Alongside the unfolding scandals from the House of York, the British press is predictably attacking the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. This has been happening since 2019, it’s not new to any of us tracking the Windsors and their moves for the past decade. What’s crazy is that, these days, there’s nothing new to say about Meghan and Harry from a royal perspective. They haven’t been in the royal fold for almost six years. Which explains all of the “remember when” pieces being churned out on a weekly basis. The royals and royalists continue to tell on themselves too. We’ve gone from “we welcomed Meghan with open arms” and “we gave her everything she needed to succeed” to.. we hated her on sight, we always treated her with suspicion, we made up childish nicknames about her and we wouldn’t even refer to her by her name or title.
An insider revealed the nickname Palace staffers had for Meghan Markle before she and Harry rescinded their royal duties. The moniker may seem innocent; however, it was a ‘not-so-subtle’ dig at the Duchess, likening her to the Duchess of Windsor, who is said to have triggered King Edward VIII’s abdication.
Meghan was dubbed ‘The American’ in reference to Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced US socialite.
It wasn’t the only nickname Meghan earned during her stint as royalty. Prince Philip dubbed the 44-year-old ‘DOW’, short for Duchess of Windsor, also in reference to Simpson. She also copped some cruel nicknames online from ‘Me-gain’ to ‘Duchess Difficult’ and ‘MeMeMeghan’.
King Charles came up with the bizarre but favourable moniker ‘Tungsten’ for Meghan because she is ‘tough’ and ‘unbending’. Royal commentator Richard Kay revealed that a palace insider told him they and their colleagues coined the nickname not long after Meghan and Harry’s wedding.
‘We call her ‘The American’,’ one figure who worked for Queen Elizabeth told the editor, adding it was a ‘not-so-subtle nod’ to the Duchess of Windsor. Simpson is one of the most controversial royal figures in modern British history, as her relationship with King Edward VIII led to his abdication in 1936.
It’s sad that the frame of reference is so narrow that calling Meghan “the American” is meant to evoke Wallis Simpson. Like… is that their sole interaction with an American woman? Jesus. British people are never beating the “living like it’s still World War II” allegations. Anyway, the Mail says in this piece that “Duchess Difficult” and the other childish names were made online. This is false – just a few months after Meghan and Harry’s 2018 wedding, palace staff were openly bragging to Tatler and the tabloids about all of the ugly nicknames they had given Meghan. But they welcomed her with open arms, remember? Remember how they also made Meghan use a Rolls Royce once used by Wallis as well?
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Hang it up, DM. The stench coming from Royal Lodge is just too powerful.
As for “The American,” you betcha. She’s home and you can’t have her back.
@Eurydice – BEAUTIFUL retort, just outstanding. Comment of the day.
The American comes from a country that bailed out Britain with billion dollar loans in 1946 right after WW2. But Duchess of Windsor . Well ok then.
Not to mention all of the Dollar Princesses that bailed out the aristocracy before that. Women like Winston Churchill’s own mother!
I can not read that in anything other than the Dowager Countess of Grantham’s voice. RIP Maggie Smith!
‘The American’?! How frightfully witty… NOT.
They were jealous that Meghan was so much better at the job than Kate.
So dear The American,
please come as a tourist and bring your money with you. You our royals are good for tourism…
Hmm… many a rich American lady were married to British men whose lovely mansions would have had to be sold if they couldn’t find funding to help them. No I’m not talking about Downton Abbey. It seems the Americans can be useful for things like helping them get rid of their WWII problems and saving their very big mansions from going into bankruptcy. But who will save the royals from their incredibly big pedo problem? These nasty little articles won’t do the job.
That’s what the British call a lot of Americans no? Let’s they forget how they were fawning over the Orange American and his entourage when they visit a few weeks ago. That they thought it was a compliment that the cosplay American president was drooling over Katie in his poopy diaper
We know what they really want to call Meghan. Hating-ass, racist-ass losers.
I have no doubt that there was another word they used for Meghan but apparently they swear that they’re not racist. Bragging about the nicknames they had for Meghan doesn’t make them look good and as Kaiser said it undermines the Palace narrative that they welcomed Meghan and gave her everything she needed. I’ve always believed that the staff ill- treated and disrespected her and the reason KP briefed the press that she was a bully because they feared that Meghan would talk about how the staff and William and Kate abused her.
Call her The American? That’s just fine. We claim her and will always be happy to keep her. It’s too bad that the Brits don’t have someone as beautiful, prepared, intelligent, and well spoken to represent them.
Will this be a slur they use to refer to Pope Leo, who KC3 and his mistress are forcing themselves onto Thursday?
Right, and they still have Andrew, the Pedo Prince to deal with.
Do they really think this is going to distract from Andrew? And given what’s coming out every single day, do they really think either framing Meghan as someone bad for existing and having the audacity to be American, or pointing out that you were cruel and mean to her from the start helps?
I don’t get these stories at this point. Even if Meghan was the rudest worst boss ever, she hasn’t worked there in half a decade. She also doesn’t want to come back, and no one wanted to file an official complaint. Why are we still going over this? When you have lazy current employees? And former employees who were committing criminal acts?
The 18 months she spent in that country must have been absolute HELL!
Seriously … my heart aches for her. No wonder she reached the brink.
These are horrible, hateful, racist people. I hope they enjoy William’s dreary reign and covering for his imcompetence and petulance.
My goodness have they listened to themselves? Seriously, they sound like a bunch of play ground bullies. Are these the people who we’re supposed to look up to as the “best of us” How many different names have we heard that pack of hyenas call the woman they so say welcomed “with open arms”? Surely, basic good manners would dictate that Meghan is addressed by her name? If this is what they’re prepared to put into the public domain, I dread to think what it was like for Meghan behind closed doors.
PS: Invoking Meghan’s name still won’t take the heat off Andrew Windsor!”
I doubt Philip called Wallis names or referred to her much. In the sixties there was a thawing out of relationship between the Queen and David and Wallis. She and Philip and Charles visited them when the Duke was ill and visited them. From the photos of this visit, they greeted David and Wallis cordially and Charles wrote to David. The Windsors were invited to a Memorial dedication to Queen Mary. Besides being Americans, There is a no real comparison between Meghan and Wallis. First of all Wallis was married mistress of Edward/David. Harry and Meghan were free to date. And three out of four of the Queen’s children divorced, and two remarried.
She hasn’t been there in years. They look so pathetic still talking about Meghan as if she just left.
Welp, way to make the RF and KP sounds like a bunch of nasty low-class people. Yuck. Every time they talk trash about Meghan they are trashing their own brand. And yep, most of the nicknames came from the Tatler article and then got repeated by the telegraph and the tabloids. The abuse did not originate on SM.
They really need to stop these self confessions of arrogant bullying a woman who left that evil family years ago and start cleaning up the mess they have with the leftovers. You have a dying king a gin soaked mistress queen, a lazy entitled violently angry heir with his disappearing wife and add in the Pedo and his ex but no let’s write how we still bully the tiny American biracial women. What a great Monarchy 🙄🙄
What a load of ripe.. So much “LOYALTY” in the Royal disfunctional family. Who is next to get roasted?
So close to a self-own, that they would view this as a dig and she would just hear it as a factual statement. But as per usual, they sniped at her behind her back non-stop. And they think this makes them look professional. It’s amazing how many things about the “Special Relationship” have a nasty underside. I mean. Christopher Hitchens wrote once about witnessing his father jump into a pool fully clothed at a neighbour’s party to rescue a little girl who was drowning unnoticed by anyone there, and the astonishment that greeted him when he emerged. And he recalled one detail — in the midst of gushing shock and gratitude, there was one very sour puss, clearly put out at being shown up as a hopeless parent or bystander, just roiling in his own bile. He said that was when — as a kid — he intuitively made the connection between the way that people in his parents’ generation sneered at Americans, and the way they actually were. It’s funny, being American in the UK, I can kind of tell when people are trying to pull rank by playing up their Britishness, if you like, and it never — ever — works. It’s not a status. It’s a relative world. It doesn’t give you superpowers. Americans who come to this country and remonstrate about the deplorable state of infrastructure, housing, or the NHS, aren’t telling people here anything that they don’t know already. They just really resent hearing in in our accent. It’s not pulling rank, on our part, it’s just — the comparisons with EU countries are *so* vivid, when they left the EU, it was like, frying pan, fire.
My British inlaws hated when I corrected them about anything British. Like “Lady Diana wasn’t a commoner. She was a lady.” I would say, “She is not a peer, so she’s a commoner. Her father is an earl and he is a peer. Lady is a courtesy title as the daughter of an earl.”
Just being British they assumed they knew more than me about everything.
They were right, in the strictest sense. Before her marriage, she did not carry a title. “Lady” is not a title, it’s an honorific. Blame the patriarchy.
Way for the BRF and its court to show they have no grace, no class, no magnanimity, no basic decency. Great job, dumbasses! 👍
The Fail is proving what Meghan, Harry and their supporters have been saying for years prior to them stepping down. The only reason the Sussex Squaf exists is because of the royal family, courtiers and UK medias constant bullying of Meghan. Harry and Meghan left the UK in 2020, yet all of these “nicknames” they have leaked to the media to make her out to be the bully, have been known and written about since before the wedding or before they even left to vacation with infant Archie in Canada. The abuse, lies and projection of who they want the world to believe who she is has been documented in the Fail, the Sun, Tatler and so many other UK media. This and the well documented abuse and attacks of Meghan’s character, nationality, gender and race are the proof that it was never Meghan who was the bully but the Royal family, their courtiers and the media. That’s why they were okay continuing to spread the lie that Meghan made Kate cry and not correcting that lie. That’s why they are forever mentioning the Oprah interview, the documentary and Spare because all of them were Harry and Meghan with their own faces, voices and words spoke the truth to correct the years long lies about them. Even Charles using the nickname Tungsten is a racist slap in the face of who Meghan is and was a sign of his and the other royals behind the curtain abuse of Meghan because at the time if they were really welcoming to her there shouldn’t have been any reason for him to see her as needing to be strong and unbendable. As a
woman, especially a black woman, it was an extremely difficult “nickname” to see placed on her as the only POC in that racist family because it meant to me that they thought that it meant that they could push and abuse her unrelentingly and she would continue to not bend. It is like they saw it as their permission to continue to abuse her to see how strong she was and how much she was willing to take. That’s why they treat her (and Harry) like they are runaway slaves that they are determined to continue to chase. It’s sickening and these people make me hate them more and more each day.
How is Tungsten racist?
I always thought Charles got her right. Tungsten is hard to bend, to scratch, and shiny. Just like they couldn’t bend or break Meghan, she kept shining.
I don’t understand why you think liking her to a material reflecting her shiny spine is racist. Didn’t he rather rightfully acknowledge her strength?
Not only did they abuse Meghan nonstop but they continue to do so and actually are bragging about it. Shouldn’t we be hearing their nicknames for Andrew? Very bad reflection on Charles that he called her tungsten. He recognized that her response to all the abuse was strength of character but he never publicly said a word in her defense even when she was pregnant. I suppose that considering Charles weakness of character he was probably happy that the vitriol was directed at her and not him. Shame on him and William.
It always amuses me that the British seem to feel that being called American is an insult. I’m obviously not talking about every person, but a big majority really feel superior about that. Whatever floats their boat.
I guess it was time once again to try and fool the populace into thinking that Harry was next in line to the throne. Edward was King. Harry was never going to be King and he knew it. Perhaps the bm needs a refresher course on the line of succession for the brf.
I’m getting a copy of Virginia’s book. I wonder how many people in the UK will be reading it, too. They are as delusional as the Orange Menace if they think they can distract people from the truth she tells.
Losers. How soon y’all forget. The Americans saved your limey asses, if I recall… else, you’d all be speaking German, like your royal family!