NOT MEGA
Meg ‘expected a billionaire & got a millionaire’ claim insiders as she thought life with Harry would be limitless wealth
Plus, scroll down for more on how Meghan Markle hit the spotlight aged just 12
MEGHAN Markle "expected a billionaire" but "got a millionaire’"with Prince Harry, palace insiders have claimed.
And according to royal sources, the Duchess, 43, expected royal life to be "castles, glittering balls and limitless wealth".
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Not only this, but it’s also been reported that shortly after meeting Prince Harry, Meghan realised she needed to "reassess assumptions she’d made" about the royals.
In Tom Quinn’s latest book, Yes Ma’am: The Secret Life of Royal Servants, which will be published on February 18, the royal commentator revealed all on Meghan’s "typically American view of the royal family before she joined it".
As reported in , Tom claimed: “Meghan Markle had a typically American view of the royal family before she joined it - for her, life was all about castles, glittering balls and limitless wealth and ease.
“As one royal staff member put it, “She expected a billionaire and she got a millionaire.”
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In other bombshell claims...
- 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"
- 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"
Given the Suits actor came from an American background, Tom claimed that her assumptions were “perfectly understandable”.
Tom, who has spoken to numerous royal staff, shared that when Meghan discovered that Harry was worth about £20 million, she realised she “needed to reassess other assumptions she’d made about this strange new family”.
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And according to sources, it appeared that Prince Harry, 40, had spent little time explaining exactly how “demanding” his family really were.
So it may not come as a surprise that Meghan “really disliked the hierarchy”, a member of her former team said.
The palace insider claimed: “Many of the rules do seem pretty pointless and exist only so that the relative status of each senior royal is protected.
“And the senior royals are such a sensitive bunch - if one gets a gold pen or a new car, they all want one. Meghan thought they behaved like babies.”
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But it wasn’t just Meghan who wasn’t best pleased, as a former member of the Kensington Palace staff explained: “When someone arrives from the United States and tries to change things, the old guard really don’t like it.
"And the old guard are terrific snobs. They have to be less obviously snobbish today, but it’s still there.”
How confident Meghan Markle hit the spotlight aged 12
MEGHAN Markle proved herself as a feminist long before hitting the spotlight - pushing for change at just 12.
Footage of the US actress as a school student has surfaced, with the young woman having written letters demanding for a cleaning ad to change their sexist ad's phrasing from "women" to "people".
Meghan had taken issue with Ivory's ad for dishwasher soap, that claimed "women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans".
Taking up a pen and paper, the determined student wrote to the company, asking for them to make a change - and they did.
Nickelodeon footage of Meghan explaining just why she had decided to speak out has since resurfaced, with the fresh-faced student already well-spoken and thoughtful.
Speaking to the camera, she explained: "I said - wait a minute, how could someone say that?"
She said that she realised a number of commercials would hurt people's feelings, and was determined to make a change.
In the 1993 interview, she said: "I don’t think it is right for kids to grow up thinking that mom does everything.
"If you see something that you don’t like or offended by on television or any other place, write letters and send them to the right people and you can really make a difference, not just for yourself but for lots of other people."
One of Meghan’s former staff recalled the awkwardness and hilarity of early meetings with the new duchess at Kensington Palace.
The source shared: “It was extraordinary because she was so confident that you could see she wanted to run the meeting rather than learn about the royal family through the meeting.
Meghan Markle had a typically American view of the royal family before she joined it - for her, life was all about castles, glittering balls and limitless wealth and ease
Tom Quinn
“I think this was typical of what happened throughout her time at Kensington Palace and then Windsor. She was a great believer in grabbing the bull by the horns - except the royal family is not really a bull.”
Meghan also undoubtedly felt constrained by protocol, as a former Kensington Palace staffer claimed: “Meghan quite rightly hated the fact that when she was in Nottingham Cottage, she had to agree well in advance what time she might leave for an appointment or an event and she had to make sure she didn’t leave at the same time as, or clash in any way with, a more senior royal leaving the palace.”
Why did Prince Harry and Meghan Markle step back as senior working royals?
PRINCE Harry has always wanted out of the Royal Family and the repercussions will be felt for years, an expert has claimed.
The Duke of Sussex has lived in California with his wife Meghan Markle since 2020 after they dramatically quit their jobs as working royals and moved across the pond.
Katie Nicholl, who is Vanity Fair's royal correspondent, told The Sun's Royal Exclusive show that Megxit did not come as a surprise to her.
Speaking to The Sun's Royal Editor Matt Wilkinson, the commentator explained: "Anyone who knows Harry is aware he's always wanted a way out of the Royal Family.
"He's said multiple times on the record that he wished he'd never been born a prince.
"I think he really is living the life he wants to now. It's very, very sad that it's played out the way it has.”
In a statement made on the Sussexes' account as they stepped back in 2020, the pair wrote: "After many months of reflection and internal discussions, we have chosen to make a transition this year in starting to carve out a progressive new role within this institution.
"We intend to step back as ‘senior’ members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen.
"It is with your encouragement, particularly over the last few years, that we feel prepared to make this adjustment.
"We now plan to balance our time between the United Kingdom and North America, continuing to honour our duty to The Queen, the Commonwealth, and our patronages.
"This geographic balance will enable us to raise our son with an appreciation for the royal tradition into which he was born, while also providing our family with the space to focus on the next chapter, including the launch of our new charitable entity.”
Not only this, but another problem for Meghan was the servants - whilst she loved having everything done for her by the domestic staff, at the same time, she also hated it too.
One former staffer acknowledged: “Through absolutely no fault of her own, Meghan wasn’t always great with her staff - she just wasn’t used to it as Harry was.”
The former staff member recognised that one minute Meghan would be “really friendly, perhaps overfriendly” and trying to make friends with staff, whilst the next, she would be “irritated by the fact they wouldn’t respond instantly at all times of the day and night”.
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Whilst the sources claimed that it was “true that her nickname for a while was the Duchess of Difficult”, they recognised that she “could be difficult because she was finding life difficult - trying to feel her way and work out the intricacies of a positively medieval, labyrinthine system.”
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