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Meghan Markle Slammed by Queen Elizabeth's Childhood Friend for Being Naive About the Royal Family

Queen Elizabeth's childhood friend Lady Glenconner believes Meghan Markle was unprepared for royal life.

Queen Elizabeth's childhood friend Lady Glenconner revealed one of Meghan Markle's greatest struggles when becoming a duchess, and it seems like she has no remorse for her.

Glenconner claimed the former blogger hoped to be “riding around in a golden coach.”

“I think the thing about Meghan was, she had no idea what was expected of her really,” Glenconner said on the “Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth” podcast on Thursday, October 19.

“I think she just thought it was sort of like being another actress, you know," she added.

The socialite admitted that being a member of The Firm is “extremely boring" because you're “meeting hundreds of thousands of people that you’re never going to meet again."

“I think it was very sad, and I feel very sad for Harry,” she continued.

Elizabeth's close circle discussed how heartbroken she was after the Sussexes moved to the U.S.

“For the last years of her life, certainly from when her husband [Prince Philip] died, the Queen was in a lot of pain,” the anonymous pal told an outlet.

Meghan and Prince Harry famously left the monarchy in 2020, and they have gone on to use their personal drama for profit, and the confidant disclosed that Harry and Meghan's decision to publicize their family drama made the queen's final moments difficult.

“That was the time for Harry and Meghan to bite their tongue,” the insider explained. “Instead they produced this unending stream of incredibly hurtful films and interviews attacking her life’s work."

“For Harry to announce he was writing a memoir when his grandmother was not just recently widowed but actually dying herself, as he must have known she was — well, the cruelty of it takes the breath away," the source noted.

Glenconnor's opinion of Meghan aligns with the couple's various tell-all projects, and in Harry's memoir, Spare, he shared an anecdote that highlighted just how little Meghan knew about the crown.

“Just whatever you do, don't talk over her,” Andrew and Sarah Ferguson told the duchess.

“After a moment, Meg asked me something about the Queen's assistant," Harry recalled. “That man holding the purse. The man who walked her to the door. That wasn't her assistant. That was her second son, Andrew. She definitely hadn't Googled us.”

During the couple's 2021 conversation with Oprah Winfrey, Meghan blamed her American upbringing for her lack of awareness and understanding of the monarchy as an institution.

"I would say I went into it naively because I didn’t grow up knowing much about the royal family," the mom-of-two confessed. "It wasn’t part of something that was part of [the] conversation at home."

"It wasn’t something that we followed. My mom even said to me a couple of months ago, ‘Did Diana ever do an interview?’ Now I can say. ‘Yes, a very famous one,' but my mom does know that," she added.

             

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Although Harry grew up behind palace gates, Meghan implied she wasn't briefed on her new reality.

"We thought a lot about what we thought it might be. I didn’t fully understand what the job was: What does it mean to be a working royal? What do you do? What does that mean? He and I were very aligned on our cause-driven work, that was part of our initial connection," Meghan shared.

"But there was no way to understand what the day-to-day was going to be like, and it’s so different because I didn’t romanticize any element of it," she concluded.

Elizabeth's friends spoke to The Daily Beast.