Meghan Markle ‘Out Of Tune’ With Prince Harry And Kate Middleton One Year Later

It’s been one year since Meghan Markle was accused of being out of sync with the royal family. Last March, Rachel Johnson, a British journalist, publicly called out the former actress, now Duchess of Sussex, for being “a bit out of tune” with then-fiance Prince Harry and Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton and Prince William.

The comment came after Meghan’s first joint Royal Foundation Forum engagement with the trio prior to her and Prince Harry’s royal wedding. At the event, Markle chose to shine a light on women’s empowerment, specifically naming the Me Too and Time’s Up movements, something that didn’t sit well with Johnson.

"Wow. I'm all for women being empowered and using their voices and people (ie men) 'hearing' them. But this was risky on a couple of fronts. Over here, we secretly don't like women who speak out too loudly and often (I should know), let alone women who order other women to speak out and men to listen," Johnson wrote in an opinion piece for the UK’s Mail on Sunday in March 2018.

"... As a nation, we certainly prefer Royal women who don't really speak, like the Queen, or the Duchess of Cambridge, as demonstrated by that No 1 hit about a perfect girlfriend with the lyric 'you say it best when you say nothing at all.'"

She continued, writing, “Meghan would do well to remember she is becoming a member of a constitutional hierarchy, which depends on everyone knowing their exact place in the pecking order, and toeing endless invisible lines.

In theory, the Royal Wives don’t do politics: they accept posies from little girls, they produce heirs and spares, they don’t go around using their romantic entrees into the Firm as a platform to lobby for lasting and much needed change in the patriarchal power structures of society – in a country they haven’t even lived in for more than a few months.”

Johnson left Mail on Sunday in August after six years with the publication.