Meanwhile, the Duchess of Sussex accuses the British royal family of a coordinated campaign to use her to block bad stories about other royal family members with Meghan's negative and untrue news.
- Dec 15, 2022
AceShowbiz - Princess Kate Middleton's friend has jumped to her defense in response to Meghan Markle's recent claims suggesting that Kate isn't a hugger. According to the pal, the Duchess of Cambridge is a "warm and friendly" person.
Speaking to PEOPLE, the friend said, "Kate's a big hugger." The friend continued, "She is warm and friendly and greets everyone with a big hug and kiss. It comes naturally to her to be like that."
The defense arrived after Meghan said on her and Prince Harry's Netflix docuseries "Harry & Meghan" that she was surprised by Prince William and Kate's formality behind closed doors. Recounting her first meeting with the Prince and Princess of Wales, Meghan said, "I was a hugger and have always been a hugger. I didn't realize that that was really jarring for a lot of Brits."
The Duchess of Sussex added, "I guess I started to understand very quickly that the formality on the outside carried through on the inside. I guess I'd start to understand very quickly that the formality on the outside, carried through on the inside."
"There is a forward-facing way of being and then you close the door and you relax now. But that formality carries over on both sides. And that was surprising to me," she continued.
In other news related to Meghan, two of her friends believe that the royal was used by Buckingham Palace by ignoring negative and untrue news about Meghan in order to avoid bad stories about other royal family members.
"There was a real kind of war against Meghan, and I've certainly seen evidence that there was negative briefing from the palace against Harry and Meghan to suit other people's agendas," attorney Jenny Afia, a partner at Schillings Law Firm in London, said at the start of the latest trailer for "Harry & Meghan" Volume II.
Lucy Faser, meanwhile, says, "Meg became this scapegoat for the palace. And so they would feed stories on her, whether they were true or not, to avoid other less favorable stories being printed."
"You would just see it play out," Meghan adds in an on-camera interview. "A story about someone in the family would pop for a minute, and they'd go, 'We gotta make that go away.' "
"But there's real estate on a website homepage, there's real estate there on a newspaper front cover. And something has to be filled in there about someone royal," she continues. Before the end of the trailer, Jenny notes, "This barrage of negative articles about the breakdown of the relationship with her father was the final straw in a campaign of negative, nasty coverage about her."
