Susie O’Brien: Meghan Markle’s untruths are piling up

Meghan Markle has had to confront one very big inconvenient truth this week, which destroys many of her claims of poor treatment.

WHAT a difference a week makes.

On August 29, Meghan Markle’s latest bombshell interview hit the press.

It was titled: “Meghan of Montecito. She’s left the Firm behind. Harry’s found a polo team in Santa Barbara. Now she’s ready for her next act”.

Draping herself in a familiar cloak of victimhood and spouting self-serving dribble, Meghan says in the article that “just by existing, we were upsetting the dynamic of the hierarchy”.

She’s asked if she’s ready to forgive her family-in-law for the way she’s been treated – not the way she’s treated them.

Her answer is designed to remind the Firm of the power she has, and is willing to use. She notes that she now knows she can “say anything”.

And then something wholly expected happened just nine days later.

Meghan’s ill 96-year-old grandmother-in-law, The Queen, died. It changed everything.

Everything.

Prince Harry and Meghan at Windsor Castle. Picture: Getty Images

Overnight Meghan was back in the shadow of the Firm, playing second-fiddle to her sister-in-law once again.

Returning like a dog to vomit, she was back on the royal hustings, doing a walk-about with members of the royal family she’s bitched about publicly.

Humbled, humiliated and back in pantyhose (it was the Queen’s wishes), Meghan found herself right back where she started.

Too bad that just nine days earlier her bitchy confessional centred around herself as the humanitarian hero who has “taken a hardship and turned it into a content”.

Did this self-proclaimed girl-boss feminist hero not envision a time when she’d be back on British soil and sharing tea with those she’d accused of racism and discrimination?

Can you hear that crowing?

It’s roosters coming home to roost.

Meghan Markle has had to confront one very big inconvenient truth this week, which destroys many of her claims of poor treatment.

Meghan told Oprah – and 17 million viewers – last year her children would not be offered royal titles because of the colour of her skin.

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As she said back then, the royal family “didn’t want Archie to have a prince title”.

And yet her children will almost certainly end up Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet because their grandfather is now king.

The titles have not been formally announced, with the palace saying the official list of succession and titles will be updated “when we get information”.

However, there has been no suggestion of the children not having the titles – they are theirs if their parents choose it.

If Meghan was true to her oft-stated egalitarian principles, she would reject the titles, just as she and Prince Harry should reject theirs. They should be in or out.

If they want to keep their titles, then they should move back to England and spend their days cutting ribbons and planting trees with silly little silver shovels.

If they don’t want to do their duty, then they should drop their titles.

But they want both – they want to play royal and pocket the proceeds, but not do the work.

Their Sussex Royal website explains how they see their role. Supporting Community. Serving the Monarchy. Strengthening the Commonwealth.

It should read: Supporting ourselves. Lining our pockets. Offending our family.

Here’s one more very inconvenient truth: all of the hardship and misery is of Meghan’s own making.

A professional victim, she is always on the lookout for opportunities to show how she’s been judged for her race, nationality, outspoken views, or feminism. Sure, life as a senior royal wouldn’t be easy, but there are definite upsides.

By virtue of her marriage, Meghan – a mid-level actress and former Deal or No Deal suitcase girl - was handed unimaginable riches, celebrity and power.

But it wasn’t enough for the whiny Duchess of Sham who wasn’t the centre of universe and had to follow other people’s rules.

The untruths are piling up, like her claim that the South Africans put her on the same footing as Nelson Mandela. Or the fire in her son’s nursery that turned out to be a heater that wasn’t unplugged. Or the suggestion in The Cut that she wouldn’t be given the freedom to take her kids to preschool in the UK without being hounded by the media.

Or the big one – the suggestion that the UK press had called her children the N-word, for which there is absolutely no evidence.

So it’s not Meghan’s “existence” that’s the problem, it’s her willingness to lie and bend the truth to suit her victimhood narrative.

For two years, Meghan has said anything she likes and now she must pay the price for foolishness and self-conceit. If this week has shown anything, it’s that the Duchess of Sussex will never be able to leave the Firm she’s done her best to destroy.