{"id":156703,"date":"2025-06-04T05:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T05:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156703\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T05:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T05:43:09","slug":"royal-family-live-meghan-markle-thinks-she-always-knows-best-despite-falling-popularity-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156703\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family LIVE: Meghan Markle &#8216;thinks she always knows best&#8217; despite falling popularity | 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> is stubbornly pushing ahead with her personal brand of royalty \u2013 even as her popularity hits rock bottom \u2013 because she believes she \u201calways knows best\u201d, a royal expert has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Royal biographer Penny Junor said the Duchess of Sussex routinely ignores advice and is convinced her way is the only way, despite growing public disapproval. In a column for Sky News Australian, Ms Junor wrote: \u201cMeghan doesn\u2019t listen to advice \u2013 she believes she always knows best and that Harry only listens to her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pointing out that Meghan&#8217;s popularity rating in the UK had fallen to just 20% in a recent poll, she accused the couple of trying to create a \u201ccheap knock-off\u201d of the Royal Family in California, complete with their own staff and PR operation \u2013 but insisted it was destined to fail.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Junor suggested <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a> has become increasingly isolated under Meghan\u2019s influence, and warned their self-styled \u201ccourt\u201d is unlikely to survive long given her attitude and the couple\u2019s ongoing war with the press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle is stubbornly pushing ahead with her personal brand of royalty \u2013 even as her popularity hits&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[1281,7862,447,66495,5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-156703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-meghan-markle","9":"tag-penny-junor","10":"tag-prince-harry","11":"tag-public-disapproval","12":"tag-royal","13":"tag-royal-families","14":"tag-royal-family","15":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114623506336802215","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156703","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=156703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}