Keeping It In The Family — Is This The Real Reason The Royals Hate Meghan?
If you aren’t a cousin, then you aren’t part of the family
There has been a lot of press coverage recently after Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were interviewed by Oprah and spoke about their troubles with the royal family.
Media everywhere has seized upon the similarities between Princess Diana and Meghan. Diana was also ostracised from the British Royal family, and some conspiracy theories think the Royal Family played a part in her death.
Could the differences between the British Royals and Diana and Meghan be because they are not part of the family? That is, they weren’t related by blood to the royals before their marriage.
There is a history of intermarriage and inbreeding within the Royal Family and a reluctance for outsiders to be admitted. Edward VIII (uncle of current Queen Elizabeth) was forced to abdicate the throne after less than a year when he caused a constitutional crisis by proposing to American Wallis Simpson. The reason for the crisis? She was twice divorced, and her ex-husbands were both alive, something that was politically and socially unacceptable as a prospective queen consort.
So why are the Royal Family so guarded against outsiders?
