The sisters-in-law Duchess Meghan and Princess Kate have long been said to have a kind of competition. According to the latest statements, the assumption seems to be correct.
They are the same age, married the brothers Prince William and Prince Harry and yet Meghan always had the feeling that she had to fall in line behind Princess Kate. Not least because she will one day be Queen of Great Britain. A role that the actress was apparently never able to come to terms with at the royal court.
“She was constantly competing with Kate. Whatever she had, Meghan wanted more,” a source told the British magazine “TheTelegraph” about Duchess Meghan. The magazine claims to have learned details about the sisters-in-law’s dispute from various sources. Meghan Markle has been at Prince Harry’s side since June 2016, The couple made their relationship official in November 2016. She and her husband were part of the royal family until 2020, then they left and emigrated to America.
During the time at court there should always be conflicts and a kind competition between the two sisters-in-law. There is talk of jealousy because the heir to the throne and his family lived lavishly in Kensington Palace, but Harry and Meghan only lived in the small Nottingham Cottage and later the slightly larger Frogmore Cottage.
Meghan is also said to have resented the fact that the Princess of Wales was the first to be able to choose her designers for big events. Both worshiped Erdem Moralıoğlu at the time, but Kate was probably allowed to vote first and Meghan had to adapt. The moment when she was at her best is said to have been of little help with the Sussex Duchess’s jealousy Girlfriendthe stylist Jessica Mulroney introduced the future queen Kate and she is said to have had a real “fangirl moment”.
A source confirmed that Princess Kate seemed very popular with the staff: “The Princess of Wales is extremely popular with the staff. I remember she dropped by Clarence House after Prince Louis was born, quietly answering the door of the house “I knocked on the door of the staff quarters and introduced the baby to them all. That really touched them.” Duchess Meghan is also said to have tried to win the favor of the staff. In Harry’s memoir “Spare” he wrote that his Woman with baskets full of food and flowers “spread kindness and bought pizza and cookies.” She “hosted tea parties and ice cream get-togethers.” But a source also says that when an ice cream van showed up at Kensington Palace, there were reportedly strict instructions that it could only be enjoyed by the Sussexes’ crew.
Duchess Meghan is said to have not felt needed
A sticking point in the relationship between the sisters-in-law is said to have occurred in 2018. As royal expert Tina Brown wrote in her book “The Palace Papers,” Meghan took up most of the airtime at a Royal Foundation event. At that time they still performed as a foursome. ““With carefree confidence, Meghan addressed an issue that wasn’t even on the foundation’s agenda – women’s empowerment, which reached its peak with the #MeToo movement,” Brown wrote.
The Duchess also said: “Women don’t have to find a voice. They have a voice. They have to feel empowered to use it.” According to the author, Prince William and Duchess Kate are said to have shown a slight annoyance. After that, they never performed as a foursome again, except for official events such as “Trooping the Color” or the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.
According to an insider from the Telegraph, Meghan wasn’t comfortable playing second fiddle. “I think Meghan always had the impression of being a self-made woman, while Kate didn’t really have a career of her own. She seemed to feel like she had more say than her sister-in-law, who had married into the family as an unknown, while Meghan considered herself a philanthropist who could teach the royals a thing or two about charity.”
There was no pressing need for her presence at the charity, a point that Harry’s wife apparently struggled with: “I think she found it difficult that the Royal Foundation was already a well-oiled machine when she was there arrived,” said the source.
According to an interview with royal expert Omid Scobie, who recently published the book “Endgame” about the royal family, Princess Kate and Duchess Meghan have not communicated with each other for four years. Before this status came about, Duchess Meghan was apparently the only one who called the heir to the throne’s wife “Kate”, whereas the entire family should actually call her by her full name “Catherine”.
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