Meghan Markle struggles: How Duchess’ ’dysfunctional past’ caused rift with Royal Family
MEGHAN MARKLE has suffered deeply despite her whirlwind and fairytale rise to the Royal Family. But how has her “dysfunctional past” potentially sparked issues with her new Royal Family?
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Meghan Markle was formerly an actress, famous for her role as Rachel Zane on the hit US legal drama Suits. She met Prince Harry in 2016 and within two years the couple were married. Their son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor was welcomed into the world less than a year later in May of this year. But now one royal expert has suggested that the Duchess of Sussex’s “dysfunctional past” may have been the cause behind reports of alleged tensions with the British Royal Family.
Royal expert Dickie Arbiter, who was previously the press secretary to Prince Charles and Princess Diana, hinted Meghan’s “past” could have immediately tainted the Royal Family’s initial impressions of the newest royal.
Mr Arbiter told the Daily Mail: “Meghan has a past and a dysfunctional family.”
Then speaking about how Harry’s late mother Diana would have helped the new royal, he added: “Meghan’s been married before and worked in a business that’s pretty fickle, so Diana would have put her at ease and told her not to take any notice, that she’d had the media all her life.”
Meghan Markle began a relationship with actor and producer Trevor Engelson in 2004.
The couple were married seven years later in Jamaica in September 2011.
But the relationship did not last and concluded in a no-fault divorce in August 2013 with the cause cited as “irreconcilable differences”.
Historically, the Royal Family has maintained a distasteful attitude in regards to divorce.
The taboo of divorce dates back hundreds of years within the British monarchy, stemming from the Church of England’s position that divorce was permitted by remarriage was not.
It is for this reason that there have reportedly been tensions between the Queen and husband Prince Philip and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, who was previously married - and why there was speculation as to whether Meghan would be accepted as a spouse for Prince Harry.
Mr Arbiter added that he believed Meghan would have had a smoother migration into her royal life if her departed mother-in-law had been alive.
He told the Daily Mail: “Diana would have got on with Meghan.
“She knew the way the showbiz crowd worked and Meghan has come from that world.
“It’s very difficult to shed 15 years of being in showbiz overnight.
“It will happen in time and Diana would have been a good guide for her.”
Meghan has encountered serious backlash in recent months such as the Sussex couple’s use of a private jet, the £2.4 million renovations to Frogmore House and the insistence on privacy for Archie Harrison’s christening amid claims of excessive spending of public money.
These teething problems were likely to occur as Meghan made the adjustment from a celebrity life to a royal one.
However, the severity of the backlash has been understandable intense for the new mother.
But Mr Arbiter believes that Princess Diana could have assisted her daughter-in-law through the barrage of negative reports on her and in fact helped avoid some of the harshest blows.
He said: “I think if Diana had been around she might have been able to help Meghan in, not so much combating negative media, but being a sounding board.
“Meghan probably talks to her mother but Diana would have been that friendly face on this side of the Atlantic.”