{"id":1951258,"date":"2025-08-09T11:49:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T11:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1951258"},"modified":"2025-08-09T11:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T11:49:21","slug":"royal-family-live-meghans-friend-slams-firms-double-standards-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royal-family-live-meghans-friend-slams-firms-double-standards-royal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family LIVE: Meghan&#8217;s friend slams Firm&#8217;s &#8216;double standards&#8217; | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Meghan Markle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/meghan-markle\">Meghan Markle<\/a>&#8216;s friend Bryony Gordon has hit out at the Firm in regards to their &#8220;double standards&#8221; over the treatment of the Duchess of Sussex and <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Prince Andrew\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-andrew\">Prince Andrew<\/a>. According to a new royal book, Andrew Lownie&#8217;s &#8216;Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York&#8217;, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\">Prince Harry<\/a> was involved in a fight with Andrew, which left his uncle with a &#8220;bloody nose&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It later claimed that Andrew told his nephew that his marriage to <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/meghan-markle\">Meghan Markle<\/a> wouldn&#8217;t last more than a month &#8211; and also accused him of going &#8220;bonkers&#8221; before <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/1425899\/meghan-markle-prince-harry-prince-andrew-princess-eugenie-oprah-winfrey-respect-spt\">calling him out for not doing any due diligence into her past<\/a>. Citing her frustration after seeing the claims, Bryony spoke about against what she described as &#8220;ridiculous double standards&#8221; within the Firm. She wrote: &#8220;With each sordid allegation, I have become more and more furious that so little was done to help Meghan as she struggled with life in the royal family, while so much was done to protect <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-andrew\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\">Prince Andrew<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Somehow, Andrew got away with it for decades, while Meghan was branded &#8216;Duchess Difficult&#8217; the moment she so much as asked the Queen if she might be able to borrow a tiara for her wedding. Why is it that people will tolerate all manner of misbehavior from the likes of powerful men like <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-andrew\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\">Prince Andrew<\/a>, but not a woman who, according to critics, has a habit of occasionally emailing her staff at 5am.?&#8221; Bryony has been friends with Meghan and Harry for seven years.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>WELCOME TO OUR LIVE BLOG. PLEASE FIND THE LATEST ROYAL UPDATES BELOW.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Markle&#8216;s friend Bryony Gordon has hit out at the Firm in regards to their &#8220;double standards&#8221; over the treatment of the Duchess of Sussex and Prince Andrew. According to a new royal book, Andrew Lownie&#8217;s &#8216;Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York&#8217;, Prince Harry was involved in a fight with Andrew, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1951259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[339613,341511,323209,23067,341510,22769,341509],"class_list":["post-1951258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-andrew-lownie","tag-andrew-lownie-book","tag-bryony-gordon","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-andrew-harry-fight","tag-royal-family","tag-royal-firm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Royal-Family-LIVE-Meghans-friend-slams-Firms-double-standards.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1951259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}