{"id":254400,"date":"2025-07-10T20:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254400\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T20:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:41:12","slug":"prince-william-shuns-meghan-markle-for-using-harry-as-stepping-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254400\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William Shuns Meghan Markle For Using Harry As &#8216;Stepping Stone&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dampier has long speculated that the Duchess of Sussex was the straw that broke the camel\u2019s back in the monarchy and was shocked when <strong>Lady Elizabeth Anson<\/strong>, cousin of <a href=\"https:\/\/okmagazine.com\/t\/queen-elizabeth-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen Elizabeth II<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/life-style\/celebrity\/article\/what-the-queen-really-thought-of-meghan-according-to-her-closest-confidante-85vb5dkbc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revealed in a posthumous interview<\/a> that the royal matriarch was \u201cvery worried\u201d when she realized <a href=\"https:\/\/okmagazine.com\/p\/queen-elizabeth-meghan-markle-not-working-well-prince-william-kate-middleton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan would be marrying into the family<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think, unfortunately, that confirms what I\u2019ve been saying or thought for the last few years: that, sadly, Meghan never really had any intention of staying in the royal family,\u201d Dampier dished after Anson\u2019s interview went public on July 1 \u2014 five years after her death in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe saw, as a stepping stone, getting married to Harry to new fame and fortune,\u201d the journalist added. \u201cAnd I think that\u2019s what initially Prince William was concerned about\u2026 but to have this confirmed by somebody so close to the queen is really dynamite.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dampier has long speculated that the Duchess of Sussex was the straw that broke the camel\u2019s back in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,12,2832,532,2831,7710,519,448,15961,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-254400","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-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-prince-of-wales","14":"tag-prince-william","15":"tag-princess-of-wales","16":"tag-royal-families","17":"tag-royal-family","18":"tag-royals","19":"tag-top-slots","20":"tag-uk-royal-family","21":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114830880667001640","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254400","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=254400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}