Meghan Markle’s impact on the Royal Family caused as big a crisis as Princess Diana’s death or the abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936, historian and biographer Hugo Vickers has claimed.
In an interview with The Sun’s royal editor Matt Wilkinson, Hugo was asked what had been the biggest crisis in the Royal Family in the past 50 years.
After acknowledging the biggest crisis would be the abdication but that was more than five decades ago, Hugo said: “I suppose the death of Diana in 1997 was the big crisis point.
But, at the risk of being controversial, will the arrival of Meghan Markle prove to be a bigger one in the long run? Who knows.” Hugo went on to say that while there was a great deal of goodwill when Meghan married Prince Harry, things later took a turn for the worse for the couple. “What I find unforgivable, is the stress she put on the late Queen in the last couple of years of her life.” It was during those final years that Meghan and Harry decided to make a new life in America and an agreement was made that the couple could leave but not have the trappings that came with being a member of the Royal Family.
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