Meghan Markle thought royals were 'belittling Harry' with 'small' royal home, book claims

Harry and Meghan spent the aboriginal days of their courtship astatine Nottingham Cottage, and it was wherever the Prince proposed. But Meghan felt the spot was 'belittling', according to a royal author

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made their archetypal location unneurotic in Nottingham Cottage, and it went connected to diagnostic heavy successful the couple's explosive Netflix docuseries, Harry & Meghan. But the Duchess was little than impressed by her archetypal royal residence, according to an explosive caller book.

The two-bedroom cottage, located successful the grounds of Kensington Palace, has a affluent royal history. Prince William and Princess Kate resided determination unneurotic aft their matrimony successful 2011 and spent the archetypal fewer months of Prince George's beingness determination earlier relocating successful 2013. That aforesaid year, Prince Harry moved into 'Nott Cott' and it aboriginal became the mounting for the Sussexes' aboriginal courtship; Harry adjacent proposed to Meghan successful the 1,324 quadrate feet property.

But Meghan was unhappy with the residence, according to royal writer Tom Quinn. Writing successful his caller book, Yes Ma'am: The Secret Life of Royal Servants - which has been excerpted successful The Times - Quinn states: "'Meghan felt it was truthful tiny that it indispensable beryllium a reflection of however the royal family were belittling her husband. She conscionable didn't recognize that existent royals don't attraction overmuch astir houses and worldly possessions because, having ever had them, they instrumentality them for granted, said 1 subordinate of unit who helped retired regularly astatine Nottingham Cottage."

Quinn continued: "A alternatively beauteous location successful the grounds of a celebrated palace hardly seemed to Harry the equivalent to being forced to unrecorded successful a shed astatine the extremity of the garden. But for Meghan things were much complex. She saw Kate and William surviving conscionable a fewer yards distant successful Kensington Palace itself with teams of live-in servants."

It's not the archetypal clip Nottingham Cottage has travel up successful conversation. In his bombshell memoir Spare, Harry, wrote: "I was excited to invited Meg to my home, but besides embarrassed. Nott Cott was nary palace."

Harry and Meghan moved retired of Nottingham Cottage successful 2019, mounting up location successful Frogmore Cottage successful the grounds of Windsor Castle - a wedding acquisition from the precocious Queen - up of the commencement of their archetypal child, Archie. But Meghan was again said to beryllium unhappy with their surviving arrangements and made a petition that the monarch deemed wholly "inappropriate".

According to The Times, Harry and Meghan wanted to unrecorded wrong the castle itself and reportedly asked if "living quarters could beryllium made disposable aft their marriage". At the time, lone the Queen and Philip had backstage apartments wrong the existent castle, with everyone other surviving elsewhere connected the estate. The monarch deemed their petition 'inappropriate' and "politely but firmly suggested" that they unrecorded successful Frogmore Cottage instead.

In her publication The New Royals, royal adept Katie Nicholl says the Queen's determination to springiness the mates Frogmore was a 'big deal' and that she had hoped Harry and Meghan would "respect" her generosity. Her relative Lady Elizabeth Anson, who died successful 2020, is quoted arsenic saying: "The cottage was a large deal. The Queen's entranceway into the gardens is close adjacent to their cottage. It is fundamentally her backmost yard, her solitude, and her privacy.

"She was giving that up successful gifting Harry and Meghan Frogmore Cottage. We each thought it was precise large of her. She said, 'I anticipation they'll respect it.'"

Of course, Harry and Meghan nary longer unrecorded connected the Windsor estate. The mates stepped down from royal duties astatine the commencement of 2020 and moved to California, wherever they proceed to live. They had hoped to support their UK location but successful March 2023 they were instructed to determination out. A spokesperson for Harry and Meghan astatine the clip confirmed they "have been requested to vacate their residence astatine Frogmore Cottage".