He didn’t really want all the way out, and neither did she. The spoiled babies just wanted to do things their own way. They tried to write their own ticket and dictate terms to the boss (Queenie), and got shown the door instead.
How Long Has Prince Harry Wanted to Leave Royal Life?an. 9, 2020.
"As Kaitlin Menza, host of the “Royally Obsessed” podcast, wrote for NBC, “The move might seem severe, but for royal watchers, it's been building for quite some time.”
“My deepest fear is history repeating itself,” Harry wrote in a statement explaining the latter suit.“I've seen what happens when someone I love is commoditized to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person. I lost my mother, and now I watch my wife falling victim to the same powerful forces.”"
Turn off the politics for a moment and look at his 32 year.
The friction was slowly building since his mother died, 20 years before he ever met Megan. Growing up in the Royal Family and knew what would happen if he tried leaving, he saw it happen to his mother. He went through Sandhurst, did two tours in Afghanistan qualified on AH-64s, and is heavily involved in charity work. He accepted the consequences before extricating himself from Royal life.
He is not trying to have his cake and eat it too, he does not care about the cake anymore. Saying that he is is face saving for the tabloids.