Prince Philip's scathing secret nickname for Meghan Markle revealed in a new book

The Duke of Edinburgh called what he considered a similarity between Markle and another Royal.


There are a lot to say about Meghan Markle , artificial tabloid stories, to chat on his past, to names. And, according to a new biography, a senior member of the Royal family I also made action, making up his own sarcastic nickname for the Duchess of Sussex. As indicated by the New York Post ,, Prince Philip had a scathing nickname for Markle who was Inspired by another member of the royal family.

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In the new book My mother and me: the inner history of the king or our end of the queen , royal biographer Ingrid Seward writes that Philip, who died in 2021, called Markle the "Duchess of Windsor", which was the title of Wallis Simpson On his marriage to Edward, Duke of Windsor .

Edward became King Edward VIII in January 1936 after the death of his father, King George V . Edward wanted to marry Simpson, who had already divorced his first husband and was divorcing his second. But, because the governments of the United Kingdom and other countries of the Dominion opposed marriage and because, as king, Edward was the church of the Church of England, which did not allow people Divorced to remarry if their ex-spouse was still alive, Edward abdicated the throne less than a year after having become king. He and Simpson then married and moved to France.

Wallis Simpson and Edward, Duke of Windsor in the Bahamas circa 1942
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According to Seward, Philip found Markle's resemblance to Simpson "Uncanny" from the start of her and Prince Harry relationship.

Seward writes ( via the Daily mail ), "While the queen continued to defend Harry's new love, he warned his wife to be prudent. It was strange, he told her how much Meghan reminded him of the Duchess of Windsor. He did not Not just reference to the fact that both were American divorced with black hair, black hair and glamorous. There was a wealth of subtext in his barbed wire remark. "(Markle was married to a film producer Trevor Engelson from 2011 to 2014.)

Philip could not have known at this stage that Markle and Harry would end up resigning as members who work from the royal family in 2020, moving to the United States and having a continuous flaw with other members of the royal family, But the book implies that it suspected that they may not be satisfied with their roles.

The book notes that Queen Elizabeth was "perfectly aware of what Philip meant when he made parallels between Meghan and Wallis" because she had "lived this tumultuous period of royal history, and had been directly affected". Elizabeth's father, King George VI , only became a king because his brother abdicated. Elizabeth would never have been queen if it was not for the abdication of Edward. In addition to that, Simpson and Edward were also scandalous figures due to their Connection with Nazi Germany .

Meghan Markle and royal family members including Prince Philip at her 2018 wedding
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Seward continues: "Indeed, much later, [Elizabeth] would notice in his cut way that Harry had perhaps been" too in love "from the American actress. As for Prince Philip, he never seemed to change Opinion on Meghan. From the moment, he detected his apparent similarity with Wallis, he described it as Dow (abbreviation of the Duchess of Windsor). " AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Seward writes that Elizabeth also recognized that Markle was divorced, but in a different way. The author claims that the late monarch told a close friend that she thought that Markle's dress for her wedding in 2018 with Harry was "too white" for someone who had already been married. "In the opinion of the monarch, it was not appropriate that a divorced remarried to the church be quite flamboyant," said the book.


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