Former Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle was given her nicknames by the royal staff, not the press.
Markle was nicknamed “Duchess of Difficult” and “Me-Gain” by staff, royal expert and author Tom Quinn told Fox News in an interview published Wednesday.
“The nicknames, they’re inevitable,” Quinn told Fox News. “The British press are famously good at taking someone and building them up and saying they’re absolutely wonderful. And then when that story runs out of steam, they need something else. So they then come up with the opposite. They run that person down… The nicknames were picked up by the press and used against Meghan. They did, in fact, come from the palace.” (RELATED: Meghan Markle’s Nickname During Her Time On Suits Has Reportedly Been Revealed)
The staff reportedly felt that Markle was “demanding” and the Duchess was described as “spiky and feisty.”
“It was felt that she was demanding,” Quinn explained. “I think Meghan felt, ‘I’ve got to really do this. I’ve got to show them that I mean business.’ … I think there’s some truth in it, in the problem being that she’s so different. And so that inevitably made it more difficult from the outset for her to be accepted fully as part of the royal family. And the press is very powerful in Britain.”