Meghan Markle’s rocky tenure as a working royal may have stemmed from a culture clash with palace aides, according to a veteran royal correspondent who covered her time as a working royal. Simon Vigar, one of Britain’s longest-serving royal correspondents, examines those tensions in his new book, “The Four Wives of Windsor.”

Culture Clash

Vigar told Fox News Digital that there was a culture clash between Meghan and the palace aides. “I think it’s a crying shame. It was avoidable, and egos got in the way on both sides. I think she thought that there would be more control over events, public events, than there was,” he said.

Meghan, a former American actress who starred in the legal drama “Suits,” became the Duchess of Sussex when she married Prince Harry in 2018. The palace announced Meghan’s pregnancy shortly after the couple arrived in Sydney for their royal tour that October. Vigar covered the royal tour and wrote that it exposed some of the first significant cracks in Meghan’s role as a working royal.

Press Scrutiny

Vigar argued that Meghan didn’t just marry a prince. She also entered an institution with its own rules, rhythms, and intense press scrutiny — a sharp contrast with Hollywood, where publicists can exert far more control over appearances, interviews, and publicity. “The press team at Kensington Palace is pretty small, let’s say, compared to a movie premiere in Hollywood or a movie premiere in London,” he explained.

According to Vigar, Meghan was accustomed to a public life where everything was micromanaged in a far more controlled environment. “Those levels of Hollywood control-freakery, as courtiers say, are incompatible with the public service role of the monarchy,” he wrote.

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