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Meghan Markle<\/strong> reportedly received a two-word nickname from the late Prince Philip, her husband\u2019s grandfather. Hugo Vickers, a royal historian and author who wrote a new biography of the late Queen Elizabeth II, allegedly claimed that the late Duke of Edinburgh routinely called the Duchess of Sussex \u201cThe American\u201d. He also allegedly had another code name for her privately.<\/p>\n Prince Philip reportedly gave his grandson Prince Harry\u2019s<\/a> wife, Meghan Markle<\/a>, a two-word nickname, which was \u201cThe American.\u201d As reported by The Mirror<\/a>, royal historian and author Hugo Vickers claimed in his new book that the late Duke of Edinburgh \u201cwould simply refer to Meghan Markle as \u2018The American.’\u201d <\/p>\n Meanwhile, per the news outlet, the royal author also claimed that the Queen had \u201ctorn Meghan off a strip\u201d once after the Duchess of Sussex behaved rudely to one of the royal gardeners.<\/p>\n In the meantime, according to the news outlet, the late Prince Philip previously drew comparisons between a \u201ccontroversial\u201d member of the royal family from an earlier era and Meghan Markle. The late Duke of Edinburgh privately referred to his grandson Prince Harry\u2019s wife as \u201cDoW.\u201d It was reportedly late Prince Philip\u2019s code for \u201cDuchess of Windsor.\u201d It was allegedly a reference to Wallis Simpson.<\/p>\n According to the news outlet, Ingrid Seward, a royal expert, said on GB News that the late Prince Philip thought Meghan Markle had an \u201cuncanny\u201d resemblance to Wallis Simpson. The expert allegedly claimed, \u201cHe wasn\u2019t simply referring to the fact that both were pencil-slim, dark-haired and glamorous American divorcees.\u201d <\/p>\n The person continued, \u201cI think Prince Philip was very canny about people.\u201d The royal expert further explained that the late Duke of Edinburgh \u201cdidn\u2019t always see the bad in them.\u201d \u201cHe tried to see the good in them,\u201d also added Ingrid Seward, the royal expert.<\/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.realitytea.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Meghan Markle reportedly received a two-word nickname from the late Prince Philip, her husband\u2019s grandfather. Hugo Vickers, a royal historian and author who wrote a new biography of the late Queen Elizabeth II, allegedly claimed that the late Duke of Edinburgh routinely called the Duchess of Sussex \u201cThe American\u201d. He also allegedly had another code […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2372909,"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":[21818,310803,23067,22982],"class_list":["post-2372908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-lifestyle","tag-lifestyle-news","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-philip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/This-Royal-Gave-Meghan-Markle-a-Two-Word-Nickname-\u2014-Author.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372908","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=2372908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372910,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372908\/revisions\/2372910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2372909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2372908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2372908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2372908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Prince Philip reportedly called Meghan Markle \u2018the American,\u2019 claims royal author<\/h2>\n