Meghan Markle issued a curt three-word retort when the penny dropped that she’d upstaged Queen Elizabeth II.
Meghan revealed in her Netflix documentary with Prince Harry that she felt awful after upstaging the late Queen on a royal visit.
The incident occurred on Remembrance Day in 2018. Harry explained that the “penny dropped” for Meghan when she saw herself on the front cover of the Sunday Telegraph the next day.
Meghan said that when she saw the front cover she exclaimed: “Oh my God.” To this, Harry added: “She was like, ‘But it’s not my fault’.”
Prince Harry explained that Remembrance Day and a trip to Australia earlier in the year had tripped a domino effect that in part led to the deterioration of their relationship with the Royal Family.
Harry explained: “The issue is when someone who’s marrying in, who should be a supporting act, is then stealing the limelight or is doing the job better than the person who is born to do this.
“That upsets people. You’ve been led to believe that the only way that your charities can succeed and the only way that your reputation can be grown or improved is if you’re on the front page of those newspapers.”
The night before Meghan saw the newspaper front page, Harry said that the pair “spent the night in a room in Buckingham Palace after an event where every single member of the family had been, including the Queen.”
Following on from their move to Montecito, California, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have had an eventful relationship with senior royals alongside the release of two major biographies in 2023.
According to one royal expert, Prince Harry will feel the repercussions of his memoir Spare because the book has “battered” his reputation.
According to Russell Myers, the Mirror’s Royal Editor, the book will influence Harry’s relationship with the rest of the Royal Family for a long time.
Talking to Sky News Australia, he said: “You start off at the beginning of the year, we had Harry’s memoir Spare which was an absolute bombshell throughout the Royal Family.
“We’re still talking about it now. He’s still picking up the pieces of his sort of battered relationship with his father and his brother.”
Mr Myers added: “Absolutely nobody was spared – excuse the pun – from his barbs in that book.
“I think we’ll still see the repercussions of that in the next year or two and whether Harry can sort of find a way back into the family remains to be seen.”
On whether Meghan should write her own book, PR expert Lynn Carratt told the Mirror that there “will be a time in the future when an autobiography will be relevant, but not for now”.
