Meghan Markle’s hopes of turning the Royal Family into a “Hollywood celebrity game” were dashed after claiming the royal title, author Tom Bower has claimed.
The royal biographer said he believed the former TV star struggled to accept the realities of royal life when she married Prince Harry, and became upset when she was denied her time in the spotlight.
Speaking on Sunrise, Mr Bower said: “She voluntarily came to England and married into the Royal Family and she must have known what that required.
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She had to be part of the team and support the Queen and play her part.
“And all she really did was complain because she wanted the spotlight, she wanted to be number one.
She wanted to turn the Royal Family into a Hollywood celebrity game. I think she wanted the title, she wanted the fame, and then go back to California.”
Bower recently made new claims about Meghan Markle’s first marriage to Trevor Engelson, including that the duchess allegedly “abandoned” the film producer to “build a new life” once she began finding fame on Suits.
In a wide-ranging interview about his new unauthorised royal biography, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors, The British writer and investigative journalist discussed the alleged change in the former Suits star’s personality after she moved from her hometown of Los Angeles to Toronto, Canada, where she filmed the show.
This was her last project as an actress before marrying Prince Harry.
“What’s fascinating about Meghan’s life is that she changed when she got to Toronto from L.A.,” Bower claimed to Palace Confidential host Jo Elvin on an episode of the MailPlus podcast.
Bower claimed that Meghan “never wanted to live with Trevor in L.A.” and “was determined to build a new life.”
“And therefore, Trevor is abandoned,” the former BBC journalist alleged
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Markle and Engelson began dating in 2004 and wed nearly seven years later in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, in 2011. They quietly divorced just two years later.
Bower added: “Meghan is a schemer, you never know – really – looking at Meghan unless you’re really far inside her mind, what she really thinks, what she really wants.
“That’s the story across America and Britain, people perplexed about a woman who really has betrayed them, dumped them and that’s what many of them obviously think she’ll do to Harry.”
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