Meghan Markle’s anecdote about how she was hurriedly taught how to curtsey for the Queen by Sarah Ferguson has been slammed by critics as a lie.
The former Suits actress has been ‘outed’ by royal critics, after a scene from the legal drama has emerged showing the Duchess of Sussex bobbing into a curtsey years before she met and wed Prince Harry.
However, the actress has claimed she was taught to curtsey in her Netflix series alongside husband Prince Harry, as they discussed the moment that Meghan met Harry’s grandmother the Queen.
In the docuseries, Meghan explained: “I mean. it’s surreal.
There wasn’t like some big moment of ‘Now you’re gonna meet my grandmother’. I didn’t know I was going to meet her until moments before. We were in the car and we were going to the Royal Lodge for lunch, and he [Harry] was like, ‘Oh, my grandmother is here, she’s gonna be there after church.’ I remember we were in the car, driving and he’s [Harry] like, ‘You know how to curtsy, right?’. And I just thought it was a joke.”
Prince Harry added: “How do you explain that to people? How do you explain that you bow to your grandmother? And that you would need to curtsy, especially to an American. That’s weird.” The couple then continue as they speak to the camera, and Meghan continued: “Now I’m starting to realise this is a big deal. I mean, Americans will understand this. We have Medieval Times dinner and tournament. It was like that. Like, I curtsied as though I was like… ‘Pleasure to meet you your Majesty.’ It was so intense. And then when she left, Eugenie and Jack and Fergie say ‘you did great!’. Thanks. I didn’t know what I was doing.”
Harry also claims that Meghan was ‘taught’ how to curtsey by his aunt Sarah, as he wrote in his 2023 memoir ‘Spare’ that when learning Meghan might meet his grandmother the Queen, he asked if she knew how to curtsey to which the Suits actress responded saying she ‘thought so’.
Turning to relatives, Harry asked his aunt Sarah Ferguson to help alongside cousin Eugenie and her husband Jack Brookbanks. He wrote:”Fergie came outside, somewhat aflutter, and said: Do you know how to curtsy? Meg shook her head. Fergie demonstrated once. Meg imitated her.”
Yet after claims in their Netflix series and in Harry’s autobiography that this was the moment Meghan learned how to curtsey, critics have slammed it as a lie as they point out a scene from Suits where Meghan is seen to be curtseying. After the clip was shared on social media, one fan branded her “a fraud”. Another savagely said: “Come on guys! She “forgot” she had curtsied in the show. Just like she “forgot” she dictated the book to Omid.”