In a TikTok video, Maren Morris revealed that she knows the history of the British royal family, even though she’s no monarchist. She pointed out that female members of the Buckingham Palace brood always seem to shoulder the blame if there’s ever any challenge to the status quo, using Prince Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, as a prime example of a female royal who was demonized by the press and supporters of the monarchy. She also mentioned King Edward VIII’s marriage to Wallis Simpson and Princess Margaret’s forbidden romance with Peter Townsend.
“This profound hatred and annoyance at Meghan Markle specifically — mostly coming from women, I have to say — it’s unfathomable to me,” Morris said of the latest target of this specific form of vitriol. “People are saying, ‘A woman should never take a man away from his family, that’s all that this is.’ Um, have you seen his family?”
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The 2015 BBC documentary “Reinventing the Royals” chronicled some of the royal family’s purported bad behavior. Per The Daily Beast, royal insiders claimed that King Charles III had a courtier leak negative and erroneous stories about his sons to the British press in a bid to boost his own image. As far as the accusations that Meghan made Harry leave his family are concerned, in 2017, Harry told the Daily Mail that he desperately wanted to step down as a working royal long before he met his wife.
