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Speaker 2: Royal expert Hugo Vickers says it can't be a coincidence
Speaker 2: so many people appear to hate Meghan markl saying that
Speaker 2: moaning Meghan has upset everybody and lost almost all of
Speaker 2: her allies, including me Vickers agreed with Tina Brown's recent
Speaker 2: comments Meghan does seem to have a capacity for losing
Speaker 2: friends and allies all around. Vickers also shared how his
Speaker 2: own support for Megan waned over time. Initially, he was
Speaker 2: optimistic about her joining the family, noting her high profile speeches,
Speaker 2: including the United Nations, but over time Meghan gradually managed
Speaker 2: to upset everybody, including Tina Brown, and that can't be
Speaker 2: a coincidence. He said. He lost confidence in Meghan with
Speaker 2: the secrecy surrounding Archie's birth, calling it tiresome and finding
Speaker 2: it odd that she initially refused to disclose the god
Speaker 2: parents or other details. Reflecting on her role within the monarchy,
Speaker 2: Vickers believes Megan wasn't particularly committed to royal life. Her
Speaker 2: global profile skyrocketed after marrying Prince Harry, which gave her
Speaker 2: a platform she seemed eager to use for personal causes.
Speaker 2: When she expressed an interest in hitting the ground running,
Speaker 2: it came across to Vickers as though she misunderstood a
Speaker 2: royal life's essence, which he describes as complete service and devotion.
Speaker 2: By marrying Prince Harry, her profile went up globally enormously,
Speaker 2: and so people wanted to hear more about her, and
Speaker 2: to some extent, more from her. There was some quite
Speaker 2: worrying things quite early on when the four of them
Speaker 2: were on the platform together and she was saying, we've
Speaker 2: got to hit the road running. In other words, let's
Speaker 2: get on with me using my new role to promote
Speaker 2: what I'm interested in. I think she probably misunderstood quite
Speaker 2: a lot of things, to be quite honest, about what
Speaker 2: it meant to be a member of the royal family,
Speaker 2: which is a life of complete service and devotion. They
Speaker 2: work extremely hard, but they're working for us, not for themselves.
Speaker 2: So of course it didn't take her long to realize
Speaker 2: that she's got the status of being his wife, and
Speaker 2: I think her next plan was to move away from
Speaker 2: it and to capitalize on that out in America. From
Speaker 2: what I can see, it's not going terribly well, and
Speaker 2: that's what usually happens. I'm afraid I don't think she
Speaker 2: has good judgment. I think she had a plan, and
Speaker 2: now it may take a little while longer for us
Speaker 2: to know whether her eventual plan works out for her.
Speaker 2: Royal commentator Neil Shan claims Meghan is inconsolable with tears
Speaker 2: and at the same time outraged over Tina Brown's comments.
Speaker 2: Neil said, according to a source, Meghan was bereft because
Speaker 2: she had admired Tina Brown and in particular read her
Speaker 2: books simply because of her connection to Princess Diana. And
Speaker 2: get this, because she wanted to find a better connection
Speaker 2: so she could understand her husband, Prince Arian, how he
Speaker 2: felt about his mother. We asked our royal inside a
Speaker 2: Deep Crown about all this, and he had a surprisingly
Speaker 2: different take. According to Deep Crown, when Tina Brown says
Speaker 2: all of Meghan's ideas are crap, what she really means
Speaker 2: is all Meghan's ideas aren't my ideas. Remember this is
Speaker 2: the same media establishment that first crowned Meghan is the
Speaker 2: savior of the monarchy, then acted shocked when she actually
Speaker 2: tried to change things. The delicious irony is that most
Speaker 2: of Meghan's terrible ideas modernizing royal communications, building an independent
Speaker 2: brand reaching younger audiences are exactly what the institution is
Speaker 2: now quietly implementing. They're just doing it with better pr
Speaker 2: than proper British pacing, meaning glacially slow. The Palace learned
Speaker 2: from Meghan's mistakes while pretending they never happened, which is
Speaker 2: perhaps the most royal thing of all Palace intrigue. We'll
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Speaker 2: for free at Deepcrown dot substack dot com. Megan Markle's
Speaker 2: solo appearances are reportedly taking a toll as she and
Speaker 2: Harry spend more time apart in recent weeks. A source
Speaker 2: tells Okay that she has really felt the strain in
Speaker 2: recent weeks and with all these speculations surrounding her and
Speaker 2: Harry and their marriage, they haven't done themselves any favors
Speaker 2: by doing so many separate events. But it does upset
Speaker 2: her that while Harry was getting praised for all of
Speaker 2: his appearances, she is getting criticized for what she says,
Speaker 2: what she wears, etc. And it brings back her full
Speaker 2: memories of when she was at Royal. She felt very
Speaker 2: bullied and scrutinized back when she was a working Royal,
Speaker 2: and she feels the bullying is returning. She wants people
Speaker 2: to remember how tough she has had it. As much
Speaker 2: as she tries to ignore it, sometimes it gets the
Speaker 2: better of her. Her Moving to Portugal could have a
Speaker 2: nicer side benefit for Harry and Meghan an EU passport,
Speaker 2: making it even easier for them to travel freely across Europe,
Speaker 2: but there's a catch. They'll need Portuguese citizenship to make
Speaker 2: that dream of reality. Obtaining Portuguese citizenship involves a mandatory
Speaker 2: language test. While Portugal's Golden Visa program could provide residency
Speaker 2: through significant investment, only, citizenship offers full EU travel rights,
Speaker 2: meaning the couple will need to brush up on Portuguese.
Speaker 2: Megan's experience with Spanish might help, but Harry's admitted language
Speaker 2: skills could mean some serious studying for both. Harry recently
Speaker 2: received a seven million pound windfall from a trust fund
Speaker 2: set up by his great grandmother, the Queen Mother. Financial
Speaker 2: experts predict he won't pay inheritance tax on this sum,
Speaker 2: largely due to how her estate was structured years before
Speaker 2: her passing. Stocklytics, an investment firm, explained, with Prince Harry
Speaker 2: set to receive the final installment of the Queen Mother's
Speaker 2: trust fund, valued at nineteen million pounds, many Brits may
Speaker 2: be asking how much inheritance tax he'll pay. According to
Speaker 2: the UK inheritance tax rules, trusts are only taxed if
Speaker 2: they were set up within seven years of the individual's death.
Speaker 2: Since the Queen Mother passed away in two thousand and two,
Speaker 2: her trust falls outside the seven year window, meaning the
Speaker 2: tax authorities won't receive anything, and there.
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