Meghan Markle has something in common with Prince Philip – they were both despised and despised by palace officials when they married their royal wife.
The prince felt treated as an ‘outsider’ and “treated” when he married then-Princess Elizabeth, just as Markle says she was treated when she married Prince Harry.
‘Life in court was very frustrating for him at first. It was very sultry, “said Lord Brabourne, a family member of Philips, according to Ingrid Seward in her book,” My Husband and I: The Inside Story of the Royal Marriage. “
Court-goers did not love Philip too much from the beginning. Despite being distantly related to the queen, they do not like the fact that he was born in Greece and is therefore strange, Seward wrote.
‘Tommy Lascelles (King’s private secretary) was impossible. They were bloody to him. They favored him. They treated him like an outsider. It was not very nice, ”she remarks.
“He laughed it off, of course, but it must have hurt. I’m not sure Princess Elizabeth noticed that. She probably did not see it. ”
But the queen, who fell in love with Philip as a 13-year-old, was not interested in what the palace officials thought. The couple married in 1947.
In those days, court officials and senior members of the royal household exercised enormous influence and power.
Prince Philip, who was famous in opinion and did not suffer fools at all, was offended by palace advisers who found him ‘abusive and rude’.
“He knew he was going to go into the lions’ den. He was very aware of the way he was treated and how hard he would have to fight for his position and his independence (against the foundation). What he did not know was just how scary it would be, “said Philip’s cousin, Lady Pamela Hicks, according to Seward’s book.
When Elizabeth’s father died unexpectedly in 1952 and she became the sovereign ruler at the age of 25, it turned Philip’s world on its head. He was forced to give up his career in the navy and work out a new job for himself.
“According to the Express newspaper, Philip was constantly pounded into a wall, knocked down, marked off and beaten over the knuckles,” said Mike Parker, the duke’s former private secretary. It was unbearable. The problem was simply that Philip had energy, ideas, rise-and-go, and that it did not establish a bit in the business. ‘
And just like her in-laws, Meghan Markle’s problems with the palace began almost immediately after she and Prince Harry were married in May 2018.
There were rumors that the former ‘Suits’ star had emailed her staff at 5am with ideas on how to shape her role and that she was accused of breaking up the royal playbook.’
And just as Philip was criticized for his lack of respect and non-British background, so was Markle.
Royal expert Camilla Tominey told The New Yorker that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s nasty split with the royal family was ignited by the “collision” of the California native with palace staff who did not like her supposed lack of respect for palace traditions , and they were suspicious of her Hollywood. background.
“I put it under a clash of cultures, in the sense that she came from a familiar world, which is very fast and very demanding,” Tominey says. “The royal world is very different – it has to be slower and very hierarchical.”
A few days before the now California-based couple’s bombing of Oprah Winfrey, the palace claimed that Markle had bullied staff during her time as a working royal at Kensington Palace – something her office strongly denies.