Opinion: The Queen Said Meghan Markle Was Evil, So It Must Be True, Right?

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A writer in the British tabloid, The Spectator, claimed a “royal source” told her that Queen Elizabeth had some unkind words for Meghan Markle. Revealed a few months before her passing, the Queen called her relationship and eventual marriage to Prince Harry, a complete catastrophe and that in a word, the woman was evil.

While quite a statement for the queen to be making, why is it surfacing now?

Recent history tells us the more a person or group bangs on about a subject - as Fox News did about The Steal and Dominion voting machines - the more likely they are trying to sell a message and not reporting the truth. A message that benefits one side more than another.

Considering the above title - what is the message about Harry and Meghan that the Palace and Royals are trying to convey? That they are bad through and through? That they lied on Oprah and just made things up to put them in a better light?

But why would they do that so soon after becoming a royal couple and entering a world that financially supports them?

In other words, why would they detach themselves from the gravy train that is British Royalty by telling anyone and everyone how poorly they were treated? How race became an issue within The Firm and how they feared that the life they wanted to lead would never come to be.

It would seem that they would have been far better off just keeping schtum as the Brits would say. Keeping their mouths shut about what others said and did, even those very close to Prince Harry and just kept calm and carried on.

If they had done that instead of presenting their case on Oprah, things would have remained relatively peaceful. Life could have progressed similarly to how it progresses for other royals.

Opening hospitals and museums. Cutting ribbons, and presenting a well-organized and professional front that keeps the connection between the British present and the British past intact, when the differences between the two are becoming more and more difficult to conceal.

Sources, royal or otherwise, are interesting creatures. They’ve remained hidden behind some amazing revelations. Journalists protect them at great costs - think of Watergate and the Pentagon Papers and the bringing down of a US president in the 1970s. Police also use them to solve crimes.

Gossip columnists utilize them to pepper their stories with sizzle and keep the readers coming back.

Even politicians use them to support actions that are essentially unsupportable in real-world terms. Using words and phrases associated with beliefs that belong in other parts of our society, like in religions or private organizations as an example. Then making these phrases their own as they justify voting against something very important to most of us.

Like limiting the sale of AR-15 rifles. Or restoring access to abortions because they are strongly opposed by the NRA or various Christian organizations.

Hidden sources are useful when the person has infiltrated a gang or terrorist cell and is risking their life to help take them down. But sources located somewhere within Buckingham Palace simply don’t have the same gravitas as someone spending years pretending to be someone else for the sole purpose of helping a society remain free.

Especially when that source might just have a vested interest in preventing any more revelations from coming to light when their collective power might eventually undo the institution that they depend on for their livelihood.

That the Queen would reveal such things in closed company after a few drinks, certainly belies the character and true gravitas that she displayed throughout her life and certainly during her 70-year reign as the Queen of England.

Isn’t it possible, considering the history and veracity of hidden sources as a whole, that this statement about Meghan was more of the same questionable information being “leaked” on a regular basis to the British press as part of an ongoing quid pro quo relationship between the two institutions?

Should we believe it? Any of it?

Yes, Royalty in the UK is big business. Tourists from around the world visit castles and palaces and take tours back through history, pushing upward of £2B into the national economy. So, in many respects the royals do pay for themselves and the Sussexes appear hellbent on undermining all of this for their own personal reasons.

There appears to be more than enough room for doubt.

And the words apparently used by the late Queen - complete catastrophe and evil to describe the situation. After all, evil is not a word normally bandied about during cocktails or an interlude at the Opera. One usually reserves such a word for dictators, predators, corporations that strip away pension funds from employees, and serial killers.

That the 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth would utter something like this after a G & T seems particularly out of character for her. But maybe not for those with a good and compelling reason to keep things the way they are. Relatively untouched by reality, for as long as they can.