Growing up in the “sun on the Pacific”, the Duchess of Sussex found the “class-ridden” world of life as a working royal “unappealing,” the royal biographer claimed.
The highly anticipated biography Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors by royal writer Tom Bower is released next week.
Prior to the book, Mr Bower released extracts about the two royals.
In the Sunday Times, he spoke about Meghan’s time in the palace.
He said: “Meghan seemed isolated, vulnerable and stifled by convention.
“Apparently unwilling to accept that, unlike Hollywood, no one counted the receipts of the crowd she attracted, she was fighting a battle for which she was not fit.
“With contempt for the palace’s explanation that the media attack would backfire on her, she adopted Hollywood’s rulebook and took the initiative.”
The realization likely contributed to Harry and Meghan’s departure from their royal roles and subsequent move to the US in 2020.
Now residing in Montecito, California, the couple themselves are making waves with multi-million pound deals with Netflix and Spotify.
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Bower said Meghan rejected the proposal to reconcile with her estranged father, Thomas Markle, for fear she would embarrass the firm.
He wrote, “Meghan rejected the suggestion.
He reported her, saying: “It was completely unrealistic to think that I could fly discreetly to Mexico, arrive at his doorstep unannounced (because I didn’t have secure communication with my father), to a location and whereabouts I never had. visited or known, in a small frontier town…and somehow I hope to be able to talk privately with my father without causing a frenzy of media attention and interference that could embarrass the royal family even more.
Mr Bower noted: “Her father’s phone number was unchanged. They were able to meet discreetly in Los Angeles. The Queen probably didn’t know that Meghan had never visited her father in Rosarito”.
Meghan reportedly admitted she was “particularly sensitive” about the matter, admitting that “I had married into the family very recently and was eager to please”.
The royal expert said: “Harry, in turn, was concerned that Meghan needed protection. He sympathized with her distaste for the palace’s keen sense of reverence and hierarchy”.
He said Meghan said during a visit to Castle Mey that the family “fundamentally don’t understand.”
Bower wrote: “‘She’ included Camilla, who, having nothing in common with Meghan, was apprehensive about Harry’s future”.