Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle are nearly exclusively pitted against each other in tabloids and publications. However, according to new studies, the two women are close in more respects than one. Meghan was not the first royal woman who joined the family unprepared, according to Andrew Morton, Princess Diana's biographer.

As it turns out, Kate Middleton was similarly clueless and struggled to adapt to the royal lifestyle.

Morton said last week on the Royally Obsessed podcast that Markle's allegations that she did not undergo or was not given formal instruction before she joined the royal family were unsurprising. Meghan has previously said in an explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey that royal preparation “might exist for some members of the family,” but “that was not something that was offered to me,” adding that she learned the British national anthem and hymns performed in church services on her own. The biography ‘Diana: Her True Story' is Morton's most well-known work. The late princess had supplied the author with secretly captured recordings to use as content for the novel, which was released in 1992.

‘Nobody told me about the national anthem,' she said during the interview. They don't tell you, to be fair “During his presence on the podcast, Morton said. “It's not like there's a princess school where you wait and run over the procedures from beginning to end. It's something you pick up on your own. It's something you practice by trial and error.”

He mentions Kate Middleton, who was also not offered any formal instruction, despite the fact that she might have been mindful of what was required of her. “The argument I'd say regarding Catherine Middleton is that, while she had the love of her family and was British and understood what to expect, nothing can train you for the degree of strength and attention on you,” Morton said. She was also given very cruel nicknames just before the wedding, ranging from Lazy Katie to Waity Katie, because she had allegedly left her job before marrying Prince William, according to the show.

It took the duchess of Cambridge “quite a long time” to be “in control and in command of what she's doing,” Morton said on the podcast. Middleton married into the royal family on April 29, 2011 – almost a decade, in comparison to Meghan's almost 3 years of having married on May 19, 2018. “Even Diana took years,” he said, “and she was an aristocrat.”

Morton also slammed Markle's claims that she had little freedom at Kensington Palace on the podcast. Meghan claimed her visa, driver's licence, and keys were stripped away from her as she joined the royal family in a candid interview with Oprah. On the podcast, Morton said, “She didn't have any keys, she didn't have a car, she didn't have a place to live.” He said, “She was able to go to New York on a private jet to celebrate a baby shower and make eight overseas trips without wearing handcuffs.”

Meghan and Harry to Royals: “You can't stop us from doing what we want to do”

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry publicly claimed that as part of the Royal Family, they had no influence over their lives, with the Duchess claiming she didn't even have access to her passport, car keys, or drivers license. However, royal sources have spoken out about the couple's actions before they stepped aside, suggesting that the Duke and Duchess were the ones “calling the shots.”

Meghan and Harry were keen to carve out a position that enabled them to make money whilst staying inside the Royal Family in the months leading up to Megxit, according to royal sources.

There was a persistent conversation from the pair along the lines of: “Why can't we do this?” an insider told the Telegraph.

“You can't stop us from doing what we want to do'.

“They were calling the shots and would be the ones instructing the press office on what line to put out.”

According to sources, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex ‘called the shots' and advised press officers about what facts they thought could be made public.

Despite Harry telling Oprah in the couple's explosive interview that no plans had been developed until Megxit was revealed last January, these contrary allegations have surfaced.

It was also revealed that a year before they stood down as senior royals, they were in negotiations with a £1.3 billion-backed US venture.

From early 2019 until after they left as working royals last January, Harry, 36, and Meghan, 39, are said to have met with Quibi, a now-defunct video streaming service.

According to the Daily Telegraph, Prince Harry met with executives from the American corporation in London after returning from the historic Sandringham summit.

According to the report, an agreement for him to have content on the platform reached advanced stages but eventually dropped apart when the app failed to take off.

These latest revelations dispute Meghan's comments in her recent sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey.

During her extraordinary no holds barred interview with Oprah, Meghan Markle spoke about feeling “trapped” and lonely inside the monarchy.

The Duchess of Sussex described moments as a working royal where she “could not feel lonelier” and said the Palace had refused her the opportunity to even go out to lunch with friends. Meghan said that her isolation became so bad that she just left the house “twice in four months.”

According to royal biographer Andrew Morton, the Duchess was often seen heading back to Kensington Palace with bags of food from the Wholefood supermarket on Kensington High Street. “Other friends have seen her out and about with friends at restaurants and phones and said ‘you'll never guess who I'm sat next to”