Finding Freedom: New book reveals how royal courtiers judged Meghan Markle

Bombshell royal biography Finding Freedom, released Tuesday, reveals Meghan was the victim of nasty whispers and criticism by royal courtiers.

It’s long been rumoured Meghan Markle struggled to deal with palace courtiers when embarking on her new royal life.

Shortly after she and Prince Harry wed in 2018, Meghan had earned the scathing tabloid nickname “Duchess Difficult” as whispers surrounding her modern approach to royal life rubbing royal staff the wrong way swirled.

But according to new royal biography Finding Freedom, which is brimming with juicy details about Harry and Meghan’s journey from senior members of the royal family to living independently in LA, even before the wedding, members of the palace team simply didn’t like Meghan for reasons beyond her control.

Co-author of Finding Freedom, Omid Scobie, a royal reporter who penned the bombshell release along with Carolyn Durand, added that racism played a huge part in “Megxit” in an interview on Tuesday.

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Royal courtiers were critical of Meghan from the moment they met her, according to new book. Picture: AAP Image.

According to Finding Freedom, at least one “high-ranking courtier” was overheard telling another of Meghan, “There’s just something about her I don’t trust,” while an unnamed member of the family referred to her as “Harry’s showgirl,” which infuriated Harry, the book claimed.

It also described palace aides as biased against her American background, with her “matter-of-fact tone” labelled “abrasive” and ambition seen as overconfident.

One courtier who reporteldy liked Meghan described her as “a Californian who believes she can change the world”.

A member of the royal family referred to Meghan as “Harry’s showgirl”, the book claims. Picture: Getty Images.

The book quoted an anonymous source as saying, “This is a script that wrote itself as soon as you knew an American actress was coming into the royal family.

“Not only is she American, she’s a Californian who believes she can change the world,” it read.

“She was an adult in her mid-30s when she met Harry, at a point when she had created her own brand, had her own website and was conducting her own deals.”

“That’s the way in America,” the book quotes the anonymous source. “In Britain, people look at that and go, ‘Who do you think you are?’”

Finding Freedom claims palace courtiers saw Meghan as “a Californian who believed she could change the world”. Picture: AFP.

The authors went on to describe a disturbing pattern of racist comments on social media aimed at Meghan, who is the first bi-racial American to marry into the British royal family.

At one point, the book revealed, a picture of Meghan wearing black nail polish at the British Fashion Council awards had to be taken down from the council’s Instagram because of racist comments. “It was open season on Meghan,” Scobie and Durand wrote.

Finding Freedom: Harry, Meghan, and the Making of a Modern Royal Family by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand. Picture: Supplied.

In an interview on Good Morning America following the book’s hotly-anticipated release on Tuesday,Omid Scobie opened up about the couple’s move to the US, explaining that racism “definitely played a role”.

“In terms of ticking those boxes that may ruffle feathers within an ancient institution such as that of the monarchy, she had really ticked all of them,” he said of Meghan, adding: “Race did play a role.”

Scobie suggests that Meghan never felt comfortable within the royal family – and that she was never made to feel as though she was entirely welcome.

“I myself have also had moments as a bi-racial royal correspondent within the institution,” he added.

Explosive new book about Harry and Meghan’s royal exit. @scobie, co-author of #FindingFreedom, gives our @DebRobertsABC an inside look at the couple’s side of the story. https://t.co/X8P82x9Dsv pic.twitter.com/L9fkvvAPGA

— Good Morning America (@GMA) August 10, 2020

“I’ll never forget the moment an aide, or a senior aide close to the Queen, said to me, “I never would have expected you to speak like that,” and that level of ignorance I think perhaps made it very difficult for Meghan.”

His comments come just as Prince Harry passionately addressed the need for more diversity in a candid new virtual interview for a civil rights organisation, saying it will take “every single person on the planet” to defeat racism

Harry, 35, who is currently living in Tyler Perry’s $27 million mansion in Beverly Hills with Meghan, 38, and their son Archie, one, is set to speak about the topic in further detail in a new interview for the Colour of Change initiative.

Harry’s decision to speak so publicly about the battle against racism is all part of what Scobie recently described as his ‘journey to wokeness’, which, the author says, was guided by Meghan.