He also ensured that the tourists would visit the quaint beach town in California where the couple and other celebrities live.
The photographer will take the tourists to the favorite hangout spots of the couple, including the Polo and Racquet Club in Santa Barbara. He will take them to Markle’s old home and school in Los Angeles. Karl will also take the risk of taking the tourists near the road of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’ Montecito house.
People online have criticized Larsen’s move, and Christopher Bouzy, a tech entrepreneur, has called it “harassment.” Following the backlash, Tripenining has confirmed on X that they have removed the tour listing from their site.
Hey @cbouzy
Thanks for the heads up!
We removed that tour from sale— Tripening (@tripening) August 21, 2023
Karl Larsen addressed the criticism by speaking to Newsweek. He said, “I want to have the tour be available where she grew up. We’re going to go to Montecito but just places they go to, restaurants they go to.”
He continued, “It’s a custom tour so if people want to go see other sights that’s what we’re going to do but we will not go past Doria’s house and we will not go past Harry and Meghan’s.” The photographer said that he would continue the tour despite the backlash. “This is not going to be the end of the tour.”
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