Meghan Markle’s Royal Breach: The Truth About Her Designer Freebies

In a recent revelation, Prince Harry has shared some interesting details about his life as a Royal.

While most of the media attention has been focused on his wife, Meghan Markle, there is one controversial detail in Harry's book that has mostly been lost in the media melee.

This problem has nothing to do with the way Royal family members treated Meghan, nor does it have anything to do with some HRH being given something that Meghan and Harry wanted.

No, the story that has caught our attention today has to do with the designer goods that came Meghan's way after she joined the Royal family.

According to Harry, Meghan shared all the freebies she received, including clothes, perfumes, and makeup, with all the women in the office.

At face value, this seems like a generous gesture from a woman who is willing to share the spoils with staffers whose annual salaries are probably a lot less than her annual clothing bill.

However, when we're talking about the Royal family of the UK, is anything ever really that simple?

The problem lies in the eternal paradox that is royalty, or at least the way things are for the working members of the Royal family who officially work on behalf of the sovereign.

On paper, they are amazingly wealthy, but the truth is they often don't have so much cash.

They play a role in the apparatus of state, but they don't have any real power or say.

That's why there are some longstanding guidelines that govern what they can and cannot accept, and this is where things started to get a little bit tricky for Meghan.

To understand this situation better, we've got to rewind to 2014 when Meghan started her lifestyle blog, The Tig.

According to reports, plugs for cosmetics, travel destinations, restaurants, and self-care products made The Tig a dragnet for luxury freebies.

She won a reputation among the marketers of luxury brands of being warmly interested in receiving bags of designer swag.

But then came a certain date in London with Harry, and destiny stepped in.

Brown writes about a publicist who was cc'd in a message to a member of Meghan's team soon after she became the Duchess of Sussex.

Apparently, the memo said, “make sure the publicist knows that she can still send me anything, she's always been one of the good ones.”

Soon, it was reported that Meghan's expectation was that she could keep some of the dresses she had been loaned.

However, this is not how things work in the Royal family.

The Royal family has an official policy for what to do with gifts.

Gifts offered by commercial enterprises in the UK should normally be declined, and the standard practice is for the Royal family to give gifts back.

They have to pay for their own clothes, both on and off duty.

So if you see Catherine showing up wearing some amazing designer number to a playgroup engagement, she did have to pay for that on her own.

In late 2018, it was reported that Meghan's assistant, Melissa Tubati, had left.

Palace sources have said that the clashes between Meghan and Tubati centered on the free gifts that some companies would send to Meghan.

Tubati was apparently punctilious in following the household rule that members of the Royal family cannot accept freebies from commercial organizations.

Her approach did not go down well with Meghan.

In March of 2021, we learned that Meghan had been the subject of a bullying complaint, an allegation that she has always denied.

The alleged bullying claims are believed to include rows that happened when the former actress was told by aides that keeping clothes sent by fashion labels was against Royal protocol.

Sources say boxes of designer garments were sent to Kensington Palace for Meghan after she was unveiled as Harry's girlfriend.

Harry's using this whole story about freebies to try to make Meghan look good.

But in fact, it seems like he accidentally confirmed these reports from the past.

Harry also writes in his memoir that an assistant was asked to resign by Palace HR after they showed them evidence she had traded on her position with Meghan to get freebies.

Now accepting a free cashmere sweater or a free bottle of overpriced perfume is not really a criminal offense.

But what it really demonstrates is that Meghan's view of Royal life and Palace protocol was nowhere close to reality.

It is clear that cultures were really clashing, and celebrity and royalty are not the same thing.

In conclusion, it is important to note that accepting gifts from commercial enterprises is against Royal protocol, and members of the Royal family cannot accept freebies from commercial organizations.

Meghan's actions may have breached this protocol, and this could be a cause for concern.

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