Meghan Markle and Harry: 'No way back' for couple says expert

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Meghan and Prince Harry issued a long list of allegations against the Royal Family in their jaw-dropping interview with Oprah Winfrey earlier this month. The Duchess of Sussex suggested she had little help from the Palace, especially when first adjusting to royal life. She explained: “Unlike what you see in the movies, there’s no class on how to… how to speak, how to cross your legs, how to be royal.

“There’s none of that training. That might exist for other members of the family.

“That was not something that was offered to me.”

Royal author Tom Quinn spoke to Pod Save The Queen — a podcast hosted by Ann Gripper and features Daily Mirror royal editor Russell Myers — and speculated over how Meghan learnt to cope on the royal frontline.

He said: “The great difficulty for Meghan was, I think, she thought she had to act the part, because that is what she does for a living — she is an actor.

“So she thought, ‘OK, I’m an English princess now, I’ve got to play the part’.

“And I think she found that very difficult.”

Meghan was an established actress in the States when she first met Harry in 2016, having risen to fame through the popular TV series Suits.

She had to leave that career behind when she joined the royal fold, because senior members of the Firm cannot be associated with separate careers.

Mr Quinn continued: “Once she moved into Kensington Palace, the royal machine began to operate.

“She realised she was only a small cog in this rather large machine.

“She couldn’t do as she pleased.”

He added that she was in a “gilded cage”, like the other royals.

Indeed, in their interview with Oprah, Meghan and Harry both claim they were “trapped” in the system of the monarchy during their time on the royal frontline.

The author continued: “I think that it would have quickly become apparent to Meghan that she didn’t have the lead role.

“The lead role was Catherine’s, and it wouldn’t matter how hard Meghan worked at being a princess, she would always be, as it were, number two, or even lower down.”

Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, is Meghan’s sister-in-law, married to Prince William.

Mr Quinn speculated that Kate has fitted into the royal fold well because she is married to the second-in-line to the throne — and so will one day become the Queen consort — and because she was accustomed to British culture.

Meghan, on the other hand, grew up in the States and claimed she went into the monarchy “naively because I didn’t grow up knowing much about the Royal Family”.

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She told Oprah: “I grew up in LA, you see celebrities all the time.

“This is not the same but it’s very easy, especially as an American, to go, ‘these are famous people’.

“[But] this is a completely different ball game.”

Speculation of a fallout between the two royal wives has been rife for years.

Meghan said Kate was a “good person” when speaking to Oprah – but revived the reports of a fallout between them dating back to 2018.

Mr Quinn said this misunderstanding of the royal hierarchy, combined with the lack of privacy and the intense media pressure that comes with being a royal, left the Duchess of Sussex struggling.

Indeed, Meghan told Oprah that she was surprised she had to curtsy upon her first meeting with the Queen.

She said: “I thought genuinely that’s what happens outside, that was part of the fanfare.

“I didn’t think that’s what happens inside. I go, ‘But it’s your grandmother’, he goes, ‘it’s the Queen’.”

Mr Quinn even claimed that it was a “fantasy” element of royal life that first attracted Meghan.

He said: “I’ve spoken to people who said she was so excited she could hardly speak when she first went to live at Kensington Palace.”

However, it was clear Meghan did not enjoy life at Kensington, as she and Harry moved to Windsor’s Frogmore Cottage shortly before their son Archie arrived.

They lived there only for a matter of months before relocating to Canada for a brief period, announcing their plans to step back from the Firm and hopping across the border to settle in Meghan’s home state of California.

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