If you were a dutiful royalist who made your living embiggening the left-behind royals, you’d think that the biggest story of the week would have been the Princess of Wales’s mysterious absence from the diplomatic reception on Tuesday night. You would think that all of the royal reporters would be eager to complain and explain about how dire it is that Kate couldn’t wear a tiara and make small talk with diplomats. Instead, there’s been almost complete silence. And now this: Richard Eden’s latest column in the Mail is all about how Queen Elizabeth II secretly hated Meghan Markle. In this piece, Eden selectively regurgitates a half-dozen old stories about sh-t that went down in 2018. Some highlights:
Meghan spent Christmas 2017 with the Windsors: While other women who had married into the Windsors, such as Kate Middleton and Sophie Rhys-Jones, had to wait until after their weddings to be invited to spend Christmas at Sandringham, Meghan was allowed to join Harry in 2017, five months before the big day. It was an unprecedented and highly personal gesture by the Queen. Courtiers say the Queen believed that Meghan – a divorced, mixed-race American actress – would be a breath of fresh air and a great asset to the Monarchy.
Fast-tracking Meghan: The Queen fast-tracked her entry into the Royal Family, inviting Meghan to join her at a service to mark Commonwealth Day – her first official engagement with the Queen – two months before the wedding. It was another clear indication that Her Majesty valued Meghan and wanted her to be seen as a part of the family without delay.
Meghan’s wedding behavior! However, as the couple prepared for their wedding, the Queen began having concerns about Meghan’s behaviour and approach. First, she was said to be surprised that the new arrival rejected her suggestion that Prince Edward’s wife, Sophie, offer her guidance on joining ‘The Firm’. Her Majesty was also taken aback at the divorcee’s choice of a white bridal gown for what was her second wedding – but it was Meghan’s attitude towards her headwear that gave the Queen more serious cause for concern. She had offered Meghan access to her collection of tiaras and, during what Harry later described as an ‘extraordinary morning’, allowed her to try them on in front of her, her devoted dresser Angela Kelly and a royal jewellery expert in her private dressing room.
Angela Kelly is still trying to cause drama: Something later went badly wrong, however, when Meghan tried to arrange a fitting with Kelly, who, it seems, did not like the manner in which she was being treated by the bride and groom. Perhaps accustomed to ordering around underlings on a television shoot, Meghan may not have been used to dealing with someone such as Kelly, who – although a servant – was also a confidante and friend of the Queen.
Choice of bride: Despite all the pre-wedding strains, and perhaps a growing apprehensiveness about Harry’s choice of bride, the Queen made sure that Meghan felt welcome in the royal fold. She gave her the Duchess of Sussex title, and invited her granddaughter-in-law to accompany her on a solo visit to Chester just weeks after the nuptials, prompting Meghan to tell Oprah Winfrey in 2021: ‘The Queen, for example, has always been wonderful to me.’
Meghan threw it all back in the queen’s face! How did Meghan repay that generosity and kindness? By announcing, via a statement on the Sussexes’ Instagram page in January 2020, that they would be stepping back as senior working royals. Meghan then attacked the Royal Family in the most damaging way in that Oprah interview and later, in one of the most cringeworthy moments in her and Harry’s Netlfix ‘docu-series’, appeared to mock the deep curtsy that she had performed in front of the Queen at their first meeting.
Meghan wanted to be treated poorly! I have spoken to staff who worked at the Palace when the Sussexes were working royals, and some of them have told me that they formed the impression from the start that Meghan may not have wanted to make a success of her life in Britain. She appeared to be actively seeking reasons to be unhappy or resentful, and encouraged Harry’s long-standing bitterness at being the ‘spare’ and not the heir, the courtiers claim.
This whole storyline of “it was all in Meghan’s head, she was looking for a reason to get mad and quit” has been around for a few years. I remember someone – maybe Robert Lacey – throwing the theory out there. It feels like that comes straight from Prince William and his Kensington Palace courtiers, all of whom are trying desperately to deflect blame and avoid the very real accusations of racism and violence. As for the larger narrative that QEII was first welcoming and then suspicious of Meghan… they’re rewriting the history. QEII did like Meghan. Her courtiers did NOT. Charles’s courtiers did NOT. William’s courtiers did NOT. There was a widespread conspiracy across multiple households to push out Meghan or cause a divorce.
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- The Queen and Meghan The Duchess Of Sussex open the Mersey Gateway Bridge today, the bridge goes between Runcorn and Widnes in Cheshire.
Let’s talk about the royals fleecing the tax payers and country 🙄🙄 slumlord anyone 😠
What is their goal with this constant harassment of this woman?!
In one word – distraction.
In 2 words – profit.
It’s infuriating that they’ve attacked Meghan *again* as a distraction, because they shot themselves in their own feet.
All they had to do was have Kate there (if she was capable). Barring that, all they needed to do was say K’s health prevented her on short notice, but she’s going to try to attend XYZ in a few days.
They botched that narrative by stating that K would be planning her Xmas concert that evening: Something so petty and unbelievable, it had to be removed. And after it was removed, it seems like no one is allowed to mention it happened at all.
Suddenly, everyone’s been reminded K went missing without an explanation for months, no one could get (nor has gotten) the whole story straight on exactly what is going on, it’s clear K is NOT loved by one if not all of the attendees (KC, QCC, PW). K has not gone to a royal reporter as she would have in the past, so it looks like she’s been silenced. Now they need to gasp and point and shout, “Look over there!” to clean up the huge question of wtf is going on with Kate???
That’s really outrageously stupid. The Queen took every opportunity to show through actions her love and support for Meghan. And Meghan through her diligence and actions showed through her actions how committed she was to the role.
In her prior life, Meghan was never the lead role – she was part of a group. She would have been a great addition to this team – imagine if they had her services now.
Forgot to add my name – this is Duch
The fact that Meghan is good friends with her long time make up artist and hair stylist is evidence that she actually likes to befriend people who work with her, not order them around. Why would these people still be her friends if she was so awful? Why would her wedding dress designer refer to her as a girlfriend if she was the bossy person, ordering people around? Makes no sense.
But she did succeed, and they couldn’t stand her for it so they tried to destroy her.
Precisely KellyBelle. She “succeeded” so well she was overshadowing the lazy royals and their courtiers.
Yep, show me another married in with a cookbook, capsule collection, editing biggest edition of British Vogue, all in 18 months. There’s also a new wing at Mayhew. Hell, show me a “blood royal” with anything remotely similar in as little time. Hi, Harry!
She did succeed, you pricks, and you know it. That’s why you’re still moaning about her half a decade later.
Meghan was the most successful of all the married in women in the Windsor klan bar none – and her success is still being felt to this day.
Yep. That’s why when word on the streets was that Meghan was going to be rocking a Spencer tiara for her wedding, Queen Elizabeth gathered tf out of her courtiers to make sure the tiaras were (finally) available from her to choose from.
That’s why when Meghan was freshly married, the Queen made a point to go on a (TRAVELING!) engagement with her.
That’s exactly why even when the British media were screaming about how the entire family was soooo PISSED at them for leaving, “granny” was still taking their calls and sending them waffle makers as Christmas gifts, because that’s what Archie asked for.
That’s why when they came to personally visit her, when salty isle media crybabies weren’t aware of it, she personally invited them to the jubbly, and made sure they had their own personal procession.
That’s why she GAVE them Frogmore cottage, which their grifting ass relatives made sure to snatch back once she was gone.
That’s why when they originally went to Canada in 2020, she’d set them up with a payment arrangement as they figured out their shit.
PLEASE just spare us lmaoooo. What in the world.
Hope their delulu, amnesia, demensia ridden memories gets their RENT PAID this month, like they were obviously trying to do with this article. Hope them clicks are hitting, morons!
All of this! I remember that “Fab Four” thing in February 2018. Meghan wanted to hit the ground running and do all the good things/work. She spoke so professionally & intelligently.
QE2 liked Meghan. She recognized an asset, intelligence, love and that the corgis liked Meghan too was a big plus. It’s terrible that Maureen Eden is abusing QE2’s name in this manner. smh As per usual.
“I have spoken to staff who worked at the Palace when the Sussexes were working royals, and some of them have told me that they formed the impression from the start that Meghan may not have wanted to make a success of her life in Britain. She appeared to be actively seeking reasons to be unhappy or resentful, and encouraged Harry’s long-standing bitterness at being the ‘spare’ and not the heir, the courtiers claim.”.
Really, Richard/Maureen? Name the staff. Or, are you afraid of Meghan’s receipts? From the start? Hmmm, what was different about Meghan? Color? Peeps must be concerned about people buying the paperback version of SPARE to rehash this sh*t.
Angela Kelly? What name to bring up! As if Charles/Camilla didn’t have issues with her-thus her being fired/relocated.
She did what they told to her do and left since she did not like the way she was being treated and they’ve been crying for half a decade about it.
So in short, they believe that she didn’t want to succeed because she wasn’t willing to be treated like s*** by them. Oh okay. Meghan has had nothing but kind things to say about the queen whenever she has ( not any point recently by the way) spoken about her time on that island. They just can’t get over the fact that she was good at the job, ( better than those people who were born into it), wasn’t willing to debase herself for crumbs once she realized that it would never stop, and left and hasn’t spent the past 5 years pining and trying to figure out how to come back. She’s happy, she’s successful, and she’s loved and they can’t stand that. Which is why they want to brand her as a failure, with no friends, who’s hated by everyone, whose kids are eventually going to hate her, and whose husband wants to divorce her.
No they were very afraid she was succeeding! And because she was they had to bring her down and cause great harm to her so that she wanted to end her life. She was and still is, thank goodness, still shining bright and thriving. They still are trying to bring her down but they are failing and making themselves look very bad and evil.
Oh yeah, they really don’t want to talk about Kate’s absence. Or they do and they can’t. Bc this is some old tired and retreaded gossip. All of which can be refuted by Spare and our own eyes. Let’s see, iirc, the queen FaceTimed with the Sussexes and sent Archie a waffle maker. Was that the same Christmas where the Queen blanked kate and snubbed the hell out of her in Scotland when they did that walk by greeting? And let’s see, Meghan putting together a cookbook as soon as she got there for charity in the name of the crown was definitely a sign of her not trying to succeed/s🙄. GMAFB. This is weak sauce, Eden.
Princess Anne wore white for her second wedding. Yep, QEII’s daughter. And the tiara nonsense featuring Angela ‘machine gun’ Kelly again. Also known as AK47 and, literally, a brawler. Harry had issues with her, which is why she was being difficult.
And a lot of women out there have been remarried after divorce and worn white. So if the queen had a problem with this, it makes her look antiquated and mean. But I don’t think there is any proof that she did. In trying to bash Meghan they make the queen look bad. Not that these supposed monarchists care .
Sadly, attributing unverifiable remarks and views to the late Queen is becoming more and more common. Sensible people will treat it all with suspicion, if not contempt. Eden is not an intelligent man and many – even in the industry – see him as increasingly ridiculous and desperate.
And Kate wore clothes that would photograph white at Meghan’s wedding.
All this gaslighting just proves how scared they really are about the prospect of Meghan writing her memoirs
All this protestation that she rejected us and made us cry and bullied us is just a confession that V, W and K and courtiers are the ones putting the boot into Meghan!
This is Richard Eden’s weekly Thursday morning Meghan hate gossip column which he goes on later today to spew on the hate fest palace confidential show. We should all know the pattern by now.
His weekly meth binge.
They really really need to move on. It’s been 5 years since they left. The Queen is dead, Meghan said what she had to say about her time in the UK, and the Sussexes are building a life for themselves in the States. What even is the point to this article other than trying to distract from whatever is happening at KP and try to distort what actually happened? Meghan went there ready to roll up her sleeves and work for the Crown and Commonwealth, but being attractive, charismatic and hardworking was her fatal flaw according to them and they fed her to the wolves for it. She’s gone and done with them. This is useless.
Sounds like the courtiers should focus elsewhere instead of the tiny American 🇺🇸 who fled five years ago now. Time to move on find another distraction story rota.
That would mean using their brains!
Maureen says what, now?
Actions speak louder than gossip. Cookbook project a smash and still generating funds for the women in the towers. Capsule collection for for under resoursed women returning to workforce. Animal shelter new wing funded. Travel to Chester with QE2. Morocco, SA, Australia tours. And she was setting herself up for failure? Really?!!!
The courtiers were afaiid of having to actually work at the level Meghan did, with more output and innovation in a short amount of time than the rest of the royal bunch did combined over many more years.
This is re-hashing old stuff. The people who are not moving on are the royal reporters and columnists. All the stuff was 6 years ago.
For Angela Kelly it is probably more that AK47 was not used to deal with a confident Meghan who knew her worth and knew what she wanted. AK47 probably felt that Meghan was not grateful enough.
Angela Kelley said she worked for the Queen 17 years, which was “her highest honour”. She felt obviously betrayed by the Queen when asked to help Meghan and “was supposed to serve an American actress”. The old courtiers and aides think highly of themselves. They could accept to work with Diana, who was an aristocrat and so young when she married Charles, that much was forgiven. Until it was clear that Charles didn’t care about her, then the gloves came off.
They could deal with Kate, the commoner, who was at least British and had no ambition beside producing heirs, looking beautiful, and to be Queen some day. She didn’t disrupt their routine, working the bare minimum was fine for everyone involved. Except the Queen who critisized Kate’s laziness more than once.
The American actress? Beneath them. How dare she tell them what to do! Just for she married the Spare! William and Kate made it very clear they dislike her and the courtiers knew they will find backup for their snotty and snobby behaviour. And Sophie won’t do anything to anger the future master of the pursestrings by actually helping Meghan.
Of course these snakes took great care that none of that reached the Queen’s ears.
I can’t post under a user name, which is Petra.
Wow, the Left-Behinds must be excruciatingly boring, even to the rota who know what’s going on. My guess is ten years from now Meghan will still be bringing the clicks, so the British media will still be crowing about how ungovernable and hated she is.
These people need to go touch some grass. Sheesh!
This is such old news. Angela Kelly was awful. The Queen loved Meghan. The courtiers were awful to Meghan and determined to have her fail. Rinse and repeat!
The real question is: why did Kate skip the palace reception? Was she really not feeling well? She didn’t look great at the Remembrance Sunday appearance on the balcony (she looked ok during the performance at Royal Albert Hall shortly before). Or was she shut out by William/Charles/Camilla?
If she were just unwell they would have said so, instead the pathetic excuse for her not doing her job just makes it look bad for her.
By Meghan’s very nature she is an overachiever. To say that Meghan did not want to succeed in the UK is such a ridiculous statement. An achiever will always try to achieve anywhere they are. This is a character trait. One does not decide not to achieve in one specific place just to stick it to courtiers. Meghan’s ability to adapt to other cultures is evident in that she worked and lived in Argentina, studied in Madrid, lived in Toronto for several years. So no, the problem is not Meghan.
What is readily apparent for all the world to see is the successes Meghan and Harry have had outside the Royal Family and these kinds of stories are a way to counter that. This is why they try to sabotage them in everything they do. This way they can confirm that Meghan and Harry are not successful. But this does not work when people can see with their own eyes and judge for themselves.
The Royal Family is having a hard time justifying their treatment of Meghan and Harry and need to find a way to explain the colossal misjudgement about the two most charismatic people in the Royal Family.
Richard Eden and the Royal Rota seems to be tasked with finding new excuses each week to justify the bad behaviour of the Royal Family. The problem is – they have no credibility.
What Kaiser said. Is it that Richard Eden has nothing to write about so he’s just resorted to rehashing the Palace narrative? For all the declarations that the Royal Family treated Meghan well, there has been no actual stories to back that up.
This is the cover story for Kate not attending the dinner.
Well, when you have nothing else to talk about than the absence of a royal family member at a dinner, what is a tabloid to do?
I think there are going to be lots more angry screeds to the lead up of the trial in January. I think there are some nervous people in the UK who are afraid of what’s about to be made known publicly.
Translation: she was TOO successful and the inbred grifters were TERRIFIED of how much she & Harry exploded. 🤣
Richard Eden is always the most vicious of the rota against Meghan (Camilla Tominey wasn’t rota). Is this for the free dog food? He just writes pure vitriol without any basis in reality. At what point does a guilty conscience show up for writing this hateful stuff?
Is this for free dog food? Man, idk. We know that he knows what he says isn’t true and that’s he twisting obfuscating and lying. He knows he’s doing it too. So yeah, idk. The man is good with getting paid for being a hateful gossip.
Eden is on a tear. The bots are of course on DM slamming Meghan with the usual falsehoods. This is really scary stuff, the DM causing the hate comments. Some very scary. This is so not true. And Harry was not happy and wanted out before Meghan came along, but of course the sexist nonsense of her “luring” him out of the family is out there.
Agree that it really is scary stuff. And tired.
How come the Royals look the other way when this stuff comes out by Eden It is very damaging to the Queen herself, it makes her look bad and she’s not around to deny any of it.
The DM allows lies into the comments section. The bots and derangers talk about the “additional” husband Meghan had but the marriage was annulled. This is on social media hate sites. NO mainstream author ever mentioned the “additional” husband.
Another day in DARVOland for Maureen.
This! If what they mean by “she didn’t want it to work” was, she didn’t want racist threats to her safety and the safety of her children while the “firm” removed her security and the security of her children essentially leaving them for dead to be something she “grows to accept” as a normal part of her “duty to serve the crown”then yeah, who would “want” that to work? Who would serve anything that’s asking them to give up their own children’s safety in order to serve said thing? What in the DARVO gaslighting bull shit are they on about over there?
Of course she didn’t want to succeed, that’s why she published a cookbook, that I bought that continues to generate income for BRITISH PEOPLE, and designed clothes to help BRITISH WORKING WOMEN, and went everywhere they asked her to and did everything they asked her to. These people are diseased.
I suppose, though, that I can see why they think Meg didn’t want to succeed, because if you compare her to Kate and the impossibly busy and workaholic myriads of things Kate accomplishes, all things pale in comparison.
Most folks who have a passing interest in the UK royals know that this Eden man is a fan of Kate. Also, most folks with a passing interest in the UK royals know that Kate is only known for dressing in coat dresses looking like a relic from the past. Meghan is known by folks who care to know, for her work ethic and bubbly personality, something she bought with her into Harry’s family. In addition, this is what distinguished her from the rest of those women and it caused angst for them and her.
For those who dislike Meghan, this piece will serve them well. For most folks this is just another hit piece to deflect from the disaster and greed Harry’s birth family has created for themselves.
Many folks are now pointing this out and those gutter rats are not taken seriously anymore.