In a new teaser for Netflix docu-series, the Duchess of Sussex believes the Firm planted stories about her to keep attention away from scandalous royal members.
- Dec 14, 2022
AceShowbiz - Meghan Markle accuses Buckingham Palace of planting stories about her to distract from other royals. The latest teaser - released before the second volume of Netflix's explosive "Harry and Meghan" documentary drops on Thursday, December 15 - has alleged Prince Harry's wife was used as a "scapegoat."
"There was a real kind of war against Meghan, and I've certainly seen evidence that there was negative briefing from the Palace against Harry and Meghan to suit other peoples' agendas," Jenny Afia - a partner at London's Schillings Law Firm - says in the new clip shared on Twitter.
Friend Lucy Fraser adds, "Meg became this scapegoat for the Palace, and so they would feed stories on her, whether they were true or not, to avoid other less favourable stories being printed."
The 41-year-old former actress herself insists you could "see it play out" whenever "someone in the family" made the news in a negative way. She says, "You would just see it play out. A story about someone in the family would pop up for a minute, and they'd go, 'We gotta make that go away.' "
"But there's real estate on a website homepage, there is real estate there on a newspaper front cover and something has be filled in there about someone royal."
Afia comments that the amount of coverage about the "breakdown of the relationship with her father" Thomas Markle Sr. was the last straw. She says, "This barrage of negative articles about the breakdown of the relationship with her father was the final straw in a campaign of negative, nasty coverage about her."
In another trailer released earlier this week, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex appeared to accuse the Palace of being willing to "lie to protect" his "brother" Prince William. In the teaser dropped on Monday, December 12, Harry said, "They were happy to lie to protect my brother. They were never willing to tell the truth to protect us."
In the trailer, Meghan - who previously was known as Meghan Markle before she gave up acting and married Harry - claims she was "being fed to the wolves" as Harry speaks about "institutional gaslighting" as footage is shown of newspaper presses rolling.
Speaking into the camera, Meghan says, "I wasn't being thrown to the wolves. I was being fed to the wolves."
