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”.
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 The Times, 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.”
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”.
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.”
[bc_video account_id=”5067014667001″ application_id=”” aspect_ratio=”16:9″ autoplay=”” caption=”Meghan namedrops celeb mates for Insta clout but is unaware of bigger picture, expert blasts” embed=”in-page” experience_id=”” height=”100%” language_detection=”” max_height=”360px” max_width=”640px” min_width=”0px” mute=”” padding_top=”56%” picture_in_picture=”” player_id=”default” playlist_id=”” playsinline=”” sizing=”responsive” video_id=”6368307157112″ video_ids=”” width=”640px”]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.”
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.
[quote credit=”Tom Quinn “]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[/quote]“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.”
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”.
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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