Oct. 27, 2024

The case against Meghan Markle

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Royal Expert Hugo Vickers says it can’t be a coincidence so many people appear to hate Meghan Markle saying that “moaning” Meghan has “upset everybody and lost almost all her allies, including me.”

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A Caloroga Shark, Media and.

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Lo and Welcome to Pallas Intrigue and host Mark Francis.

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Royal expert Hugo Vickers says it can't be a coincidence

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so many people appear to hate Meghan markl saying that

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moaning Meghan has upset everybody and lost almost all of

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her allies, including me Vickers agreed with Tina Brown's recent

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comments Meghan does seem to have a capacity for losing

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friends and allies all around. Vickers also shared how his

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own support for Megan waned over time. Initially, he was

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optimistic about her joining the family, noting her high profile speeches,

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including the United Nations, but over time Meghan gradually managed

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to upset everybody, including Tina Brown, and that can't be

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a coincidence. He said. He lost confidence in Meghan with

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the secrecy surrounding Archie's birth, calling it tiresome and finding

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it odd that she initially refused to disclose the god

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parents or other details. Reflecting on her role within the monarchy,

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Vickers believes Megan wasn't particularly committed to royal life. Her

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global profile skyrocketed after marrying Prince Harry, which gave her

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a platform she seemed eager to use for personal causes.

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When she expressed an interest in hitting the ground running,

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it came across to Vickers as though she misunderstood a

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royal life's essence, which he describes as complete service and devotion.

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By marrying Prince Harry, her profile went up globally enormously,

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and so people wanted to hear more about her, and

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to some extent, more from her. There was some quite

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worrying things quite early on when the four of them

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were on the platform together and she was saying, we've

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got to hit the road running. In other words, let's

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get on with me using my new role to promote

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what I'm interested in. I think she probably misunderstood quite

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a lot of things, to be quite honest, about what

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it meant to be a member of the royal family,

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which is a life of complete service and devotion. They

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work extremely hard, but they're working for us, not for themselves.

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So of course it didn't take her long to realize

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that she's got the status of being his wife, and

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I think her next plan was to move away from

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it and to capitalize on that out in America. From

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what I can see, it's not going terribly well, and

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that's what usually happens. I'm afraid I don't think she

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has good judgment. I think she had a plan, and

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now it may take a little while longer for us

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to know whether her eventual plan works out for her.

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Royal commentator Neil Shan claims Meghan is inconsolable with tears

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and at the same time outraged over Tina Brown's comments.

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Neil said, according to a source, Meghan was bereft because

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she had admired Tina Brown and in particular read her

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books simply because of her connection to Princess Diana. And

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get this, because she wanted to find a better connection

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so she could understand her husband, Prince Arian, how he

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felt about his mother. We asked our royal inside a

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Deep Crown about all this, and he had a surprisingly

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different take. According to Deep Crown, when Tina Brown says

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all of Meghan's ideas are crap, what she really means

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is all Meghan's ideas aren't my ideas. Remember this is

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the same media establishment that first crowned Meghan is the

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savior of the monarchy, then acted shocked when she actually

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tried to change things. The delicious irony is that most

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of Meghan's terrible ideas modernizing royal communications, building an independent

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brand reaching younger audiences are exactly what the institution is

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now quietly implementing. They're just doing it with better pr

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than proper British pacing, meaning glacially slow. The Palace learned

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from Meghan's mistakes while pretending they never happened, which is

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perhaps the most royal thing of all Palace intrigue. We'll

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for free at Deepcrown dot substack dot com. Megan Markle's

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solo appearances are reportedly taking a toll as she and

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Harry spend more time apart in recent weeks. A source

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tells Okay that she has really felt the strain in

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recent weeks and with all these speculations surrounding her and

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Harry and their marriage, they haven't done themselves any favors

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by doing so many separate events. But it does upset

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her that while Harry was getting praised for all of

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his appearances, she is getting criticized for what she says,

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what she wears, etc. And it brings back her full

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memories of when she was at Royal. She felt very

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bullied and scrutinized back when she was a working Royal,

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and she feels the bullying is returning. She wants people

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to remember how tough she has had it. As much

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as she tries to ignore it, sometimes it gets the

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better of her. Her Moving to Portugal could have a

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nicer side benefit for Harry and Meghan an EU passport,

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making it even easier for them to travel freely across Europe,

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but there's a catch. They'll need Portuguese citizenship to make

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that dream of reality. Obtaining Portuguese citizenship involves a mandatory

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language test. While Portugal's Golden Visa program could provide residency

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through significant investment, only, citizenship offers full EU travel rights,

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meaning the couple will need to brush up on Portuguese.

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Megan's experience with Spanish might help, but Harry's admitted language

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skills could mean some serious studying for both. Harry recently

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received a seven million pound windfall from a trust fund

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set up by his great grandmother, the Queen Mother. Financial

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experts predict he won't pay inheritance tax on this sum,

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largely due to how her estate was structured years before

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her passing. Stocklytics, an investment firm, explained, with Prince Harry

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set to receive the final installment of the Queen Mother's

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trust fund, valued at nineteen million pounds, many Brits may

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be asking how much inheritance tax he'll pay. According to

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the UK inheritance tax rules, trusts are only taxed if

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they were set up within seven years of the individual's death.

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Since the Queen Mother passed away in two thousand and two,

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her trust falls outside the seven year window, meaning the

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tax authorities won't receive anything, and there.

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