THE Queen was “cruel” to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle because she feared being overshadowed by them, an expert has claimed.
Robert Lacey – author of Battle of Brothers, a book delving into the rift between Princes Harry and William – claimed the entire Royal Family exhibited “a certain cruelty” towards the couple.
“The British royal system can be very cruel, and it’s particularly cruel to the spare,” Lacey said, adding: “Harry came to realize in his teens that he was typecast as the court jester, the number two.”
Lacey claims Harry has had a problem with his second class “spare” status since he was a teen, but it was only when he met “megawatt” Meghan that he realised he was a “rock star royal” in his own right.
In reaction, senior royals doubled down on the family hierarchy, expecting Harry and Meghan to perform lower profile tasks and shunting them to one side in order to make sure they didn’t overshadow the Queen, Prince Charles, Prince William or Kate Middleton, Lacey claimed.
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