Twitter Questions Meghan Markle's Statement She Didn't Know Much About Royal Family

A royal biographer recently reignited the social media debate on how much Meghan Markle knew about the royal family and Prince Harry before she began dating him in 2016.

In their engagement interview with BBC in 2017, the Duchess of Sussex said she didn’t know much about the royal family or how big a deal Prince Harry was in the U.K. prior to meeting him. "Because I'm from the States, you don't grow up with the same understanding of the royal family. And so while I now understand very clearly there's a global interest there, I didn't know much about him," she said at the time.

However, some royal fans and social media users claimed that royal biographer Andrew Morton's recent article for the Daily Mail, titled "Why Diana is the third wheel in Harry and Meghan's marriage," appeared to suggest otherwise.

"Tears coursed down the cheeks of 16-year-old Meghan Markle and her friends as they watched the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, and never more so than at the poignant moment when the cameras zoomed in on the Royal coffin," wrote Morton, author of "Diana: In Pursuit of Love," "Meghan: A Hollywood Princess" and several other books on the British royal family.

Morton cited unnamed "family friends" as saying that Markle was fascinated by Princess Diana's style and humanitarian mission. He also wrote that the former actress had watched the late princess' wedding to Prince Charles with her friend Suzy Ardakani, whose mother gave Markle a copy of the biography "Princess, Diana: Her True Story."

Some royal fans suggested that Morton's claims appeared to contradict Markle's previous statements.

"So which is it? She shed tears over his mother’s funeral or she had no idea who he was when they met?" one person tweeted.

"I thought she didn’t know them," another commented.

"So which is which? She didn't know about the royal family? Or she's so obsessed with them since then?" a third user wrote. "The lies and more lies from [Meghan] again."

Some urged other users to stop dragging Princess Diana's name into speculations. "Oh for the love of God, stop this. It’s perverse. Leave her to RIP," one person wrote.

Other royal fans, meanwhile, are more focused on Markle's recent New York City tour with Prince Harry and her gorgeous looks during their three-day visit.

"I believe in Meghan Markle supremacy," one fan tweeted.

"Second event back and she’s truly eating the girls up!!! I'd be shaking and crying," another wrote.

"Meghan Markle is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen oh my god," a third fan wrote alongside photos of Markle from the Global Citizen Live concert in Central Park.

Contrary to Morton's claims, Markle told Oprah Winfrey during their March sit-down that she went into her marriage with Prince Harry not knowing much about the royal family.

"I didn't grow up knowing much about the royal family," she was quoted by Insider as saying, a year after she and Prince Harry stepped back as working royals and moved to California. "It wasn't something that was part of conversation at home. It wasn't something we followed."

The duchess told Winfrey that she had never romanticized royal life. But she said that she always thought that it was similar to "what you read in fairy tales."

"I didn't do any research about what [being a royal] would mean," Markle said. "I never looked up my husband online. I just didn't feel the need to because everything that I needed to know, he was sharing with me — or everything we thought I needed to know, he was telling me."

Markle also said her family had been just as clueless as she was about the royal family, sharing that her mother, Doria Ragland, even once asked her whether Princess Diana ever did an interview.

"Now, I can say, 'Yes, a very famous one,'" Markle said. "But my mom doesn't even know that."