Kensington Palace’s bizarre demand for Meghan Markle during her acting days | Royal | News
Before marrying Prince Harry, Meghan Markle played paralegal Rachel Zane in the popular legal drama Suits, and while her time on the show ended when her relationship with Harry became serious, Kensington Palace allegedly introduced a set of rules for the show’s writers.
Author Tom Bower’s book, Revenge: The War Between Meghan, Harry and the Windsors, explores the couple’s life behind closed doors and reports speaking to 80 people who knew Harry and Meghan during this time. As Harry and Meghan’s love story made headlines, the palace reportedly devised multiple rules to regulate what would be written into the show’s script.
“Fearing the worst from bitter experience, the Palace stepped in to control Meghan’s life. Aaron Korsh was told to pitch all future Suits scripts to Meghan’s manager, Nick Collins,” Bower writes in his book.
According to him: “The scripts were then forwarded to Kensington Palace for approval. Word change orders were sent back to Los Angeles from London.”
Allegedly, the most important rule was applied in Meghan’s final ‘wedding’ scene with the character Mike in the series.
The Palace ordered that Meghan not be photographed in her wedding dress and that she wear a jacket over the dress when not filming.
The Suits writers also took creative liberties with the actor’s final words: “Tongue in cheek, the Suits writers took license with Zane’s final words before saying ‘I do.'” Thinking of Harry, Meghan delivered these lines to her onstage husband Mike: “You are the strongest man I have ever met and you make me stronger… you are the husband I always wanted and I can’t wait to begin our adventure together.”
In 2023, Suits creator Aaron Korsch revealed that the Palace was also “weighing in” on parts of the show’s script involving Meghan Markle. However, he stated that their contributions were minimal.
“There were a few things that we wanted to do that we couldn’t do, not a whole lot, by the way, and it was a little frustrating,” the creator said, citing an example where the Palace forced a line change to prevent Meghan from saying “poppy” on screen.
“The Royal Family did not want him to say that,” he said.
“They didn’t want to put the word poppycock in her mouth. I guess they didn’t want people to conflate things with her saying c**k.” As a result, the writers replaced “poppycock” with “b****.”
However, Telegram It was claimed that these changes were suggested by Meghan’s manager, not the Palace. reported.
Meghan Markle has returned to acting eight years after quitting the film industry. According to Variety, Markle will take on a role as herself in the Amazon MGM Studios production. Close Your Personal Friends. The film stars Lily Collins, Brie Larson, Jack Quaid and Henry Golding.
