{"id":486569,"date":"2025-10-09T20:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T20:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/486569\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T20:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T20:43:10","slug":"royal-family-live-meghan-slammed-for-cynical-attention-seeking-in-brutal-takedown-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/486569\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family LIVE: Meghan slammed for &#8216;cynical attention seeking&#8217; in brutal takedown | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a> deserves sympathy after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/meghan-markle\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan Markle<\/a>&#8216;s recent solo trip to Paris, a Royal Commentator has claimed. Amanda Platell admitted she &#8220;never thought she would feel sorry&#8221; for the Duke of Sussex over his wife&#8217;s itinerary &#8211; but that she had found herself feeling awkward for him.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in the Daily Mail, Ms Platell questioned whether Meghan&#8217;s late-night car journey, filmed near the route Princess Diana took before her fatal 1997 crash, was coincidental or designed to attract attention.<\/p>\n<p>She was also uncomforable at Meghan&#8217;s decision to stay at the Hotel Plaza Athenee, located just four minutes from the Pont de l\u2019Alma tunnel where Diana died, along with a social media post showing her in a vehicle close to the site.<\/p>\n<p>Royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams described the episode as &#8220;insensitive&#8221; and Ms Platell speculated that Harry, who recounted his own painful experiences at the tunnel in his memoir Spare, might potentially have counselled against the trip had he accompanied her.<\/p>\n<p>She added: &#8220;Does anyone really believe it was coincidence rather than cynical attention-seeking that Meghan\u2019s first solo European trip as Duchess of Sussex was a visit to Paris? The romantic city that Princess Diana loved above all, and the one where she died?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry deserves sympathy after Meghan Markle&#8216;s recent solo trip to Paris, a Royal Commentator has claimed. Amanda&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[8009,20412,8010,1281,1487,8003,1488,160915,5105,7710,519,1277,1598,10858,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-486569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-harry-and-meghan","9":"tag-harry-and-meghan-latest","10":"tag-harry-and-meghan-news","11":"tag-meghan-markle","12":"tag-meghan-markle-latest","13":"tag-meghan-markle-latest-news","14":"tag-meghan-markle-news","15":"tag-meghan-markle-slammed","16":"tag-royal","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family","19":"tag-royal-family-live","20":"tag-royal-family-news","21":"tag-royal-news","22":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115346158880498326","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486569","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=486569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}