Name and shame.
Prince Philip had a seemingly spiteful nickname for Meghan Markle, according to a bombshell excerpt from a forthcoming book by royal biographer, Ingrid Seward.
Philip, who died in 2021 at age 99 , allegedly called Markle the “Duchess of Windsor” — a stinging reference to the title held by the much-maligned American socialite Wallis Simpson.
Simpson, a US divorcée, married Edward VIII in 1937 after he abdicated the British throne in a cloud of controversy.
Philip thought it “uncanny” how much Markle reminded him of Simpson, Seward claims in her new tome, “My Mother And I.”
“He wasn’t simply referring to the fact that both were pencil-slim, dark-haired and glamorous American divorcées,” she writes.
Like Simpson, Markle was also a divorced woman before she met Prince Harry in 2016.
The former actress was married to film producer Trevor Engelson from 2011 until their split in 2014.
According to Seward’s book, Queen Elizabeth was initially far nicer about Markle.
She allegedly “approved” of the actress after being introduced to her by Harry in 2017.
