{"id":223636,"date":"2025-06-29T09:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T09:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/223636\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T09:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T09:27:10","slug":"meghan-markle-branded-control-freak-over-wimbledon-incident-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/223636\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle branded &#8216;control freak&#8217; over &#8216;Wimbledon incident&#8217; | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reported by the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/royals\/article-14691315\/Meghan-Markle-Wimbledon-incident-truth.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail<\/a>, Meghan was later branded &#8220;childish&#8221; and a &#8220;control freak&#8221; after former tennis champion Sally Jones revealed she was warned about taking pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Sally then revealed that she had told the former working royal&#8217;s &#8220;embarrassed&#8221; bodyguard she was trying to get a photograph of Serena Williams and had no idea Meghan was there.<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">Ms Jones told MailOnline that Meghan was &#8220;clearly looking around looking to see who was looking at her&#8221;, adding: &#8220;Harry and Meghan see themselves more as A-list celebrities rather than royals carrying out their duties. It&#8217;s control-freakery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">She added: &#8220;There were around 200 photographers snapping away at her but security were sent to warn an old biddy like me. It makes them look silly. It&#8217;s childish and takes us for fools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Serena and Meghan met in 2010 at a Super Bowl party and became close friends, with the former sporting star previously appeared on Meghan&#8217;s first podcast series, Archetypes in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The was also invited to Meghan and Harry&#8217;s 2018 wedding, as well as her NYC baby shower with Archie in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about their friendship, Meghan previously wrote on her now-defunct blog The Tig: &#8220;We hit it off immediately, taking pictures, laughing through the flag football game we were both playing in and chatting not about tennis or acting, but about all the good old-fashioned girly stuff. So began our friendship.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As reported by the Daily Mail, Meghan was later branded &#8220;childish&#8221; and a &#8220;control freak&#8221; after former tennis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7721,7719,7718,7720,1281,88285,447,7710,519,10095,7711,5068],"class_list":{"0":"post-223636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","10":"tag-duke-of-sussex","11":"tag-harry","12":"tag-meghan","13":"tag-meghan-markle","14":"tag-meghan-markle-wimbledon","15":"tag-prince-harry","16":"tag-royal-families","17":"tag-royal-family","18":"tag-serena-williams","19":"tag-uk-royal-family","20":"tag-wimbledon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114765944832736920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223636","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=223636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}