{"id":2413517,"date":"2026-05-12T16:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2413517"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:20:30","slug":"meghan-markle-experienced-culture-shock-in-royal-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/meghan-markle-experienced-culture-shock-in-royal-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle experienced \u2018culture shock\u2019 in royal life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Meghan Markle<\/strong> might have been in over her head when marrying Prince Harry<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to journalist Samara Gill<\/strong>, entering the royal family was a \u201cculture shock\u201d for the Duchess of Sussex.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not as glamorous as the Disney fairytale,\u201d she said during an appearance on the \u201cRoyal Exclusive<\/a>\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n

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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry attend Christmas church services in 2017. By: MEGA<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

English correspondent Jennie Bond<\/strong> believes Meghan thought she could be the star of The Firm.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have always held the view that Meghan failed to understand that she would never be the top dog in the royal family\u2026or even the deputy top dog,\u201d she told<\/a>OK! U.K.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to be in complete control and charge of your life,\u201d Bond pointed out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with seeking the limelight. It\u2019s just that the royal family was the wrong vehicle for her ambitions,\u201d the journalist added.<\/p>\n

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leave Windsor Castle on their wedding day in 2018. By: Chris Jackson\/MEGA<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Expert Phil Dampier<\/strong> claimed once the Suits<\/em> star realized she didn\u2019t have the freedom to use her status the way she wanted, she fled.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest, I don\u2019t think she ever intended to stay in the royal family,\u201d he told The Sun<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, I think she was prepared to have a wonderful wedding costing millions of pounds, but I don\u2019t think her heart was ever really in it,\u201d the commentator said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think she always planned to leave, so the proof of the pudding is in the eating and that\u2019s what we\u2019re seeing now,\u201d Dampier noted.<\/p>\n

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Meghan Markle attends the Children\u2019s Hospital Los Angeles Gala in 2024. By: MEGA<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Meghan and the Spare<\/em> author got engaged in 2017 before marrying in May 2018.<\/p>\n

In January 2020, the couple announced they were leaving England to live in America.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter many months of reflection and internal discussions, we have chosen to make a transition this year in starting to carve out a progressive new role within this institution,\u201d they said in a statement via celebrity.land<\/a>. \u201cWe intend to step back as \u2018senior\u2019 members of the royal family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Queen Elizabeth II<\/strong>.\u201d<\/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.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meghan Markle might have been in over her head when marrying Prince Harry. According to journalist Samara Gill, entering the royal family was a \u201cculture shock\u201d for the Duchess of Sussex. \u201cIt\u2019s not as glamorous as the Disney fairytale,\u201d she said during an appearance on the \u201cRoyal Exclusive\u201d podcast. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry attend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2413518,"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":[358480,23067,22730,24515],"class_list":["post-2413517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-jennie-bond","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry","tag-the-royal-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Meghan-Markle-experienced-\u2018culture-shock-in-royal-life.com2Fen2Faol_wonderwall_7342F174b78e5747879fd013c53b05bf9e68c.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413517","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=2413517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2413519,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413517\/revisions\/2413519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2413518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}