Meghan Markle's controversial claim about late Queen dismissed by insiders
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The Duchess of Sussex's comments about the late Queen have once again been called into question. Her controversial remarks have resurfaced in a scathing article from Vanity Fair, published on January 17, which examines Harry and Meghan's life in the five years since they stepped down as senior royals. Meghan famously spoke about meeting the late monarch in the couple's Netflix docuseries, during which she performed an exaggerated curtsy as Harry sat looking on.
She recalled her first encounter with the Queen, stating that she discovered just before lunch at Royal Lodge - home to Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson - that she would meet Her Majesty. "It's surreal. It wasn't like some big moment of like, 'Now you're going to meet my grandmother," Meghan recounted.
"I didn't know I was going to meet her until moments before. We were in the car, and we were going to Royal Lodge for lunch. And he's like, 'Oh my grandmother's here, she's gonna be there after church.' And I remember we were in the car and we were driving up and he's like 'You know how to curtsy right?' And I just thought it was a joke," she said.
"How do you explain that to people? How do you explain that you bow to your grandmother and that you would need to curtsy? Especially to an American. That's weird," Harry said. "Now, I'm starting to realise this is a big deal. I mean, Americans will understand this. We have Medieval Times, dinner and tournament. It was like that.".
"I curtsied as though I was like," she said, pausing to do a theatrical deep curtsy with a giggle at the end. "'Pleasure to meet you, your Majesty." At the time, Meghan's comments raised eyebrows, with viewers questioning whether she was being entirely truthful. And now the validity of her statements have been called into question again.
