MEGA AWKWARD
Meghan accused of FLIRTING with William by hugging & kissing him every time they saw each other, staff claim
Former royal staff members have spilled the gossip
MEGHAN Markle was accused of flirting with Prince William by hugging and kissing him every time they saw each other in vile gossip among courtiers, staff claim.
The Duchess of Sussex is said to have had a "hug everyone" approach after she joined the Royal Family - which caused some tension.
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Members of the Firm are raised to be stoic and follow strict protocol, but the former Hollywood actress came from a world apart.
Sources told Princess Kate, William and King Charles would flinch whenever Meghan moved in to embrace them.
This is said to have hurt the duchess, with her tactile manner making the Prince of Wales particularly uncomfortable.
"Meghan hugged him virtually every time they bumped into each other," the newspaper reports.
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- Meghan was branded Mystic Meg by staff for turning Harry into "tree-hugging leftie"
- Ex-staffer claiming Meghan had a "messiah complex", and thought senior royals "behaved like babies"
- Meghan "expected a billionaire & got a millionaire" with Harry
- Duchess' close friendship with junior staffer being seen as "inappropriate" by senior royals
- Meghan thought Kate was "too much a goody-two-shoes girl" before fallout, according to royal sources
- Prince Andrew demanded a staffer be transferred "because he disliked a mole on the man’s face"
- Duchess "really disliked the hierarchy" and wanted to "finish Princess Diana's work on a part-time basis"
"The hugging and cheek-kissing fuelled gossip among the staff that Meghan was flirting with William, which she was obviously not, but the tense atmosphere caused by all the touchy-feeliness (and the resultant gossip) deepened the rift between the brothers.
"In fact, William’s rather awkward, even inhibited personality — an inheritance from his father — was baffling for the more spontaneous Meghan."
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A member of staff recalled to The Times that Meghan asked why William and Charles "sound so serious all the time", and joked Harry had different parents as he "isn't pompous at all".
In fact, Meghan is said to have been nicknamed Mystic Meg for turning Harry into a "tree-hugging leftie" with her woke, new age views.
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Kate - who sources claim often has to move to calm William down - enjoys teasing him about his family.
As he gets older, she believes he looks more like his great-great-great-grandfather Edward VII.
And Camilla descends from Edward's favourite mistress, which Kate loves to remind her husband about.
It's reported that Kate - not yet understanding the strict rules for dress - once laid out an outfit for her future husband and he joked "she looked as if she’d just run through a charity shop covered in superglue".
The sources say the royals' needier side - having grown up with servants to organise everything - clashed with Meghan's independent mindset.
It was her who picked up on how Harry seemed to be being brushed aside, with one member of the royal comms team saying she didn't think Harry even thought about the fact he was a spare "until well into the marriage".
A running joke was reportedly that Harry was very much like the Prince Regent character in Blackadder.
It was joked that the duke would, without a servant, take two weeks to put on his trousers.
Due to all the rules - which Camilla herself is said to have told Charles were "b******s", they are often prone to temper tantrums.
Running baths at exactly the same time each day and having to have consultations about perfectly pressed suits means if things don't go exactly to plan they are liable to explode.
Prince Andrew, for example, is said to have fired a staff member after taking a disliking to a mole on his face.
And Prince Edward once tore into his driver for looking in his rear-view mirror too much.
Meghan, meanwhile, "really disliked the hierarchy" and wanted to "finish Princess Diana's work" - though allegedly "on a part-time basis".
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Meghan is said to have "felt constrained by protocol" from the start.
Her influence on Harry is said to have been seen by the royals as "rejecting the values and traditions of his family".
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