Meghan Markle has something in common with Prince Philip: they both felt despised and despised by palace officials when they married their royal spouses.
The prince felt that he was treated as an “outsider” and “sponsored” when he married Princess Elizabeth, just as Markle says he was treated when he married Prince Harry.
“Life in court was very frustrating at first. It was very covered up, “said Lord Brabourne, a relative of Philips, according to Ingrid Seward in her book” My Husband and I: The Inner Story of Royal Marriage. “
The courtiers were not too interested in Philip from the beginning. Seward wrote that despite the fact that he was closely related to the queen, they did not like him being born in Greece and therefore a foreigner.
“Tommy Lascelles (the king’s private secretary) was impossible. They were bloody to him. They sponsored him. He was treated like an outsider. It wasn’t a lot of fun, ”he noted.
“He laughed, of course, but he must have hurt. I’m not sure Princess Isabel noticed. He probably didn’t see it. “
But the queen, who had fallen in love with Philip when he was a 13-year-old boy, was not interested in what the Palace officials thought. The couple married in 1947.
In those days the courtiers and members of the royal house had enormous influence and power.
Prince Philip, who famously spoke his mind and did not suffer the fools with joy, was resentful of the palace councilors who found him “abrasive and rude.”
“I knew I was going to the lions’ den. He was well aware of the way he had been treated and the difficulty he would have to fight for his position and independence (against the establishment). What I didn’t know was how scary it would be, ”Philip’s cousin Lady Pamela Hicks said, according to Seward’s book.
When Elizabeth’s father died unexpectedly in 1952, making her the sovereign ruler at the age of 25, she turned Philip’s world upside down. He was forced to give up his career in the Navy and build a new position.
“Philip was constantly crushed, disassembled, marked, beaten on the knuckles,” former Duke Private Secretary Mike Parker said, according to the Express newspaper. “It was intolerable. The problem was simply that Philip had energy, ideas, ideas, and that didn’t suit the establishment, not even. ”
And, like her grandfather-in-law, 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 was emailing her staff at 5 a.m. with ideas on how to shape her role and was accused of “breaking the royal game book.” .
And, in the same way that Markle was criticized for his lack of deference and his non-British baggage.
Royal expert Camilla Tominey told The New Yorker that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s unpleasant break-up with the royal family was ignited by the Native California’s “clash” with palace staff who dislike perception of disrespect for the traditions of the palace and who suspected his Hollywood background.
“I reduced it to a clash of cultures, in the sense that it had come from a famous world, which is very hectic and quite demanding,” Tominey opined. “The real world is very different. It has to be slower and very hierarchical.”
Days before the bombshell interview of the now California-based couple with Oprah Winfrey, the palace claimed that Markle had harassed staff during his time as a royal worker at Kensington Palace, which his office has strongly denied. .