Meghan Markle’s Royal Family exit mirrors another royal’s brutal fate | Royal | News
Anne Boleyn was executed before the age of 35, having been falsely accused of treason, adultery, and incest with her brother (who was also beheaded).
He endured weeks of imprisonment in the Tower of London and initially faced death by burning at the stake, before Henry VIII’s sentence was reduced to beheading. She was buried in an unmarked grave and accused of being a witch for decades afterwards.
Meghan Markle suffered a “brutal exit” when she and Prince Harry left royal staff and moved to California, a writer has claimed.
Catherine Mayer has written a new book about eight royal women, including Anne, Meghan, Princess Diana and Kate Middleton, as well as queens Elizabeth I, Victoria, Elizabeth II and Camilla (the queen consort). Writing in the Mail on Sunday, she said: “Meghan’s exit has been just as loud, and you don’t have to look far to find its echoes in history.
“Consider this statement: ‘Raised as royalty, he is a hero to some, a hate figure to others. His supporters trumpeted his potential to renew the monarchy. His enemies disdained him as a meddler… Yet the wedding went ahead – accounts vary as to the number of ceremonies – but he was soon gone, his exit brutal.
“‘Fans argue that prejudice and intrigue damaged him. Critics hold him solely responsible for his own downfall.’ If you’re assuming this is a description of Meghan, you’re right; But here’s the thing: The same details apply verbatim to Anne Boleyn.”
He goes on to describe the Duchess of Sussex as “the least popular royal other than Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor” and says: “But if your feelings towards her move beyond indifference into active dislike or even hatred, ask yourself why.
“Could it be that, like her royal predecessors, she was cursed as a prostitute and pitted against other royal women by a culture hostile to women with insidious court briefs and ideas?”
American-born Mayer, a former Women’s Equality Party co-founder and Chairman, claims the Sussexes have been “living in exile since 2020” in an £11 million Mediterranean-style mansion overlooking the Pacific Ocean from the super-rich enclave of Montecito.
It depicts Meghan as “the first biracial member of the family, the first to be declared a feminist, and the first divorcee allowed to marry a Windsor in the Church of England, in a sign of institutional change.”
The author also reveals: “I want to ask a question to those who are clamoring for Meghan to be removed from public life, like a latter-day Anne Boleyn: What exactly did Meghan do to deserve such hostility?”
