Meghan Markle was a ‘Scapegoat’ for the palace, according to a friend
In a new trailer for Netflix’s Harry & Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex claims that Buckingham Palace used her to shield other members of the royal family from bad press
Meghan Markle isn’t being coy.
Friends Lucy Fraser and Jenny Afia allege in the latest trailer for volume two of Harry & Meghan, which premieres on Netflix Thursday, that the Duchess of Sussex, 41, was used by Buckingham Palace, which perpetuated negative and untrue news about her to avoid unfavorable stories about other royal family members making headlines.
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“There was a real kind of war against Meghan, and I’ve certainly seen evidence that there was a negative briefing from the palace against Harry and Meghan to suit other people’s agendas,” Afia, a partner at Schillings Law Firm in London, said at the start of the clip. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex retained Schillings as their representation for their 2018 suit against the Mail on Sunday, Lawyer Monthly reported.
Fraser, a friend, spoke next in the new trailer, saying, “Meg became this scapegoat for the palace. And so they would feed stories on her, whether they were true or not, to avoid other less favorable stories being printed.”
“You would just see it play out,” Meghan said in an on-camera interview. “A story about someone in the family would pop for a minute, and they’d go, ‘We gotta make that go away.’ “
“But there’s real estate on a website homepage, there’s real estate there on a newspaper front cover. And something has to be filled in there about someone royal,” she continued, as footage rolled of U.K. negative newspaper headlines about her, printed while she was living in England as a senior working royal.
“This barrage of negative articles about the breakdown of the relationship with her father was the final straw in a campaign of negative, nasty coverage about her,” Afia added as the trailer cut to black.
Meghan and Prince Harry, both 38, previously hinted that the second volume of their docuseries would focus on what went wrong in their relationship with the rest of the royal family. Prince Harry discussed the extent of press interference he believes the couple had as working members of the royal family in a clip released on Monday. He also alleged that he and Meghan received different treatment than his brother, Prince William.
Meghan Markle isn’t being coy.
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Friends Lucy Fraser and Jenny Afia allege in the latest trailer for volume two of Harry & Meghan, which premieres on Netflix Thursday, that the Duchess of Sussex, 41, was used by Buckingham Palace, which perpetuated negative and untrue news about her to avoid unfavorable stories about other royal family members making headlines.
“There was a real kind of war against Meghan, and I’ve certainly seen evidence that there was a negative briefing from the palace against Harry and Meghan to suit other people’s agendas,” Afia, a partner at Schillings Law Firm in London, said at the start of the clip. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex retained Schillings as their representation for their 2018 suit against the Mail on Sunday, Lawyer Monthly reported.
Fraser, a friend, spoke next in the new trailer, saying, “Meg became this scapegoat for the palace. And so they would feed stories on her, whether they were true or not, to avoid other less favorable stories being printed.”
“You would just see it play out,” Meghan said in an on-camera interview. “A story about someone in the family would pop for a minute, and they’d go, ‘We gotta make that go away.’ “
“But there’s real estate on a website homepage, there’s real estate there on a newspaper front cover. And something has to be filled in there about someone royal,” she continued, as footage rolled of U.K. negative newspaper headlines about her, printed while she was living in England as a senior working royal.
“This barrage of negative articles about the breakdown of the relationship with her father was the final straw in a campaign of negative, nasty coverage about her,” Afia added as the trailer cut to black.
“I wasn’t being thrown to the wolves. I was being fed to the wolves,” she stressed.
Volume one of Harry & Meghan is now streaming on Netflix. Volume two drops Thursday.