Letters: What really irritates Meghan’s critics

Meghan’s adroitness

Sir: Tanya Gold suggests that people criticise Meghan Markle because she is mixed race and a woman, and states it is because she has dared to attack the royal family (‘In defence of Meghan’, 13 March). I think that misses the point. For a great number of people, her narrative simply does not ring true. Over the past few decades, thousands of media articles have accused the royal household of being claustrophobic, pedantic and antiquated. But unlike the young and naive Diana, Meghan was a thirtysomething TV star with agents and PR people when she met Prince Harry. It’s hard to believe she didn’t know what she was letting herself in for.

As Rod Liddle says, Meghan is a subscriber to the current American view that everything is possible as long as you believe it enough. Maybe she thought the force of her personality alone would change what she calls the British establishment.