Meghan Markle is ‘strategic’ with her friendships and ‘forgets’ about her pals ‘when she’s finished with them’, royal expert tells PALACE CONFIDENTIAL

Meghan Markle is ‘strategic’ when it comes to picking her friendships, royal expert Charlotte Griffiths has told on Palace Confidential. 

Speaking on the Mail+’s weekly talk show, the Editor at Large for the Mail on Sunday said the Montecito-based Duchess of Sussex, 42, doesn’t have many friends.

As Meghan sends the first batch of her American Riviera Orchard strawberry jam to friends in a total of 50 jars, she joked that Meghan might not have enough friends to distribute so many products to.

Griffiths added that Meghan is famous for ‘unfriending her friends’ – pointing out that the word ‘Markled’ has been coined as slang in recent years for distancing oneself from a friendship – and it even appears on the Urban Dictionary. 

According to the slang website, to be ‘Markled’ means: ‘To abandon someone or something after they’ve contributed to your life in a meaningful way.

Griffiths said on the show that the phrase exists because the mother-of-two has ‘unfriended so many people she knows.’

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Speaking on the Mail+’s weekly talk show, Charlotte Griffiths said the Duchess of Sussex doesn’t have many friends

‘[She’s unfriended] family members, suits co-stars, her best friend Jessica Mulroney whose children were page boys at the royal wedding.’

Meghan’s relationship with Jessica Mulroney cooled in 2020 after the fashion designer, who is based in Toronto, was caught up in a ‘white privilege’ row in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement. 

After influencer Sasha Exeter called out Mulroney for displaying ‘white privilege’, Meghan became distant from her once-BFF. 

An insider told Page Six that the duo’s relationship was already on the rocks because Meghan felt that Jessica was trying to ‘make a career out of the friendship.’

Griffiths added: ‘For somebody who is actually famous for unfriending her friends or casting aside her friends, it’s amazing that she cited the word friendship in the blurb for this documentary that’s sort of been leaked out.

‘I think she’s a bit strategic with her friends and once she’s finished with them, she casts them aside and forgets all about them, deletes their number and blocks their number in some cases.’

Harry and Meghan are set to launch two new Netflix shows on cooking, gardening and polo as part of their ongoing $100 million deal with the streaming site.

Jessica Mulroney and actress Meghan Markle attend the World Vision event held at Lumas Gallery on March 22, 2016 in Toronto. It’s believed the pair fell out after Jessica became embroiled in ‘white privilege’ race row with blogger Sasha Exeter

The pair have two non-fiction projects in the works, which come off the back of the launch of her new lifestyle brand, American Riviera Orchard.

The Duchess will focus on lifestyle-centric topics like gardening and cooking in a move that will likely allow her to cross-promote her brand and the first series will see her ‘celebrate the joys of cooking, gardening, entertaining, and friendship’.

Meghan sent 50 jars of her new jam out to her pals including Delfina Blaquier and fashion designer Tracy Robbins, who shared shots on Instagram.

But Griffiths is not convinced that Meghan has an extensive list of friends. She said: ‘Back to the jam thing, the other big joke that’s been running all week is how does she know 50 people to send jam to?

‘This is a woman that doesn’t have 50 friends as far as we can tell. It’s a bit like the Royal Wedding Guest List. 

Griffiths said that Meghan invited people to her wedding that she didn’t know well, such as Oprah, who she is believed to have met only once in person before the big day. Above: Oprah at Meghan and Harry’s wedding in 2018

Griffiths added that Meghan is famous for ‘unfriending her friends’ on the talk show, Palace Confidential, pointing out that there is a verb in Urban Dictionary for the phenomenon. Above (L-R) Charlotte Griffiths, Richard Eden, Rebecca English and Jo Elvin  

‘She invited people to that Royal Wedding of hers that she barely knew such as Oprah, who was actually just after an interview with her, but she barely knew Oprah at that point.’

The chat show host had been invited to the ceremony at St George’s Chapel, inside Windsor Castle, despite only having apparently met Meghan face-to-face once and it’s not thought she had ever met Harry in person before the special day.

All 800 guests were invited to enjoy a ‘wedding breakfast’ in the Great Hall of Windsor Castle after the ceremony.

However, only 200 guests were invited to a sit-down dinner in the grounds of Frogmore House that evening, paid for by her father-in-law, King Charles. 

The couple reportedly split the guest list so they could each invite 100 people and Duchess is understood to have used her quota to include Oprah in the evening’s invitation.