QEII saw Meghan as an ‘opportunist’ & was ‘on to her from the start’

Another day, another royal book with unhinged stories about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. What’s crazy is that almost all of the “royal books” released this year are supposedly about other royal figures. But biographers know that the Sussex tax must be paid, and they also know that no one really gives a sh-t about the left-behinds. At least, no one cares enough about the left-behinds to buy a book solely about Prince William, Kate Middleton, Queen Elizabeth or King Charles without some juicy, bonkers stories about how much every royal despised then-Meghan Markle on sight and treated her like sh-t from the very beginning. So much for “we welcomed Meghan with open arms” and “we gave Meghan everything she needed to succeed.”

Queen Elizabeth II had concerns about her grandson Prince Harry’s future wife Meghan Markle from the beginning, according to a new book.

In veteran political reporter Susan Page’s upcoming book, The Queen and Her Presidents: The Hidden Hand That Shaped History, a palace aide claimed that the late monarch grew skeptical of the American actress early on, viewing her as calculated and skilled at shaping her public image.

“Her Majesty had become wary of Meghan as an opportunist — was ‘on to her from the start,’ the aide said — and one with public relations skills that left the palace’s outdated press operation in the dust,” Page wrote.

Fox News Digital has reached out to Harry and Markle’s representatives for comment.

In “The Queen and Her Presidents: The Hidden Hand That Shaped History,” Page wrote, “A senior royal aide said Harry’s bitterness toward the palace staff and his own family stemmed in part from his resentment over being treated as a ‘lesser royal’ than William — perhaps inevitable, given that his brother was the heir apparent.”

According to the book, the aide said that “Harry complained that he was put in a bedroom ‘miles away’ from William’s posher surroundings.”

Page’s book also revealed that palace staff harbored doubts about Harry’s true parentage. Harry has long-faced rumors that he is not King Charles III’s son — instead linking him to Diana’s lover James Hewitt — though the claims have been repeatedly denied and contradicted by the timeline.

“Some staff openly speculated about whether Harry was in fact Charles’s biological son — the unsubstantiated gossip that the red-haired royal was the product of an affair between Princess Diana and the red-haired Calvary officer James Hewitt,” Page wrote.

[From Fox News]

Do I think that QEII saw Meghan as an “opportunist”? No. I don’t. I think QEII saw Meghan as an interesting, intelligent woman who would be a good asset to a modern monarchy. I think everyone around QEII freaked the f–k out as soon as Meghan arrived on the scene though. It’s not that QEII “became wary of Meghan as an opportunist,” it’s that courtiers and palace spin masters were trying to force that narrative of “opportunist/American/golddigger Meghan.” And one of the reasons why they were freaking out is because Meghan had “public relations skills that left the palace’s outdated press operation in the dust.” They were so used to “promises to be keen” and “princess knows-her-place” and “Sophie who??” that they couldn’t fathom a well-educated 30-something American woman who could speak in full sentences and knew how to navigate tricky situations and learn on the fly.

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