Royal biographer says that the public has ‘warmed to Camilla’

A royal biographer has said that Meghan Markle could learn from how the Duchess of Cornwall has navigated life in the public eye, despite the abuse she received at the start of her relationship with Prince Charles.

Angela Levin, a royal commentator and author of several biographies of senior members of the family, spoke to GB News today after the Her Majesty gave her blessing for Camilla to become Queen Consort when Prince Charles ascends the throne.

Comparaing the two women, she described Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex as a ‘difficult woman’ who is ‘not somebody who wants to work as a team’. 

In an interview with Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster, she compared the Duchess of Cornwall to Prince Philip in his commitment to the Queen and her duties.

‘When she’s with Prince Charles, she takes a backwards step and she’s there to support him rather like Prince Philip was,’ Angela said.

‘She doesn’t try to interfere, she doesn’t try to outsmart him, or rush ahead and shake hands with whoever is there.

‘But she has opened up during the pandemic with loads and loads of Zoom calls, talked to people, and she’s got this great sense of humour and they have warmed to her.

‘The public has seen her in a way that they never have before. She works incredibly hard and I think the Queen feels quite rightly that she justifies it.

‘She’s also never complained about anything, from the time she was most disliked, before she married Prince Charles, people were attacking her in every possible way.

‘She never complained and just got on with her life quietly, she stayed in her home for months on end because she couldn’t face the nastiness. But she never blamed anybody and never tried to win people round, she just waited.

‘I believe she felt that if you give people time, “They will see what I’m like and then they can make up their minds”.’

Royal biographer Levin told GB News that she thinks Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex (pictured during the 2021 Global Citizen Live festival in New York) is a ‘very different personality’ who ‘takes on everything she possibly can because she needs to be out there in the front’

Presenter Eamonn responded to say that it was a gradual build-up of her reputation, and after experiencing the abuse for circumstances around the start of Camilla’s relationship with Prince Charles, she has ‘come out of the other side’.

Asking Angela if she thinks there is a lesson in Camilla’s story for the Duchess of Sussex, the royal biographer describes Meghan as a ‘very different personality.’

She continued: ‘Camilla comes from a solid background, she had parents who loved each other and brought her up in a very easy way.

Angela Levin, pictured, is a royal commentator and biographer who spoke to GB News earlier to discuss Camilla’s future role as Queen Consort

‘I think that the Duchess of Sussex needs to prove herself non-stop. 

‘She takes on everything she possibly can because she needs to be out there in the front.

‘She’s not somebody who wants to work as a team, where Camilla doesn’t want to put herself out in the front.

‘She [Meghan] has to win, and we’ve seen that with all these legal charges, very very difficult woman I think.’  

Her comments come as the Queen celebrates her Platinum Jubilee, after 70 years as the monarch.

Ahead of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee announcement, she said it was her ‘sincere wish’ that Camilla be known as Queen Consort when Prince Charles takes the throne.

In a message, the Queen said: ‘It is my sincere wish that, when that time comes, Camilla will be known as Queen Consort.’ 

The ‘Queen Consort’ refers to the spouse of a ruling king. A spokesman for Clarence House said both the Charles and Camilla were ‘touched and honoured’.