A courtier in the Royal Household has said ‘there is something I don’t trust’ about Meghan Markle, a shocking new book has claimed.
The book, Finding Freedom, claims as soon as Meghan was introduced to members of the Royal Household, tensions emerged.
One source claimed: ‘She comes with a lot of baggage.’ Another suggested: There’s just something about her I don’t trust.’
A royal courtier claimed ‘there was something about Meghan Markle I don’t trust’ according to a shocking new book on the Duchess’ introduction into palace life. The Duchess is pictured here in September 2019 along with her husband, Prince Harry in Cape Town, South Africa
The book, Finding Freedom, has placed a critical eye on the relationship between the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, pictured here at the Grave of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey on November 11, 2018
According to the book, palace officials branded Meghan ‘Duchess Different’
According to the book, Meghan believed much of the criticism was based on the fact she was a woman of colour.
According to the Sunday Times, one friend of Meghan’s said palace officials branded her ‘Duchess Different’.
The source, who has not been named, claimed: ‘That’s what people have a problem with. She’s the easiest person in the world to work with. Certain people just don’t like the fact she stands out.’
A website designed to clarify Harry and Meghan’s future was ‘deeply upsetting’ to members of the royal family and ‘hurt the Queen’, a new book has claimed.
Finding Freedom, serialised in The Times and Sunday Times, said the couple were forced to take action after a story broke that they were going to stay in Canada permanently.
The book’s authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand wrote that a royal source denied leaking the story, instead blaming the couple ‘because they were frustrated at the palace in the talks that were going on… They wanted to force the decision, to break it open.’
The couple deny this claim, The Times reports.
On January 8, Harry and Meghan used their Instagram page to share the news of their future plans and launched the website sussexroyal.com.
The book’s authors also claim that the Sussex announcement that they were quitting the royal family ‘hurt the Queen’, pictured here with Meghan in Cheshire on June 14, 2018
The book’s authors write: ‘It offered clarity on their decision to be financially independent, which was not only to have more freedom in their work but to remove the tabloids’ justification in having access to their lives.
The website took everyone by surprise, the authors write.
‘Aides and family members knew the couple wanted to step back, but the website, which laid out the details of their half-in-half-out model as if it were a done deal, put the Queen in a difficult position.’
Buckingham Palace put out a short statement 15 minutes after the Sussexes made theirs, but aides including the Queen’s private secretary were ‘furious’.
And there was significant reaction from fellow royals, with a source saying the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were ‘devastated’.
A senior member of the household was quoted in the book as saying: ‘The element of surprise, the blindsiding of the Queen, for the other principals who are all very mindful of this, rightfully, it was deeply unsettling.
‘The family is very private and bringing it into the public domain, when they were told not to, hurt the Queen.
‘It was laying out what the Sussexes wanted in a statement without consulting with Her Majesty first – and she’s the head of the institution.’