Tom Quinn, writer of 'Gilded Youth,' described how the Duchess of Sussex considered Princess Diana as a 'kindred spirit'.
Meghan Markle allegedly "hated being a second-rate princess" earlier than she made her royal exit with Prince Harry.
The declare was once made by a Kensington Palace staffer "who remembered Meghan well" in a new e book written through Tom Quinn titled "Gilded Youth: An Intimate History of Growing Up in the Royal Family." It facets exclusive testimony from palace personnel with historical sources, as nicely as royal insiders. It objectives to take a look at the common upbringing of the British royal household and how it has impacted them over the years.
A Buckingham Palace spokesperson did no longer immediately reply to Fox News Digital’s request for comment concerning Quinn’s book. However, a spokesperson formerly instructed Fox News Digital that the palace does not commonly remark "on such books."
Quinn advised Fox News Digital that the former American actress identified with Princess Diana, a member of the royal family who used to be dealt with unfairly by means of the press and then hounded through paparazzi until her tragic death in 1997 at age 36.
"It’s very handy to see why Meghan would discover with Diana because, in a sense, Diana was once additionally a rebellion inside the royal family," Quinn explained. "Their views of the royal family coincide. They’re very similar. Diana hated all that stuffiness. She didn’t like the pheasant shooting that she used to be dragged along to. And it’s interesting due to the fact Diana grew up in that world. She grew up on an considerable estate. The Spencers are one of the most aristocratic families in the U.K. They’ve married into the royal family for over 500-600 years. But I assume when Meghan thinks of Diana, she sees a kindred spirit."
According to Quinn’s book, the palace staffer described the 41-year-old as "a very nice, smiley, super-positive person." However, as anyone who "always felt in control of her personal destiny" she discovered herself in an group "she couldn’t influence."
"She was dazzled through the global fame that being a princess would bring, however she used to be taken aback through the palace protocol and by way of the reality that she used to be now not and by no means ought to be first in the pecking order," the staffer alleged, as quoted in Quinn's book. "She hated the constraints and the rules; she hated being a second-rate princess – second to Catherine Middleton, I mean. She thought she would be residing in Windsor Castle, for example, and simply couldn’t accept as true with it when she and Harry were given Nottingham Cottage on the grounds of Kensington Palace."
Markle, a superstar on the prison drama "Suits," grew to be the Duchess of Sussex when she married the British prince, 38, in 2018.
Six months after their royal wedding, it was once revealed that the couple would set up a home at Frogmore Cottage. A Buckingham Palace assertion proven that the couple had usual the present from Queen Elizabeth II.
At the time, the Sussexes had been dwelling in Nottingham Cottage, or "Nott Cott." It regarded in the couple’s Netflix documentary that premiered in December. In the six-part docuseries, Markle recalled how the modest two-bedroom residence took Oprah Winfrey via surprise.
"We were residing on palace grounds," stated Markle. "Kensington Palace sounds very regal – of course, it does, it says ‘palace’ in the name, however Nottingham Cottage was once a small [house]."
The staffer stated that Markle used to be in for a rude awakening when she became a member of the royal family.
"She hated the reality that she had to do what she was informed and go the place she was instructed in the endless, and to a large extent pointless royal round," the supply alleged. "I don’t think in the total of history there was once ever a greater divide between what anybody anticipated when they became a member of the royal household and what they found it was certainly like. She was massively disappointed. She was once a international superstar but was being informed what she ought to and should not do, what she should and ought to no longer say. She hated it."
The source stated that Markle "quickly realized that she was treated by the royal institution and the aristocratic advisers in a slightly condescending way because she used to be no longer a blood royal."
Quinn stated that like Markle, Diana "didn’t like all the regulations you had to obey." When the press began focused on Markle, it only demonstrated her emotions that "she was very tons like Diana."
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