Markle compared to King’s Speech Villainess

American actor Meghan Markle, 37, currently engaged to Harry, Prince of Wales. | Creative Commons License.

British press continued to draw unfavorable comparisons between Markle and another divorced American celebrity who became engaged to British Royalty — Wallis Simpson of Baltimore, whose intended marriage to King Edward VIII caused him to abdicate the throne weeks prior to the start of WWII.

In the Simpson episode, King Edward’s desire to marry a divorced American woman created a Constitutional crisis that forced the King to choose between love and country. He chose love and moved to Baltimore. After abdicating, the former King was styled the Duke of Windsor, and Simpson was known as the Duchess of Windsor, but without they usual style “Her Royal Highness”. The events of the Wallis Simpson episode are depicted in the 2010 Oscar-winning film The King’s Speech.

Between the racist, sexist and defamatory attacks from the disreputable media and the unfair comparisons to a woman from another era, the spate of negative coverage reached a crescendo in 2016, eventually yielding an unprecedented public rebuttal and rebuke of the British press from both Prince Harry himself and the official Royal establishment.

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