Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have "provoked" members of The Firm but they would not respond, according to a royal source.
The royals will not respond to the couple's veiled jabs to avoid being "dragged down that rabbit hole" - a technique that the late Queen turned into an artform.
At the time of the release of the BBC2 programme 'The Princes and the Press', one source told the Daily Mail : "It was always very clear from the top that no one wanted to be dragged down that particular rabbit hole, however egregiously people were being provoked by the Sussexes.