A new royal biography claims Prince Philip privately referred to Meghan Markle as the \u201cDuchess of Windsor\u201d \u2013 a loaded comparison to Wallis Simpson, the American divorcee whose marriage to Edward VIII caused the 1936 abdication crisis. According to Ingrid Seward\u2019s book *My Mother And I*, Philip found the parallels \u201cuncanny\u201d: both were stylish, dark-haired American divorcees who married into the royal family. Markle\u2019s first marriage to Trevor Engelson (2011-2014) mirrored Simpson\u2019s marital history that once scandalized the monarchy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While Queen Elizabeth II reportedly initially approved of Markle, she allegedly questioned her \u201ctoo white\u201d wedding dress given her previous marriage. The Sussexes\u2019 2020 royal exit drew inevitable comparisons to Edward VIII\u2019s abdication, with royal commentator Hugo Vickers observing Harry seemed \u201cthoroughly miserable\u201d in his post-royal life \u2013 echoing Edward\u2019s melancholy after leaving the throne. The nickname reveals lingering tensions about American divorc\u00e9es marrying into the centuries-old institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A new royal biography claims Prince Philip privately referred to Meghan Markle as the \u201cDuchess of Windsor\u201d \u2013 a loaded comparison to Wallis Simpson, the American divorcee whose marriage to Edward VIII caused the 1936 abdication crisis. According to Ingrid Seward\u2019s book *My Mother And I*, Philip found the parallels \u201cuncanny\u201d: both were stylish, dark-haired…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5788,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786\/revisions\/5788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}