Meghan Markle "hated every second" of her tour of Australia with Prince Harry, a royal author has claimed.The then-newlywedded couple were following in the footsteps of Charles and Diana as they received an enthusiastic welcome from the Australian public, with the pair even announcing they were expecting their first child, Archie, while on the tour.
But according to royal author Tina Brown, Meghan found the itinerary for the 2018 tour "pointless", which features in the author's new book The Palace Papers.
In the book, Brown was told by a palace staffer: "She didn’t understand why things were set up in that way. Instead of being excited when thousands of people showed up at the opera house, it was very much like, ‘What’s the purpose?
I don’t understand this.' Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter "The ‘this’ being the representational role of the British monarchy and its traditional agenda, rather than the focus on causes she wanted to spotlight.” Meghan also thought it was "silly" that fans of the royal family in Sydney flocked to the Opera house to see them, according to the author - which matches similar claims made in a report published by the Times in 2021.
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