Kate Middleton, reportedly, talked to Queen Elizabeth about Meghan Markle's behavior as it was concerning to several of the royal staff. Just six months after she became a part of the royal family, Meghan apparently caused friction that Kate thinks needed her and the Queen's intervention.
According to the authors of Royals at War, Dylan Howard and Andy Tillett, Kate Middleton made a pact with Queen Elizabeth to "guide" Meghan as the royal spotlight can be challenging. Apparently, the Queen agreed with Kate's assessment that Meghan's behavior will be a cause for major concern inside the palace.
Howard and Tillett said in their book that Queen Elizabeth wanted to avert another disaster like that of Princess Diana's struggles as a royal. Thus, guiding Meghan seemed like the right move but it still did not stop the Duchess of Sussex from stepping back from royal life with the Queen's grandson, Prince Harry.
Meghan did suffer quite a turbulent time as a royal, which was made worse by the constant bullying she received from the press. According to the Insider, the Duchess of Sussex had a strained relationship with the palace staff and miscommunication has been the biggest factor.
Prince Harry's wife stated in documents she filed in court that she was not protected by the royal family institution against the bad press. She was prevented to speak against the false stories and Kensington Palace did not attempt to correct these stories in the tabloid media.
But royal observers said that Kensington Palace immediately denounced a story about Kate Middleton in a Tatler piece that also contained a "swathe of inaccuracies and false misrepresentation." The palace also defended Prince Andrew in his involvement with the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in a statement in 2019 by correcting rumors that he was "forced" to resign.
Richard Fitzwilliams, a royal commentator, said that it is rare for the palace to issue statements against what the media has printed. Speaking out against the Tatler story on Kate Middleton was one of those rare occasions because the royal offices, reportedly, only address stories with the "most serious" impact.
A source said that the royal offices did not do the same for Meghan because it would only give tabloids more fodder to continue writing negative stories about the Duchess of Sussex. Compared to Kate Middleton, the press kept writing hundreds of stories about Meghan that it was impossible to correct all of it. Doing so would add "another layer of sensation."
