Meghan Markle did not
understand her role in the Royal Family and didn’t like not being able to share
her opinions, a royal author has claimed.
The Duchess of Sussex did
not like suppressing her views as royals are often required to do when
representing the firm, it has been claimed by Tina Brown, the former editor of
Vanity Fair.
The author argues that the
40-year-old did not put the groundwork in as her late mother-in-law Diana did
before trying to focus her efforts on humanitarian work.
Ms. Brown examines the
relationships within the Royal Family in her new book The Palace Papers.
“I think that was her
fundamental sense of misunderstanding of what was going to happen when she
joined the Royal Family — she saw the palaces and Diana as this global
humanitarian superstar, but forgot that for 16 or 17 years Diana worked like a
dog within the royal family doing a lot of humdrum assignments,”
she recently told Lorraine Kelly in an interview.
“It was the charisma she
brought to the job that made her so extraordinarily special.”
Ms. Brown argues that the
Princess “worked like a dog” for over a decade before becoming a global
icon.
When asked by Lorraine how
Meghan got on during her 2018 tour of Australia, the royal author said that she
“didn’t like it at all”.
“She found the whole
representational job of suppressing your own views and representing the
monarchy just an anathema,” Ms. Brown continued.
“It’s not how she viewed her
role, the world, she did not understand the point of it and for her, yes, she
was a great success, but it was not something she wanted to do.”
