June 5, 2025
Twerk-Gate Erupts: Meghan’s Dance Video Melts the Internet (and Possibly Your Eyeballs)
In a surprise move, Meghan Markle posted a never-before-seen video of herself—nine months pregnant—twerking in a hospital room to The Baby Momma Dance, with Prince Harry cheerfully bouncing beside her. Critics are not impressed. Is this a joyful glimpse into their private lives or a complete collapse of the “we want privacy” narrative? We break down the brutal social media backlash, conspiracy theories about her pregnancy, and commentary from royal experts who can’t believe what they’re seeing. Plus, Deep Crown weighs in: has Harry completely lost the plot? You’ll never look at a hospital gown—or flamingo dance—the same way again.
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Calorogus Shark Media. Hello and welcome to a special breaking
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news bonus episode of Palace Intrigue. As the Royals have
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the whole world. It's talking again. Whatever you do if
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someone sends you a video of Meghan Michael today, do
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not watch it, as you will be unable to unsee it,
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and Mike seek to rinse out your eyes and perhaps
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seek out a hypnotist. The Duchess of Sussex's once again
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stirred headlines at this time for dancing. Meghan Michael, dubbed
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the Duchess of Privacy by commentator Sarah Vine, has been
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heavily criticized for uploading a home video of herself and
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Prince Harry dancing to the viral hit the Baby Mama
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Dance while in hospital before the birth of their daughter,
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Princess Lilibet. The video, posted to her official Instagram account,
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shows Megan heavily pregnant, twerking and laughings. Prince Harry gamely
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bounces along beside her, a joyful, candid moment to some,
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but to others a baffling contradiction. Vine writes in The
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Daily Mail, the Duchess of Privacy herself twerking like some
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vulgar commoner while Prince Harry Dad dances around her like
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an over excited flamingo doing an elaborate courtship dance. It
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can't be real, can it not something you share with
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the entire world? Surely, especially when you know privacy. At
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the time of Lilibet's birth in June twenty twenty one,
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the baby Mamma dance had become a viral sensation on TikTok,
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with expectant mothers using it as a lighthearted celebration of
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impending motherhood. Meghan's entry into the trend, albeit years later,
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appeared to have missed the mark with many. Social media
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response was swift and brutal. One social media user suggested
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something involving bleach, but we recommend against the bleach solution.
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Another declared, this is the most desperate and that's a
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critical thing I have ever seen from two people who
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wanted to protect their kids from social media and wanted privacy.
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A third asked, perhaps only half jokingly, whether the video
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was actually filmed last week. One user suggested Megan should
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have acted princessy instead of cringe, while another simply deemed
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the clip mortifying. Vine questioned whether the video was an
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attempt to reclaim the narrative, or perhaps she put it
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a kooky display of twerking designed to endear her to
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the masses. She concluded with a blunt assessment, it's hard
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to see what she wants to achieve, not just because
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it's crass and vulgar, but also because it really does
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remove any remaining leg she and the Prince might have
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had to stand on in terms of protecting their privacy.
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Royal expert Whichard Fitzwilliams told The Express, when I first
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saw the video of a heavily pregnant Megan and Harry Twerking,
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I thought her Instagram account had been hacked and that
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this was a spoof. It was apparently taken in a
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labor ward four years ago. It is, of course, entirely
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up to Megan what she boasts. It is, however, our
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prerogative to judge. Behind the scenes here at Palace Intrigue,
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we at first thought it was a fake generated by AI.
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Of course, no moment in Sussex Land is complete without
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the arrival of the conspiracy theorists. Within hours of Megan
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Markel's hospital dance video being posted online, Sleuth's had begun
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dissecting the footage frame by frame, offering a litany of
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increasingly wild and wholly unstamtiated claims. Chief among them the
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persistent and long debunked rumor that Megan faked her pregnancy
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and wore a prosthetic belly, often referred to in such
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circles as a moon bump. Several commenters took to social
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media to argue, again without any credible evidence, that her
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baby bump appeared too high or the wrong shape to
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be genuine. Others insisted that Megan's energetic dancing at what
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was presumed to be nine months pregnant defined biological plausibility,
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dubbing her either superhuman or not pregnant at all. Some
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even suggested the video provided proof of a surrogate, alleging
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that the medical equipment visible in the background was not
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consistent with a labour ward, an assertion that medical professionals
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and rational observers would likely dismiss out of hand. Others
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claimed that Megan could not possibly have been in a
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genuine hospital setting because she was wearing her own clothes
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and still had on jewelry. According to these self appointed experts,
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a woman in active labor especially one being induced would
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be dressed in a hospital gown and have had all
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the adornments removed. Some took it further, suggesting that Meghan's
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apparent lack of an IV drip indicated she was not
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being induced at all. One individual, claiming to be a
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nurse insisted she would have had a canula inserted into
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her hand, while another claimed she would have not been
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allowed to remain in her own clothing had she been
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undergoing medical procedures. Despite the deeply personal nature of the
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footage and its apparent intention to offer a lighthearted look
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at a family milestone, the clip has instead become further
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fuel for the more conspiratorial corners of the Internet. A
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reminder perhaps that in the world of Sussex's no image
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is ever just a moment. Royal insider Deep Crown points out,
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is this not exactly what Harry fled to avoid? Will
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remind DC that the privacy minded Harry put out a
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book called Spare, in which he wrote, nothing but joy
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and love In that room we ate and ate, and
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then did the baby mama dance around the hospital room?
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that all with your subscription, and we really appreciate your
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support behind the scenes here at Palace Intrigue. Megan is
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also been criticized for releasing a photograph of Princess Lilibet
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to mark her fourth birthday, in which Lilibet's face is
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slightly obscured by her mother's hair, yet still visible enough
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to provoke a comment from Royal observers. Angel Eleven, a
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royal biographer and frequent critic of the Sussexes, took to
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social media to voice her disapproval, saying they wanted privacy
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and to keep their children out of focus, and certainly
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wouldn't show their daughter's face only slightly hidden by her
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mother's hair. It's up to them or just her, but
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they have broken their own rules. Royal insider Deep Crown added,
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Harry's position has become rather untenable, hasn't it. One cannot
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credibly claim to have fled Britain to protect one's children
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from media intrusion and proceed to photograph them for social
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media consumption. The boy who once walked behind his mother's coffin,
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who genuinely understood the corrosive nature of press attention, now
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seems to have forgotten his own hard learned lessons. This
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isn't about privacy, It's about control of the narrative. Harry
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wants to be both the protective father and the content creator,
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which strikes those of us who knew him in his
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palace days as deeply contradictory. I'm told his father finds
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this particular evolution rather sad that Harry, we once knew,
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would have kept that photograph in a private album, not
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posted for global consumption. Assuming the Duchess had even told
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him beforehand. A normal episode of Palace Intrigue went out
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this morning at the usual time, and there'll be one
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more bonus episode later today as Deep Crown wanted to
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address the story. Then we'll be back in the morning
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