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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle attend the Invictus Games Friends and Family reception at Zuiderpark.<\/p>\n
April 29 2025, Published 10:10 a.m. ET<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Prince Harry and Meghan Markle hit things off on their very first date and have been going strong ever since. While most of their close friends attended their 2018 fairytale wedding, not everyone took a liking to the Duchess. Royal author Tom Quinn revealed that one of Harry\u2019s best friends hated Markle, claiming her progressive views<\/a> didn’t make her the right match for the Prince. <\/p>\n Article continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Quinn told Fox News,<\/a> \u201cOne of Harry’s best friends said, ‘I can’t understand what Harry sees in her. She’s a tree hugger. She’s so woke.\u201d The expert added, \u201cBut I think Harry was, in a way, entranced by the fact that Meghan was able to offer him an alternative world from the one he\u2019d always known.\u201d <\/p>\n Article continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Quinn revealed that it wasn’t just Harry’s friends who didn’t like Markle; she was reportedly not a fan of them either. He recalled an incident where Markle and Harry joined some of his friends from his school for a pheasant shoot at Sandringham. He continued, \u201cShe hated it because all of Harry\u2019s friends were making the sorts of jokes that suggested they disliked everything to do with \u2018woke\u2019…They just don\u2019t like that kind of thing because, to a large extent, it\u2019s seen as Left-wing.\u201d Other than Harry\u2019s friends, who thought he became \u2018too woke\u2019 after meeting Markle, former Palace staffers also echoed the same concerns.<\/p>\n Article continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Quinn, in his book Yes Ma’am: The Secret Life of Royal Servants, quoted Palace aides as having said that Harry was \u201cone of the easiest and nicest people to work for\u201d before meeting Markle. As reported by The New York Times,<\/a> a former staff member said, \u201cThat terrible modern word \u2018woke\u2019 has often been used, and although I don\u2019t like it, I can see why it is applied to Harry \u2014 he did become far more concerned about social issues and the rights of minorities than he\u2019d ever been before Meghan\u2019s arrival.\u201d One of the Duke\u2019s former senior aides also claimed that he felt Harry went from being ‘pretty easy-going’ to being ‘more disgruntled’.<\/p>\n Article continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The book also alleged that Palace staffers coined derogatory nicknames <\/a>for the Sussexes, given their \u2018woke\u2019 nature. A royal source told The Sun, <\/a>“Some of the youngest staff at Kensington Palace would’ve applauded this, no doubt, but the older staff thought he’d become a tree-hugging Leftie.\u201d The insider continued, \u201cIt’s true that her nickname for a while was the ‘Duchess of Difficult’, but she had other, friendlier nicknames, including Mystic Meg, which came about because she was so new agey, so woke, about so many things.\u201d Quinn’s book also mentions that Markle was called \u2018Me-Gain\u2019 and \u2018Di Lite\u2019, allegedly because staff found her difficult to work with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Source: Getty Images| Karwai Tang\/Wire Image Prince Harry and Meghan Markle attend the Invictus Games Friends and Family…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7721,7719,7718,1501,7720,1281,447,7710,519,7802,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-61401","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-latest-news","13":"tag-meghan","14":"tag-meghan-markle","15":"tag-prince-harry","16":"tag-royal-families","17":"tag-royal-family","18":"tag-royal-rebels","19":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114423772309314572","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61401","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=61401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}