Despite having made a deal with the Palace to not use it after she leaves her role, Meghan Markle has sparked controversy by signing off a gift with the title Her Royal Highness.
Meghan Markle has come under fresh scrutiny after it emerged she used her royal title in a manner some experts are calling “pompous” – despite having formally stepped back from royal life four years ago.
The Duchess of Sussex, who alongside Prince Harry, agreed to relinquish the use of “Her Royal Highness” as part of their 2020 Megxit agreement with the Palace, appeared to blur the lines of that deal when she sent a gift to a fellow entrepreneur.
The present, a luxury basket gifted to make-up mogul Jamie Kern Lima, came with a monogrammed card signed: “With Compliments of HRH The Duchess of Sussex.” The gesture might have gone unnoticed – had Jamie not shared the moment in footage promoting her new podcast episode featuring Meghan, released this week.
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A source later clarified that despite the style being retained, the duchess’s representative insisted on Monday that the couple use their HRH titles for both private and business purposes.
However, Jennie Bond, a royalist, thinks the duchess is skating on sand.
“She’s walking a very thin line here,” Jennie told the Mirror. “Was the gift of her ‘jam’ to a make-up entrepreneur really just a ‘private’ gift or a commercial placement? I would suggest the jury is out as to whether her quite superfluous use of HRH was for commercial kudos. But I think the Palace will simply rise above it.”
The HRH style has long been a contentious issue, particularly since Prince Andrew was stripped of using it amid scandal. Meghan and Harry, who gave a bombshell interview after sensationally losing his Court of Appeal challenge over his security arrangements in the UK, still technically hold the titles, but they have been expected not to use them, especially in business contexts.
Bond continued, “I don’t believe the King or the Palace will take any formal steps.” It’s “really not worth the row and the ill-feeling it would cause.” However, I do believe Meghan is quite obscene and pompous. You really shouldn’t try to bake your cake and eat it, though, even though I don’t want to be a part of the pile-on.
Jennie then questioned why the duchess continued to rely on her royal identity, which she had once seemed determined to escape.
She abandoned the royal life. She now claims that she and Harry were “in the trenches” within the first six months of our conversation, which begs the question: “Why does she want to hold onto any vestige of a life she so blatantly despised”? she stated. Why try to be superior when America was all about equality, I thought?
Jennie, who was surrounded by royal duties and resides in the Californian hills, spoke with a more sympathetic tone when comparing Meghan and Harry’s current lives.
“I’m happy Meghan and Harry are now seeming so happy,” she said. She said, “She feels like they have found their feet and put their traumatizing past behind them.” It seems to be all about Meghan these days, which is appropriate. With the man she loves by her side, she is a successful, self-sufficient woman who is successful and successful.
She acknowledged the tension that might have persisted in Meghan’s brief but brief tenure as a royal.
“I’ve always believed that part of the problem was that Meghan never understood that she would not be CEO of the Firm she was joining – the Royal Family – and she wouldn’t even be managing director. She would be part of the team. And that perhaps is not her greatest forte.”
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Source: Mirror
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