Meghan Did Research Prince Harry and the Royal Family Same Way She ‘Checks Out the Menu Before Going to a Restaurant,’ Sources Say
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are making headlines again and not for any reasons they want. The Duke of Sussex and his wife are the subject of a new bombshell feature in Vanity Fair.
The publication has spoken to people in the Sussexes’ camp, former employees, neighbors, and other sources close to the couple who have brought forth some fresh allegations. A few of those include Meghan’s podcast staffers who “needed therapy” after working with her and Harry not understanding the impact of his memoir Spare. Some old claims the pair have made in the past have also come up again with those who talked to the publication laying out why Meghan and Harry are not believable.
One thing Meghan has always said is that she didn’t know about Harry and his family before they started dating. A lot of fans and royal watchers have always found that hard to believe, well turns out so have people close to the duchess.
Meghan’s claim she didn’t research or know much about Prince Harry before they got together
Many fans were surprised when during her joint interview with Harry, Meghan said she didn’t know much about the prince or the royal family.
During that interview, the former Suits star claimed that she didn’t have an “understanding of the royal family” and “didn’t know much about Harry.” Meghan added that although she “didn’t know a lot about him” she didn’t do any research on the duke and just “learned everything about him and his family through him as opposed to different news stories or tabloids.”
When she was asked about that again during the Sussexes’ bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, the duchess doubled down.
The former talk show host asked: “If you’re going to marry a royal, then you would do research about what that would mean?” To which Meghan replied: “Well, I didn’t do any research about what that would mean … I’d never looked up my husband online. I just didn’t feel a need to because everything that I needed to know, he was sharing with me, right? Everything that we thought I needed to know, he was telling me.”
Why many have struggled to believe Meghan knew so little about the prince and his family
But sources who know Meghan told Vanity Fair that they still struggle to believe she knew very little about Prince Harry and the royal family before they started dating. Plenty of royal watchers, commentators, and the pair’s Montecito neighbors do too.
Cultural commentator and fellow Montecito resident Tom Fitzgerald said: “Meghan is the type of woman who would check a menu out online before going to a restaurant to pick what she was going to eat. So the idea that she didn’t know she was supposed to curtsy for the queen, I just didn’t find it particularly believable, because [based on] everything she ever told us about herself, I cannot imagine that she went into meeting the royal family completely cold, with no research whatsoever.”
Tina Brown, who is the former editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair and was also a close confidant of the late Princess Diana, doesn’t believe for a second that Meghan didn’t Google Harry and do a good amount of research on his family.
“I don’t believe her on that one. Everybody Googles people,” Brown said during an episode of The New York Times‘ Sway podcast with Kara Swisher, adding, “When I talked to all the people she worked with at Suits, one thing that she was really known for was getting notes about her role. She wanted to know everything about what she had to do with that part. She was studying up.
“Why would she take on the biggest role of her life, which had such incredible constitutional implications and such a kind of lifetime of, you know, very clear choices ahead of her, and not, as she said, spend any time researching what the role was? … That was disingenuous. It would seem to me if that’s true, reprehensible, quite honestly. Because it’s a serious thing to marry into that family.”
