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A new book claims that a “fame-obsessed” Meghan Markle believed she would be beloved like Princess Diana by marrying Prince Harry.
Things didn’t go as planned, according to the book.
Problems began when Markle’s estranged father started making television appearances that were critical of the royals. This occurred repeatedly in the months leading up to the wedding.
Prince Charles allegedly “berated” his son Harry over the television appearances. “Can’t she just go and see him and make this stop?” Charles says in the excerpt about Markle and her estranged father.
The book also alleges that Harry lied to the future king and said his wife did not know how to reach her father.
Harry began to “sympathize with her rejection of the palace’s deference and hierarchy,” the book says.
The book, which is authored by Tom Bower, is titled “Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors.”
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The couple grew isolated and attracted scrutiny from the British tabloids by thumbing their nose at palace sensibilities. Meghan soon began to begrudge any comparisons with her prim and proper sister-in-law, Kate Middleton.
The “increasingly fragile” former actress began to lash out at critics and blame the palace for not defending her. Tensions heightened when she decided that Princess Eugenie’s wedding reception was an appropriate forum to announce she was pregnant, Bower wrote.
Days later, Harry and Meghan went on a tour of Australia where they were greeted with a rock star reception that evoked Princess Diana’s overseas tours. The couple’s resentment of the royals and delusions of grandeur convinced them that Meghan could pick up where Harry’s mother left off in terms of garnering goodwill from the public, the book claims.
The Sussexes failed to consider that Diana’s mass appeal was charged by her vulnerability and cultivated over many years of humanitarianism and even behavior, according to the excerpt. They begin to surround themselves with Hollywood insiders who assured them they could be as popular as the late princess on their own, the book said.
The Palace was unnerved by the couple’s ensuing independent PR blitz and set up “The Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex” not as a foundation but as a charity run by trustees — which Meghan viewed as a slight.
