Meghan and Harry Diss Royal Family in Photo Days After First Official Portrait of King Is Revealed: Expert

In the latest salvo of the escalating war between the royals, Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, have returned fire in response to what was perceived by many as an openly hostile action by the new King of…

IJR SyndicatedOct 7, 20223 min read

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— a gesture which raised some eyebrows when they did it during a ceremony last month honoring the late queen.

Royal biographer Tom Bower told PageSix that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were “absolutely” intending to humiliate the Royal family with the release of the photo.

“It was all about, we’re back now on course to build Brand Meghan and the book, the Netflix series, the podcast,” Bower said, according to PageSix.

“You know, she has really got one interest,” Bower added, “and that’s Meghan and the casualties are the Royal family and as far as she’s concerned, that’s terrific.”

In the portrait, Meghan is wearing a bright-red ensemble that some have likened to one worn by Wallis Simpson, an American divorcée whose romance with King Edward VIII prompted her lover to famously abdicate the throne in 1936.

Kristin Contino of PageSix wrote that the portrait had “some royal watchers seeing red.”

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Meghan dominated the photo in her neon-red bow blouse and trousers, which Contino said were valued at over $1,100 and came from Another Tomorrow. In it, she bears what Contino called “a striking resemblance to a 1971 photo of Simpson.”

She pointed out several other times when Meghan had seemed to emulate the late Duchess of Windsor, and shared Twitter posts indicating other royal watchers have noticed it, too.

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Anna Pasternak, the author of “The American Duchess,” a book about Simpson, wrote an article this week for The Daily Mail called “Wallis & Meghan, the Duchesses of Twinsor.” Pasternak wrote that, while there may be similarities between the Sussexes and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, there are certainly differences, as well.

“During her long exile, not once did Wallis bleat about the injustice meted out to her by the royal machinery,” Pasternak wrote.

“Now, some would say she might do well to emulate Wallis in other ways, too — and practice a dignified silence.”

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.