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Meghan Markle's 'Hollywood Background Would Have Hit The Royal Family Like A Hurricane,' Expert Says

Meghan Markle's 'Hollywood background would have hit the royal family like a hurricane,' an expert says.

When Meghan Markle joined the royal family, her showbiz background might have put off the brood.

“I think Meghan’s Hollywood background would have hit the royal family like a hurricane," royal commentator Ashley Pearson said in the 2021 documentary Secrets Of The Royal — The Markles vs. The Monarchy.

Although Meghan — who appeared on Suits for several years — was welcomed by Harry's relatives, things soon took a turn for the worse.

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So much so, the brunette beauty admitted that she grappled with suicidal thoughts while living at the palace.

"I just didn’t see a solution, I don’t understand how all of this is being churned out – again, I wasn’t seeing it, but it’s worse when you see it through your mom, friends," she told Oprah Winfrey on March 7. "It was all happening because I was breathing. Look, I was really ashamed to say it at the time and ashamed to have to admit to [Prince] Harry especially because I know how much loss he’s suffered, but I knew that if I didn’t say it, that I would do it and I just didn’t – I didn’t want to be alive anymore."

"That was a very clear and real and frightening constant thought. I remember how he just cradled me. I went to the institution and I said that I needed to go somewhere to get help, I had never felt this way before, I was told it wouldn’t be good for the institution," she said, clarifying the institution is a group of several people.

Meghan, 40, and Harry, 36, ended up moving to California, where they are raising their two kids, Lilibet Diana and Archie.

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“Making this move is really scary, like at every possible opportunity the forces that were working against us tried to make it impossible," he said. “Did I expect to find ourselves in this situation so quickly? No. I think we’ve done a really good job. I have no regrets, it’s incredibly sad, but I have no regrets at all because now I’m in a place where I feel like I should have been four years ago.”