Not one to shy away from stealing the spotlight, Meghan Markle spoke to a group of young girls at an event supposedly focused on her social media empowerment about what it’s like to be “one of the most bullied people in the world.”
Well, as those who claim to have witnessed her alleged behavior since she became engaged to Prince Harry might have asked, doesn’t it take one to know him?
First, I’m not sure how the privileged duchess’s ‘poor me’ act would have resonated with those schoolgirls in Santa Barbara, one of the poorest counties in California, where so many people live below the poverty line.
Second, it can’t be a coincidence that his heartbreaking claims came less than a month after accusations that he was difficult with his own staff.
Meghan talked about what it’s like to be ‘one of the most harassed people in the world’
The Hollywood Reporter published an article, largely based on information from a “very senior” source working for Harry and Meghan, according to its editor Maer Roshan, that claimed her employees dubbed her a “dictator in high heels.” He alleged that she was someone who “doesn’t take advice,” who “has made grown men cry,” and added for good measure the observation that “everyone is terrified of Meghan.”
The Sussexes responded, denouncing the stories as malicious, with a source close to the couple telling US Weekly magazine: “These quotes were made up by someone who didn’t know our company.” He cited from people who worked for Meghan that she was a good employer, considerate of the needs of her staff, giving them thoughtful gifts, including a dog collar for a staff member who had just gotten a dog and raised her children Archie and Lilibet. . had overcome.
Very well, but the truth is that Meghan can’t seem to shake off these recurring accusations that she really is Duchess Difficult, claims that began to surface shortly after she joined the Firm and which both she and Harry have vehemently denied. .
She reportedly behaved like a diva from the moment she joined the Royal Family. For her wedding, she apparently demanded to wear an emerald tiara worth $13 million. But the late Queen Elizabeth decided she couldn’t wear it, sparking a furious altercation with Prince Harry, who stamped his foot and said: “What Meghan wants.” Meghan gets it.’ His grandmother soon corrected him.
At first, excuses were made on her behalf: perhaps she was simply a career-driven American whose manners and style were very different from those of the British. What appeared to be unreasonable demands made on his staff were a matter of things being lost in transatlantic translation.
However, Meghan’s imperiousness continued to make headlines, for example in a dispute over what bridesmaids would wear to her wedding. It was claimed that Meghan made Kate cry, although Megs vehemently denies this and says it was Kate who did it. his cry!
I’m afraid I tend to lean towards the Princess of Wales in any honesty contest between them.
Perhaps most damning in terms of allegations against Meghan’s highhanded treatment of people are allegations of “bullying” by Palace staff during the brief time she worked as a royal in 2018.
Since the Sussexes married in 2018, at least 18 members of their workforce have moved on.
The Times newspaper first reported the claims in 2020, saying: “Meghan kicked two personal assistants out of the house and undermined the trust of a third.” He claimed that at one point the duchess blurted out: “It’s not my job to coddle people,” after even experienced aides who had worked for the royals for years ended up crying and humiliated by her “difficult demands.”
Such was the concern that, in 2021, Buckingham Palace asked an external law firm to review the allegations, which Meghan strongly refuted.
The results of the investigation have been buried by the Palace, but that has not stopped former staff members at the Firm calling themselves the “Sussex Survivors Club.”
Never in the recent history of the Royal Family has another senior royal woman, not the late Queen Camilla, nor Princesses Anne, Catherine or Sofia, been accused of bullying her staff.
Nor should we be surprised that rumors continue to spread in the United States, given the extraordinary turnover of high-profile personnel there. Since the Sussexes married in 2018, at least 18 members of their workforce have moved on, including Meghan’s highly respected private secretary, Samantha Cohen, who was so trusted that she rose to become the Queen’s deputy private secretary.
In California, his highly qualified global press secretary, Toya Holness, left after just ten months. Josh Kettler, his chief of staff, left after just three months. Although he later said that Harry and Meghan welcomed him “warmly” and that they are “dedicated and hard-working.”
Of course, the Sussex team goes on to report that it’s the nasty royals who are behind all these horrible stories about her, as Harry did in his book Spare, in which he directly accused Camilla of “sacrificing” them in the altar of his own ambitions.
They have claimed that the British media is colluding with the Palace to discredit Meghan. What nonsense. As if the hard-working royals don’t have anything else to think about, especially now that Charles and Kate are battling cancer.
In Meghan’s eyes, she is always the victim; In 2020, for example, she told the Teenager Therapy podcast: “I was the most trolled person in the entire world, male or female, and it was ‘almost impossible to survive.'”
And now he’s raising the issue of being the most harassed person in the world!
Sorry, Megs, it just doesn’t fit.
May I suggest that, in the long hours of the night in your Montecito mansion, you occasionally break out of your own sanctimony and ask yourself who the hell you are? real bully in this ongoing real psychodrama.
