Meghan Markle Says the Palace Fed Negative Stories About Her to the U.K. Press
Meghan Markle is accusing Buckingham Palace of feeding negative stories about her to the British press, thereby fueling the criticism of her while protecting the rest of the royals.
In maybe the most telling Meghan & Harry trailer yet, released by Netflix today, Meghan, her lawyer, and her close friend, speak about the Palace's alleged move to use Meghan as a shield to block other family members from being attacked by the local media.
"There was a real king of war against Meghan, and I’ve certainly seen evidence that there was negative briefing from the Palace against Harry and Meghan to suit other people’s agendas," Meghan and Prince Harry's lawyer, Jenny Afia, says.
"Meg became this scapegoat for the Palace, and so they would feed stories on her, whether they were true or not, to avoid other less favorable stories being printed," the Duchess of Sussex's friend Lucy Fraser, says.
Though Prince Harry suggested as much in the last trailer from the docuseries, the accusations against the Palace had been somewhat vague until now.
"You would just see it play out. Like a story about someone in the family would pop up for a minute and they’d go, 'We gotta make that go away,'" Meghan says in the teaser, speaking of the Palace. "But there’s real estate on a website homepage. There is real estate there on a newspaper front cover, and something has to be filled in there about someone royal."
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Fraser adds that the barrage of negative articles about the breakdown of Meghan's relationship with her father, Thomas Markle, was the final straw for the duchess, who in 2020 decided to leave the royal family with husband Prince Harry by her side.
Harry & Meghan: Volume I is now available to stream on Netflix. Volume II premieres at 3 a.m. on December 15.
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