1.
Didn't Cooperate with Author of Book about Sussexes
Meghan issued
an apology last week, saying she had “forgotten” a significant email in
which she had authorized a former press aide to cooperate with the authors of a
flattering biography of her and Harry. The couple had repeatedly denied in
court and elsewhere that they had collaborated with the authors of “Finding
Freedom.” Their lawyers had said that claims she collaborated with Omid Scobie
and Carolyn Duran were “false,” “fantastical” and “a conspiracy theory,” the
Times UK reported.
2.
Married Three Days Before Official Wedding
Prince
Harry and Meghan Markle have finally admitted to The Daily Beast that they were
not married three days before their official ceremony, as they had claimed in their interview with Oprah Winfrey.
A
spokesperson for the couple conceded Monday that “the couple exchanged personal
vows a few days before their official/legal wedding on May 19.”
That
backyard exchange of personal vows does not constitute marriage.
Meghan,
39, said in the interview, “You know, three days before our wedding, we got
married. No one knows that. The vows that we have framed in our room are just
the two of us in our backyard with the Archbishop of Canterbury.”
The
claim was much disputed, not least because in the U.K. a minimum of two
witnesses are needed for a legal marriage to take place.
3.
Archie Isn't a Prince Because of His Racial Background
Meghan: "And that was when they were saying they didn’t want him to be a prince or a princess — not knowing what the gender would be, which would be different from protocol — and that he wasn’t going to receive security."
Oprah: What?
Meghan: It was really hard.
Oprah: What do you mean?
Meghan: He wasn’t going to receive security. This went on for the last few months of our pregnancy, where I’m going, ‘Hold on a second’.
Oprah: That your son — and Harry, Prince Harry’s son was not going to receive security?
Meghan: That’s right, I know.
Oprah: How . . . but how does that work?
Meghan: How does that work? It’s like, ‘No, no, no. Look, because if he’s not going to be a prince, it’s like, OK, well, he needs to be safe, so we’re not saying don’t make him a prince or a princess — whatever it’s going to be . . .‘But if you’re saying the title is what’s going to affect their prote-tion, we haven’t created this monster machine around us in terms of clickbait and tabloid fodder. You’ve allowed that to happen, which means our son needs to be safe’.
Oprah: So, how do they explain to you that your son, the grandson, the great-grandson of the Queen . . .
Meghan: Mm-hmm.
Oprah: . . . is not going to have . . . he wasn’t going to be a prince? How did they tell you that? And what reasons did they give? And then say, ‘And so, therefore, you’re not . . . you don’t need protection’.
Meghan: There’s no explanation.
Oprah: Hmm.
Meghan: There’s no version. I mean, that’s the other piece of that . . .
Oprah: Who tells you that?
Meghan: I heard a lot of it through Harry and then other parts of it through conversations with . . .
Oprah: Mm-hmm.
Meghan: . . . family members. And it was a decision that they felt was appropriate. And I thought, well . . .
Oprah: Was the title . . . was him being called a prince, Archie being called a prince, was that important to you?
Meghan: If it meant he was going to be safe, then, of course. All the grandeur surrounding this stuff is an attachment that I don’t personally have, right? I’ve been a waitress, an actress, a princess, a duchess. I’ve always just still been Meghan, right? So, for me, I’m clear on who I am, independent of all that stuff. And the most important title I will ever have is Mom. I know that.
Meghan: But the idea of our son not being safe, and also the idea of the first member of colour in this family not being titled in the same way that other grandchildren would be . . . You know, the other piece of that conversation is, there’s a convention — I forget if it was George V or George VI convention — that when you’re the grandchild of the monarch, so when Harry’s dad becomes king, automatically Archie and our next baby would become prince or princess, or whatever they were going to be.
Oprah: So, for you, it’s about protection and safety, not so much as what the . . . what the title means to the world.
Meghan: That’s a huge piece of it, but, I mean, but . . .
Oprah: . . . and that having the title gives you the safety and protection?
Meghan: Yeah, but also it’s not their right to take it away.
Oprah: Yeah.
Meghan: Right? And so, I think even with that convention I’m talking about, while I was pregnant, they said they want to change the convention for Archie.
Oprah: Mmm.
Meghan: Well, why?
Oprah: Did you get an answer?
Meghan: No.
Oprah: You still don’t have an answer?
Meghan: No.
Oprah: You know, we had heard — the world, those of us out here reading the things or hearing the things — that it was you and Harry who didn’t want Archie to have a prince title. So, you’re telling me that is not true?
Meghan: No, and it’s not our decision to make, right?
Oprah: Mm-hmm.
Meghan: . . . even though I have a lot of clarity on what comes with the titles, good and bad — and from my experience, a lot of pain.
Oprah: Mm-hmm.
Meghan: I, again, wouldn’t wish pain on my child, but that is their birthright to then make a choice about.
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However, according to royal protocol, Archie
can only receive a title when Prince Charles takes the throne. King George V issued a writ in 1917 that only
royal offspring who are in direct line of succession can be made prince and
receive HRH titles.
Furthermore, the title of "prince" or "princess" does not guarantee around-the-clock security. "The Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles, Camilla, Prince William and Kate all get round-the-clock protection - while Princess Anne, Prince Edward and Sophie are guarded only on official duties and engagements."
4. Hasn't Seen Her Half Sister for 20 Years
Meghan dismissed her estranged half-sister
Samantha Markle by saying she had not seen her for “at least 18, 19 years”. But a photograph shows Meghan smiling and
with her arm around with Samantha at her graduation in 2008.
5. TV Was Never Part of the Plan
Meghan agreed when Harry said working with TV
companies, such as streaming giant Netflix, was not part of the plan when they
first planned a move to the US. It has
since been revealed the couple started speaking to Quibi video streaming in
early 2019.
6. Meghan’s
passport was taken from her
Meghan claimed during the Oprah chat that she’d had her passport taken from her. She also said she was unable to “just leave”. After signing onto royal life, she said “that was the last time, until we came here, that I saw my passport”. However, after meeting Harry, she must have still had her passport to hand – as the couple jetted off on 13 holidays together, including breaks in Ibiza, Nice and Amsterdam. She also travelled without Harry to New York and Toronto.
7. Interview with "The
Cut" 2022
“Earlier in our conversation about her goals
for the life she’s creating here, she’d remarked upon how, if Archie were in
school in the UK, she’d never be able to do school pick-up and drop-off without
it being a royal photo call with a press pen of 40 people snapping
pictures.” “Sorry, I have a problem with that. That doesn’t make me
obsessed with privacy. That makes me a strong and good parent protecting my
child,” Meghan is quoted as saying.
Again, this sounds horrifying: The rapacious
press lying in wait for a small child who only wants a busy day of gluing their
fingers together and learning why we don’t eat organic, vegan finger
paint. Except, this is not what happens to tiny HRHs. Far, far from it.
As Richard Palmer, the Daily
Express’s royal correspondent put it on Twitter: “I’m afraid Meghan is a
fantasist if she believes this would be a daily occurrence in the UK.”
Or as the Daily
Mail’s Dan Wootton, who has long been highly critical of the couple,
posted: “The lies in this interview are extraordinary. Meghan claims there
would be a royal press pen with 40 photographers each time she took Archie to
school. Rubbish!”
In the past five years not a single, solitary
image of Prince William and Kate taking any of their three children to school
or preschool has ever been published in the press, despite the fact the duo do
the school run every, damn, day. (Very occasionally some shots taken by the
public crop up on social media, but these only demonstrate just how low-key
they keep things when out with their kids, not a press pen in sight.)
Since 2017 Prince George has attended Thomas’
Battersea (sister Princess Charlotte joined him there in 2019) while since 2021
their little brother Prince Louis has been a student at Willcocks nursery
school.
All of Fleet Street knows where to find
William or Kate and their kids every Monday to Friday at exactly the same time.
And yet, again, never once has a photo of a
harried Kate hustling her kildets out of a vast Range Rover appeared on front
pages or a shot of William trying to wedge his youngest son into a Bluey anorak
while not dropping the 17th century coronation orb the tot wants to bring in
for show and tell appeared online.
This comes down to both the arrangement that
exists between Kensington Palace and the press to leave royal kids alone and
the IPSO guidelines which specifically detail protections for children.
On two occasions, when George started school and then later when his sister
Charlotte joined him, very carefully staged photo shoots took place with the
shots taken by a single, chosen photographer and with one single, chosen
journalist covering each event.
8. Didn't know anything about the royals
When Meghan and Harry got engaged in November 2017, she claimed she barely knew who he was when they met on their first date
She said: “It’s so interesting because we talk about it and now and even then, I, you know, because I’m from the States, you don’t grow up with the same understanding of the Royal Family and so while I now understand very clearly, there’s a global interest there.
“I didn’t know much about him, and so the only thing that I had asked her when she said that she wanted to set us up, was, I had one question. I said, ‘Well is he nice?’”
Meghan also insisted she didn’t do “any research into the monarchy" before they got married.
But according to the authors of Finding Freedom, Meghan conducted a thorough Google search on Harry ahead of their date.
Meghan had also known Princess Eugenie for several years before meeting the Duke, and her old school friend Ninaki Priddy said Meg was "fascinated" by both the Royal Family and Princess Diana.
Another of Meghan’s childhood friends claims she was always obsessed with royalty and had aspirations of being "Princess Diana 2.0”.
Ninaki said the pair traveled to London as teens and even shared a photo of them beaming in front of Buckingham Palace.
9. Couldn't invite niece to wedding
In the new Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex shared that while she was not close to her half-sister Samantha Markle, she had a close bond with Samantha’s daughter, Ashleigh Hale. However, things got tricky when it came to the guest list for the couple’s royal wedding in 2018.
“How do we explain that this half-sister isn’t invited to the wedding, but that the half-sister’s daughter is?” said Meghan, 41. “With Ashleigh, the guidance at the time was to not have her come to our wedding. I was in the car with H. I had her on speakerphone and we talked her through what guidance we were given and why this assessment was made … and that’s painful.”
“I think I said I was hurt on some level, but I understood where it was coming from,” Ashleigh said. “To know that it was because of my biological mother that this relationship that’s so important to me was impacted in that way … to feel like, because of her it was taken away, has been hard.”
https://www.celebitchy.com/796175/duchess_meghan_kp_wouldnt_allow_me_to_invite_my_beloved_niece_ashleigh/
In an attempt to dispute Meghan Markle’s version of events the Palace insider claimed, “We never gave any advice, steer or guidance on who of her family or friends should or shouldn't come to her wedding. It was more so the fact that “[Meghan] didn't want to invite her because it would have put her [Meghan] under intense scrutiny. Meghan didn't want the media to know about [niece] Ashleigh. No one on earth would have said don't invite family to the wedding. That's a complete and utter lie. We wanted more family there to make it look less weird for her.”
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1019318-palace-sources-breaks-silence-on-meghan-markles-utter-lies
10. Didn't know how to curtsy
A clip of Meghan Markle "executing a curtsy perfectly" in Suits has resurfaced after the Duchess claimed “I didn't know what I was doing” when greeting Queen Elizabeth II.
The former actress insisted in her bombshell Netflix docuseries alongside Prince Harry that no one ever taught her how to adapt to royal life, or showed her how to curtsy.
(I have seen an interview with the person who taught her how to curtsy for Suits and said that they practiced over but cannot find.)
11. His Dad Never Hugged him
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