Meghan Markle and her husband, Prince Harry, are said to be ready to make many concessions to win over King Charles III. The power couple must be cognizant that many things have changed in the British Monarchy after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
The new King does not handle things the way his mother used to. While Prince Harry and his wife hurt the late Monarch with some of their actions, she always found ways to keep her responses measured.
King Charles has taken stronger stances signaling that he is not one to be played with, and it seems that his approach is working. The renegade royals are backtracking on many important issues.
Despite the progress, things might never be quite normal between the two sides. Some observers say that the two parties have fundamentally different ideas of what it means to be a royal.
King Charles, Prince William, Prince Harry, and Meghan Markle all want to do some good. However, most of the time, they do not see eye to eye on the right way to get things done. Some recent reports have laid bare the differences between the competing visions.
For example, The Duke of Sussex always pushed for things to go faster. He wanted to have a significant impact right away.
One royal source told The Daily Mail: “He’d feel frustrated by the bureaucracy, being told ‘you cannot do that, you cannot visit them, you cannot announce this there, because there is something else happening with the palace.’ It rattled him . . . It made him think: “I’m being held back; I’m having my time wasted.”
The insider continued: “He had this thing that he had a shelf life. He was fixated [on] this. He would compare himself with his uncle [Prince Andrew]. He would say: ‘I have this time to make this impact. Because I can.’ Until [Prince] George turns 18, was the way he was thinking about it. Then I will be the also-ran. You can still have an impact in your 40s, 50s, even longer. So long as you set the right foundations now. You’re not going to retire like a footballer at 35.”
This is a big contrast to King Charles and Prince William, who have approached the royal life with a bigger focus on the idea of service instead of amassing measurable accomplishments.
Markle also thought that she had to play a bigger role in the royal family, and not getting her way was a source of enormous frustration.
Royal expert Katie Nicholl told The Royal Beat from True Royalty TV: “I think there were culture clashes, there were personality clashes, but I think ultimately, Meghan did want to be queen bee.”
Moreover, she reportedly pushed for her staff to do things faster. This was a big change of pace for the employees in The Palace.
Nicholl added: “She expected an immediacy that went with those dawn emails so that she’d hatch an idea, want it executed by the next day, and didn’t quite get that the palace worked at a different pace. But my understanding from the people that I spoke to, many of whom did work for the Sussexes, was that Meghan in particular [would] want everything done now.”
Those different claims show a couple in a hurry, while King Charles waited patiently for a long time to make a difference.
