It Seems That Meghan Markle Has Found A Great Role Model For Her Etiquette
The Princess to be is following Lady Diana’s footsteps, according to Prince Harry’s former butler. Meghan Markle is creating a unique spot for herself within the royal family.
With only two months remaining until she bids farewell to her old civilian life, and in with the new life as a royal, you can be sure that Meghan is in full prep mode. Today marked her first official appearance alongside Queen Elizabeth II. And it is quite a change for someone that just two years ago didn’t even know her future husband.
Grant Harold, “The Royal Butler” who is known as Britains etiquette expert and former royal butler to Prince Charles, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall as well as Prince William and Prince Harry, revealed to E! News exclusively about Meghan’s “modern approach” to royalty, what she can still learn from etiquette protocol. He also stated that her and the late Princess Diana bare tons of similarities.
Harold, who was employed by the royal family for seven years up until 2011, says that he was reminded of Princess Diana when Markle stopped to embrace a young schoolgirl during a recent engagement with Harry.
He describes Meghan’sĀ gesture as “really, really sweet,” but adds it’s not “normally” something the Queen would do. “It’s something younger people do,” Harrold explains, later continuing, “She’s got her own way of doing things… You look at the energy of Princess Diana and she was very much somebody that would hug people. She was famous for it, wasn’t she?”
At the peak of Princess Diana’s global reach, Harrold says, “None of the rest of the royal family hugged. It just wasn’t the done thing. Now the younger royals, Princes William and Harry, you see them hugging… So it’s their way of doing it. They are very much copying what their mother did, which is fantastic.”
Hugging commoners aside, Harold believes that for her life as a royal Meghan will have to give up two very important things about the celebrity lifestyle-autographs and selfies. He predicts the Princess will “definitely [be] discouraged” from signing photos of herself for fans and notes that posing for photographs is “obviously a big thing” that royals stray away from.
He explains, “She has to be careful what she says, how she says it, and how it’s taken because after the 19th of May, it will be very much the reflection of the royal family. It’s everyday thingsāfrom the way she walks, the way she speaks, the things she does, how she eats, how she holds her cup, how she dressesāeverything will be looked at the right way or the wrong way… There will be a lot for her to adapt to.”
The Princess, unlike Kate Middleton, who was born in England, she was born and raised in the U.S. which puts her in a kind of a disadvantage.
“It’s a different way of life,” he remarks, “a different culture, completely different upbringing. So it’s probably more difficult that she’s got to learn not just about how to be a royal, but also learn the British way of life.” But “what’s great” for the formerĀ SuitsĀ star, Harrold adds, is thatĀ “she’s got a wonderful sister-in-law who she can speak to, follow her lead and watch how she does it.”
In addition to this, Harold stated that she is learning etiquette and protocol “from within” and the royal family has made it “very easy for her to just ask the question as she goes along.”
After marrying Prince Harry, he tells E! News Meghan Markle will have the opportunity to “create the rules” regarding etiquette. “They do things how they want to adopt them,” Harrold explains. “If it’s something she does and if the rest of the family lets her do it, it becomes the done thing and that’s it.”
Talking about Prince Harry and Meghan’s relationship, Harold says it makes “complete sense” that the pair found each other. Describing Meghan as “very caring” with a “lovely personality” and passion for charity, he predicts Prince Harry “recognized” many of his own attributes within her.
“Not to mention she’s a very pretty girl, and again when two people meet and fall in love who’s to say? it’s very much a personal thing. As far as the actual personalities go, I think it was a match made in heaven,” Harrold shares.
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