Meghan Markle's controversial claim about late Queen dismissed by insiders

Meghan Markle famously spoke astir her archetypal curtsy to the precocious Queen successful the Sussexes' Netflix bid - and erstwhile again, her recollections person been called into question

The Duchess of Sussex's comments astir the precocious Queen person erstwhile again been called into question.

Her arguable remarks person resurfaced successful a scathing nonfiction from Vanity Fair, published connected January 17, which examines Harry and Meghan's beingness successful the 5 years since they stepped down arsenic elder royals. Meghan famously spoke astir gathering the precocious monarch successful the couple's Netflix docuseries, during which she performed an exaggerated curtsy arsenic Harry sat looking on.

She recalled her archetypal brushwood with the Queen, stating that she discovered conscionable earlier luncheon astatine Royal Lodge - location to Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson - that she would conscionable Her Majesty. "It's surreal. It wasn't similar immoderate large infinitesimal of like, 'Now you're going to conscionable my grandmother," Meghan recounted.

"I didn't cognize I was going to conscionable her until moments before. We were successful the car, and we were going to Royal Lodge for lunch. And he's like, 'Oh my grandmother's here, she's gonna beryllium determination aft church.' And I retrieve we were successful the car and we were driving up and he's similar 'You cognize however to curtsy right?' And I conscionable thought it was a joke," she said.

"How bash you explicate that to people? How bash you explicate that you bow to your grandma and that you would request to curtsy? Especially to an American. That's weird," Harry said. "Now, I'm starting to realise this is simply a large deal. I mean, Americans volition recognize this. We person Medieval Times, meal and tournament. It was similar that."

"I curtsied arsenic though I was like," she said, pausing to bash a theatrical heavy curtsy with a giggle astatine the end. "'Pleasure to conscionable you, your Majesty." At the time, Meghan's comments raised eyebrows, with viewers questioning whether she was being wholly truthful. And present the validity of her statements person been called into question again.

One of the contributors to the Vanity Fair article, Tom Fitzgerald, told the publication: "Meghan is the benignant of pistillate who would cheque a paper retired online earlier going to a edifice to prime what she was going to eat. So the thought that she didn’t cognize she was expected to curtsy for the [late] Queen, I conscionable didn’t find it peculiarly believable, due to the fact that [based on] everything she ever told america astir herself, I cannot ideate that she went into gathering the Royal Family wholly cold, with nary probe whatsoever."

In the past, sceptics person pointed to a 2010 country from Suits wherever Meghan's quality Rachel Zane does a rather tiny playful curtsy to lawyer Louis Litt (Rick Hoffman). Furthermore, Harry recalled the concern otherwise successful his memoir Spare. According to the Duke, his aunt Sarah had already taught Meghan however to curtsy earlier the meeting. "Fergie came out, a small emotional, and asked, 'Can you curtsy?' Meg shook her head. Fergie past demonstrated, and Meg imitated her," Harry wrote.

Elsewhere successful their Netflix documentary, Meghan said she had to Google the British nationalist anthem successful the aboriginal days of her narration with Prince Harry. The mother-of-two admitted that she repeatedly practiced the patriotic rendition of 'God Save The Queen', which she had taught herself online, earlier joining the Royal Family.

She besides said that 'the question is not a thing', claiming that she wasn't trained to determination her manus immoderate peculiar benignant of mode - but jokingly added she didn't privation to flail her hands 'like an American'.