The Duke and Duchess of Drama! Book reveals Harry and Meghan’s ‘mutual addiction’
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's 2018 wedding was nothing short of a fairytale, but a new book has claimed that there was a storm of temper tantrums and shouting matches behind the scenes.
Renowned journalist Tina Brown has made a series of bombshell allegations in her new book titled 'The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor — The Truth and the Turmoil' which is out Tuesday, April 26. The author cited palace sources reporting that "the preparation for the Sussex union was all drama, all the time," adding, "Meghan’s MO was seen as revving up Harry when she sensed any obstruction.”
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As noted by Page Six, no one can forget Meghan's now-infamous spat between Angela Kelly, the Queen's personal dresser and confidant, over which tiara the bride would get to wear. Harry subsequently declared, "Whatever Meghan wants, Meghan gets.” Then there was the Duchess's alleged altercation with future sister-in-law Catherine "Kate" Middleton over tights for the flower girls. According to Brown, a palace insider revealed that there “was a lot of raging. In-person shouting in front of other members of staff, basically in front of too many people, which is why it all started to come out … “
The journalist wrote that "even before the engagement, [Meghan] seemed to think that everyone in the shared office of William, Kate, and Harry was now hers to call in. What the Palace saw as her willful blindness to institutional culture was a direct clash with Meghan’s worldview.” Brown continued, “Harry, who had always chafed at the hierarchy himself, was the last person to tell her to slow down. They were both now drunk on a shared fantasy of being the instruments of global transformation, who once married, would operate in the celebrity stratosphere once inhabited by Princess Diana. Meghan, couldn’t, and wouldn’t, bide her time to get there.”
Meanwhile, royal courtiers were not used to the way Meghan treated them. According to Brown, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were “allegedly shocked by the way Meghan treated their shared employees. A typically uncomfortable incident had taken place during the rollout of the wedding plans when I was told Meghan yelled at a junior employee who held an announcement back because it clashed with something scheduled with the household of another senior royal.” While an insider declined to call it "bullying behavior," they said they'd "certainly never heard of a member of the Royal Family talking like that to a member of the staff.”
The Sussexes' first royal tour to Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji in October 2018, garnered glowing reviews, but the couple wasn't happy, according to Brown. “She apparently hated every second of it. She found the itinerary of engagements ‘pointless,’ a former Palace employee told me.” The 'Suits' actress' “aggrieved mood” affected her husband's demeanor, who became “grumpy” and “glowering” with reporters and photographers he was once friendly with. While Harry could have helped his American wife adopt the palace culture, Brown writes he "didn't want to" do that. "Their new complicity required Meghan to fight all the norms he had kicked against for so long. She was now his comrade in arms. An aide described their confrontational stance to me as a mutual ‘addiction to drama'.”
Harry and Meghan announced they were quitting the royal family in January 2020, but getting their way left them "stunned," according to Brown. “They thought … it would force the Royal Family to respond by saying … ‘Okay, Harry and Meghan, what do you want? We’re going to give you want,'” the author quoted an insider as saying. But "The Firm" shut the door on them instead. A former adviser told Brown, “Harry and Meghan were really stunned.”