'Meghan was naive saying royals were too formal in private - they are just like any family'

ok.co.uk:

The recent appearance of the Princess Royal and the Prince and Princess of Wales on Mike Tindall's podcast 'The Good, the Bad and the Rugby' served to prove that the Royal Family are great fun behind closed doors and enjoy everything from playing beer pong to racing in barefoot to cold water swimming.This clear sense of fun and informality jars with claims made by Meghan Markle on her and Prince Harry's Netflix series that the Royal Family are standoffish in private.

She said: "I guess I started to understand very quickly that the formality on the outside carried through on the inside.That there is a forward-facing way of being and then you close the door and 'phew I can relax now' but that formality carries over on both sides.

And that was surprising to me." After Meghan's point was recently disproven when the royals gathered to speak about the Rugby World Cup, former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond spoke to OK!

about why the Duchess' views on the Royal Family prove she was "naive". Referring to the hilarious discussions had during the podcast, Jennie said: "Mike and his rugby colleagues have a wonderful way of teasing out little titbits about life behind the Palace walls.