Meghan Reportedly ‘Thought She Should Be the Next Queen’ Over Kate, Book Claims—She ‘Hated’ That She Was So Far Down the Line of Succession
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There are so many books about the British royal family claiming so many different things that it’s sometimes hard to keep track of what each book says. But that doesn’t mean it’s not interesting to learn the behind-the-scenes of some particular moments, seen from the point of view of people other than the protagonists. And one particular book is shining a light into Meghan Markle’s feelings about the royalty and her place in the institution.
Tom Bower, the author of Betrayal: Power, Deceit and the Fight for the Future of the Royal Family, claimed during an episode of the Kinsey Schofield Uncensored podcast that Meghan Markle thought she should be Queen instead of Kate Middleton, per RadarOnline.
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“She never acknowledges the fact that Harry is the reason she is where she is, does she?” Schofield asked Bower.
His response? To say that an “establishment figure reported to the Queen [Elizabeth II] that Meghan thinks that once she marries into the royal family, she’s going to be God. Which is pretty hilarious, but clearly, she believed it.”
In his book Bower says that Markle didn’t understand that “The Royal Family is the nation’s family and a national obsession” and that “the royals may appear to be ordinary people, but to maintain the monarchy, they relied on the public’s willingness to treat them like God.” Not just that, he claimed that Markle “thought she should be treated as God.”
“Clearly, she thought…I’ve come to the conclusion, with the help of others on the inside, that she really thought she, rather than Kate, should be the next queen after Charles,” the author also said. “She couldn’t understand why she was better looking, and in her view, more intelligent, harder working, and everything, should be the queen,” Bower went on to add.
“And she hated the idea that she and Harry were relegated so far down the order,” he also said. Harry is fifth in line to the throne, behind his brother and his three children.
“She got everything she wanted and then knew what she wanted and couldn’t get, and that was a lot. That’s why, of course, she never intended to stay,” Bower said about Markle.
Bower’s claims are probably a little exaggerated, considering everyone knows how the line of succession works, so Markle would have been aware from the moment she met Prince Harry that he was unlikely to ever be Queen. By the time Prince Harry and Meghan Markle met, William and Kate already had two children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, so Harry was already further down in the line of succession. And, by the time they married, Prince Louis had already been born. So the chances that she and Harry would ever be King and Queen were always slim to none.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have previously rejected the claims made in Bower’s book, even referring to it as a “deranged conspiracy.”
