{"id":1968233,"date":"2025-08-19T08:59:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1968233"},"modified":"2025-08-19T08:59:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:59:27","slug":"so-little-was-done-to-help-her-meghan-markles-friend-bryony-gordon-slams-royal-family-for-protecting-prince-andrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/so-little-was-done-to-help-her-meghan-markles-friend-bryony-gordon-slams-royal-family-for-protecting-prince-andrew\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018So little was done to help her\u2019: Meghan Markle\u2019s friend Bryony Gordon slams royal family for protecting Prince Andrew"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Meghan Markle\u2019s pal Bryony Gordon has launched a fresh attack on the royal family and accused the monarchy of failing to \u201chelp\u201d the Duchess of Sussex.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Ms Gordon, a British journalist, has emerged as an ardent defender of \u201cmy friends\u201d the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and was even sent a complimentary jar of Markle\u2019s jam.<\/p>\n

It is understood the journalist befriended Markle in the early days of her courtship with Harry, and Gordon later worked on Harry\u2019s ‘Heads Together’ mental health campaign.<\/p>\n

Last week, Ms Gordon launched an impassioned defence of the Duchess of Sussex and slammed the monarchy\u2019s “ridiculous double standards” towards the disgraced Prince Andrew.<\/p>\n

The palace\u2019s involvement in the disgraced Duke of York\u2019s private life has been subject to fresh scrutiny in recent weeks amid the publication of a new book on the Yorks by Andrew Lownie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“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 Prince Andrew,” she wrote in the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n

Since leaving the royal family, Markle has publicly criticised the monarchy for failing to protect her mental health during a sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey and a Netflix docu-series.<\/p>\n

Markle also made allegations senior royals made \u201cracist\u201d remarks about Prince Archie\u2019s skin colour and erroneously claimed the palace \u201cprevented\u201d Archie from becoming a prince.<\/p>\n

She also claimed that she secretly \u201cmarried\u201d Harry before their actual church wedding, a claim debunked by both the Archbishop of Canterbury and the palace.<\/p>\n

Gordon appears to skirt Markle\u2019s own possibly problematic behaviour, including alleged incidents of staff bullying that were subject to an HR probe<\/a>, and alleged her friend\u2019s only crime was a few \u201c5am emails\u201d.<\/p>\n

“Somehow, Andrew got away with it for decades, while Meghan was branded ‘Duchess Difficult’ the moment she so much as asked the Queen if she might be able to borrow a tiara for her wedding,\u201d Gordon said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy is it that people will tolerate all manner of misbehaviour from the likes of powerful men like Prince Andrew, but not a woman who, according to critics, has a habit of occasionally emailing her staff at 5am?”<\/p>\n

The impassioned defence comes as King Charles faces renewed calls to take harsher action against his brother Andrew to restore public faith in the monarchy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.skynews.com.au \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meghan Markle\u2019s pal Bryony Gordon has launched a fresh attack on the royal family and accused the monarchy of failing to \u201chelp\u201d the Duchess of Sussex. Ms Gordon, a British journalist, has emerged as an ardent defender of \u201cmy friends\u201d the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and was even sent a complimentary jar of Markle\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1968234,"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":[23067,22730,27155,349138],"class_list":["post-1968233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry","tag-royals","tag-sussexes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/\u2018So-little-was-done-to-help-her-Meghan-Markles-friend.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968233","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=1968233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1968234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}