{"id":151293,"date":"2025-06-02T05:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T05:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/151293\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T05:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T05:22:09","slug":"royal-family-live-meghan-markle-was-barred-from-royal-summit-for-stunning-reason-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/151293\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family LIVE: Meghan Markle \u2018was barred from royal summit\u2019 for stunning reason | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/meghan-markle\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan Markle<\/a> was barred from dialling into the 2020 Sandringham Summit because royal aides feared she was \u201csmarter\u201d than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a>, a new documentary has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The sit-down, called by the late Queen to thrash out the Sussexes\u2019 future, saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a> attend alone while the Duchess of Sussex remained in Canada with their son Archie.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Emily Andrews alleged that palace officials believed they would \u201cget a better outcome\u201d for the Firm by excluding Meghan from the talks.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cThey all knew Meghan was probably smarter, brighter, had a more linear view of where she and Harry were going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Duchess later hit out at the decision, saying: \u201cImagine a roundtable discussion about the future of your life\u2026 and you\u2019re not invited to have a seat at the table.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle was barred from dialling into the 2020 Sandringham Summit because royal aides feared she was \u201csmarter\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[1281,447,1763,5105,7710,519,448,64545],"class_list":{"0":"post-151293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-meghan-markle","9":"tag-prince-harry","10":"tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","11":"tag-royal","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family","14":"tag-royals","15":"tag-sandringham-summit"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114612099424059882","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}