By Molly Claire Goddard
7:35am PDT, Sep 15, 2025
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Meghan Markle received a rude awakening after marrying
Prince Harry.
Before entering royal life, former Buckingham Palace butler
Grant Harrold claimed the Duchess of Sussex thought being a member of The Firm would be something out of a Disney movie. Unfortunately, she quickly learned it is nothing of the sort.
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The royal family's former employee
Grant Harrold — who worked as a butler for
King Charles III from 2004 until 2011 — believes Meghan Markle's desire to change the rules of The Firm led to her and
Prince Harry leaving England in 2020.
"I think the problem with Meghan is that she went into the organization and she assumed that after watching all the Disney princesses that she thought it was going to be like that," the author of
The Royal Butler said in an
interview. "When you join the royal family, you are given rules and protocols to follow. That's not how it works. You can't change it. She obviously thought she could come in and do her thing, and you can't."
Grant pointed to a situation where the
With Love, Meghan star did not want to attend a royal engagement. "She would rather have lunch with her friends, thinking that was fine and it wasn't," he alleged.
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Grant Harrold attributed
Prince Harry's strained relationships with members of the royal family to his romance with Meghan Markle.
"As soon as Meghan came into his life, everything changed," the writer claimed. "It could be that Harry had his own awakening and suddenly decided he didn't like the organization, but the problem is that Meghan was with him when it happened. The biggest change in Harry's life is Meghan."
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Royal commentator
Helena Chard supports Grant Harrold's theory, agreeing that Meghan Markle falsely thought her life with
Prince Harry would be a glamorous fairytale.
"Meghan obviously met her prince, and I imagine she did feel that being a princess would be sparkly and fun. But Meghan is very much somebody who likes to be center stage," the commentator
explained. "She just wants to do things that she wants to do. And life as a working royal isn't all sparkly."
