Buckingham Palace Criticized For Its Response To Meghan Markle's Miscarriage: 'Huge Missed Opportunity'

Buckingham Palace received flak from a royal commentator after declining to comment when asked about Meghan Markle's miscarriage.

In an op-ed for The New York Times a week ago, Markle announced that she suffered a miscarriage in July. Russell Myers, the royal editor at the Daily Mirror, appeared on talkRadio and said he reached out to the palace about the issue, but the latter declined to comment.

"I think this is a huge, huge missed opportunity for the royal family," Myers said as quoted by Insider.

"They should have made a public statement to say, this is a really brave and honest thing to do, because just on the very basis that it would have mended some of the cracks in the relationship that we've been talking about for months and months."

Although Buckingham Palace didn't give further comment to Daily Mirror, the outlet credited a "palace insider" who said, "There is, of course, much understandable sadness in the family."

Meanwhile, Myers felt that if the palace had commented it would have provided a bigger conversation and would not be "just be Meghan out on her own."

Twitter users have mixed opinions on the issue. Many sympathized with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. However, several Twitter users also expressed support to the palace. The netizens agreed that Buckingham Palace doesn't have to comment on the issue.

"What do you want Buckingham Palace to do? Put a sign out that Meghan Markle had a miscarriage? Like myself who I would never say anything not because of shame is because people bring it all the time. That's why I said nothing when I had a 2nd one. No it's not taboo. It never was," one user wrote.

"What has it got to do with Buckingham Palace when they want to keep on producing?" another added.

"Not surprising given Markle’s mendacious track record and daily new bandwagons, seeking publicity to mitigate damaged reputation," another wrote.

Some Twitter users also slammed the duchess for sharing the story. They accused Markle of using it for money and attention. However, several also defended Markle saying that op-eds are not paid and they believed Markle only did it to help others who went through or are going through the same pain and grief.