The Duchess was cut out of a crucial meeting to decide Prince Harry and Meghan’s future due to concerns that she was “smarter” and would be harder to railroad, according to a new documentary.
After Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex made the shock announcement five years ago that they intended to step back as full-time working royals, the rest of the House of Windsor was left scrambling. Whilst Meghan and Harry had always seemed confident and at ease during their official engagements, and been firm favourites amongst royal fans, behind closed doors things were not working for their young family – and they decided something had to change.
The late Queen Elizabeth called a meeting at her private Norfolk estate, Sandringham, to discuss the next steps, and finalise what Harry and Meghan’s future would look like, and what, if any, ongoing formal ties there would be between them and the monarchy.
The former monarch brought her private secretary, and invited Charles and Prince William – both at the time future Kings – to the meeting, which was dubbed the ‘Sandringham Summit’.
A new documentary on Channel Five – Megxit: Inside the Sandringham Summit – has seen royal experts come together to explain what really happened at the behind-closed-doors sit down with the senior royals, and it includes some shocking claims.
Meghan left the Sandringham Summit to visit Archie, who was then just a baby, after returning to Canada where the Sussex family had been staying for some time.
She had intended to attend the meeting remotely, but this was quickly canceled, so Harry had to go it alone and defend his case solo before his family and the monarchy’s system.
However, a respected royal expert in the documentary claims that Meghan’s “real reason” for not being allowed to attend the meeting was because she was “smarter” than her husband.
According to journalist and expert Emily Andrews, “they all knew Meghan was probably smarter, brighter, had a more linear view of where she and Harry were going and what they wanted, and they probably believed they would achieve a better outcome with just Harry.”
The Duchess of Sussex has made it clear that she didn’t think it was particularly fair that she wasn’t allowed to join the summit that would have such a personal impact on her, saying in the couple’s self-titled Netflix documentary: “Imagine a conversation, a roundtable discussion, about the future of your life, when the stakes are this high, and you as the mom, the wife, and the target in many regards aren’t invited to have a seat at the table.”
In the new documentary for Channel 5, expert Charlotte Griffiths said, “I have to say, I kind of agree with her,” and another royal expert, Jack Royston, echoed these sentiments.
The expert said, “I have a lot of sympathy for Meghan, and I almost had no voice in the room when we watched this all out.”
However, one royal expert, Richard Kay, claimed in the documentary that there was no way to find out who else would have been with Meghan or if someone had been taking notes. They simply couldn’t permit that.
Source: Mirror
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