{"id":262830,"date":"2025-07-13T23:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T23:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/262830\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T23:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T23:57:09","slug":"meghan-markles-gross-slip-up-in-drew-barrymore-interview-royals-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/262830\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle&#8217;s &#8216;gross slip-up&#8217; in Drew Barrymore interview &#8211; Royals &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The initial broadcast of this conversation took place on The Drew Barrymore Show, but it&#8217;s Meghan&#8217;s choice of words, particularly her brief pause before revising &#8220;whoever&#8217;s with them&#8221; to &#8220;papa&#8221;, that&#8217;s drawing scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>A viewer pointed out: &#8220;She tripped up. &#8216;So whoever&#8217;s with them&#8230;.or, um, Poppa can say to them.&#8217; Busted!&#8221; Another observed: &#8220;The recovery is slow&#8230; oh, papa reads to them&#8230; oh dear.&#8221; One critic bluntly assessed: &#8220;She made a gross SLIP UP MISTAKE,&#8221; further noting: &#8220;&#8216;Whoever is with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Skeptics of her clarification also chimed in, remarking: &#8220;She also said &#8216;send them to whoever is with them&#8217; &#8211; that&#8217;s like a lot of people.&#8221; Another added: &#8220;It looks like she&#8217;s about to say &#8216;so the nanny&#8217; but stops herself to say &#8216;whoever is with them, papa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Critics also took issue with how rehearsed the moment seemed. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t make any sense,&#8221; one viewer said. Another said: &#8220;It is like everything Markle does is scripted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The full quote came during a segment in which Meghan tried to express the importance of &#8220;showing up&#8221; for one another, saying, &#8220;You find ways to show up for each other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And if that&#8217;s the one thing I can convey through the show or through As Ever as a brand, it&#8217;s I want you to know you can show up for each other because you know how good it feels when someone shows up for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The resurfaced bedtime clip is just the latest moment fueling public doubt over Meghan&#8217;s authenticity &#8211; with Royal insiders now backing claims that Prince William had concerns about her from the start.<\/p>\n<p>Royal biographer Phil Dampier recently told The Sun that William saw right through what he called Meghan&#8217;s &#8220;stepping stone&#8221; plan to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/prince-harry\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a> for fame.<\/p>\n<p>Dampier said: &#8220;Sadly, Meghan never really had any intention of staying in the royal family,&#8221; adding that Lady Elizabeth Anson, the late Queen&#8217;s closest confidante, had also warned the monarch early on &#8211; making the rift between William and Meghan all the more &#8220;inevitable.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The initial broadcast of this conversation took place on The Drew Barrymore Show, but it&#8217;s Meghan&#8217;s choice of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,81232,7721,7719,7718,7720,1281,447,100502,7710,519,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-262830","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-drew-barrymore","10":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","11":"tag-duke-of-sussex","12":"tag-harry","13":"tag-meghan","14":"tag-meghan-markle","15":"tag-prince-harry","16":"tag-public-scrutiny","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family","19":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262830","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=262830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}