The Queen gave Meghan Markle help from senior staff, report says
- Entertainment
- March 11, 2021
Buckingham Palace gave Meghan Markle the Queen’s most senior staff to fill in as her “mentors” prior to getting hitched to Prince Harry, as indicated by a report, repudiating her case that she didn’t get help changing into the royal family.
“It is very disingenuous to make such a sweeping generalization,” a source told the Daily Mail. “There was a brilliant team of very experienced and loyal aides to help them. Sadly, she and Harry were willing to listen to no one. And that is the honest truth.”
Indeed, Queen Elizabeth II enrolled her most trusted adviser, Samantha Cohen, to assist Meghan with setting up her wedding and for royal life, sources told the British tabloid.
Cohen was additionally answerable for giving the previous actress regular tutoring sessions on everything from royal etiquette to diplomatic protocol at Kensington Palace.
“The Queen gave her Sam, her most trusted, her safest set of hands,” the source told the Mail.
“Yet Meghan told Oprah Winfrey that while the Queen had personally been ‘wonderful,’ she hadn’t received any guidance on how to behave as a royal – leaving her forced to Google the national anthem,” the insider added.
In the hazardous interview that originally broadcasted on CBS Sunday night, Markle claimed she got no help leading up to her wedding, and surprisingly needed to Google the British public song of devotion to mix in with the regal family.
“Unlike what you see in the movies, there’s no class on how to speak, how to cross your legs, how to be royal,” Markle told Winfrey. “There was none of that training that might exist for other members of the family. That was not something that was offered to me.”
Markle likewise uncovered the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew’s ex-wife, shown her how to curtsy prior to meeting Her Majesty for the first time.
The Duchess of Sussex likewise made worldwide headlines when she affirmed somebody in the illustrious family expressed “concerns” to Harry about “how dark” their son Archie’s skin would be. Markle is biracial.
On Tuesday, the Queen released an explanation saying, “The whole family is saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for Harry and Meghan.”
“The issues raised, particularly that of race, are concerning. Whilst some recollections may vary, they are taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately,” the Queen added. “Harry, Meghan and Archie will always be much loved family members.”