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Princess Diana’s Butler Said Meghan’s £330k Baby Shower Made Prince William Angry


Meghan Markle is seven months pregnant and she is flaunting her baby bump on every occasion.

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Whenever we spot her, she looks perfect in every attire.

Princess Diana’s former butler has said Meghan Markle’s lavish spending while in New York this week will leave Prince William ‘angered’.

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Paul Burrell says he thinks both Prince William and Kate Middleton will be ‘bewildered’ by what seems to him as an ‘over-indulgence’ by the Duchess of Sussex.

He says her baby shower looked like a celebrity event, rather than an occasion for a member of the royal family, and he feels the lines are getting blurred between the two.

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The Duchess of Sussex has spent time over the last week in the Big Apple with her close friends, including Serena Williams and Amal Clooney.

According to the Daily Mail, the full trip could have cost more than £380,000 ($500,000).

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Paul Burrell, writing in The Sun, said: “I think Prince William will be angered by all of Meghan’s lavish extravagance this week and the fact her baby shower looked so ‘celebrity’ rather than ‘royal’.”

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He said the baby shower was organized to be in the spotlight.

Mr. Burrell continued: “You will not see antics like this from the Cambridge family, there is no way.”

The 60-year-old later added: “Prince William tries to keep his family out of the spotlight, so the fact Meghan’s baby shower was so flaunted will be frustrating for him, and it is causing a rift in the family.”

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He compared Meghan to the Cambridge, saying the latter is more private.

Princess Diana’s former butler pointed out that we only see Kate every so often in the spotlight, not on a daily basis.

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And he contrasted Meghan’s week in New York with Kate and William’s half term, who are believed to be on a family skiing trip with their children.

Mr. Burrell suggested the thousands of Meghan spent could have been better spent on other causes.

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Meghan traveled to and from New York in a private jet, which may have cost in the region of $250,000, which is about £200,000.

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The Mail reports that her penthouse suite at the Mark Hotel would have cost £114,000 ($150,000) for the five nights, plus claim the group splashed out for another one-bedroom suite at $9,982.05 (£7,600).

Writing in the Sun, Burrell warned Meghan would have to ‘learn respect for William and Kate’ when they become the future King and Queen.  

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Away she goes: Markle was seen leaving The Mark on Wednesday night an hour after her five-day baby shower holiday

He added: ‘The two different families, the Sussex, and the Cambridge, are drifting further and further apart, and that may be a good thing because Kate and William have to remain spotless.

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‘They have never put a foot wrong. Kate is an exemplary example of a queen in waiting and that’s what she has to be in our eyes.’

Burrell also warned that Meghan could fall into the same trap with the media that the Princess of Wales fell into if she doesn’t change her ways.

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He also claimed Prince Harry was ‘more complicated’, which may stem from him being too young to understand the passing of his mother.

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Burrell said: ‘Harry is just more complicated. And that could be because Harry didn’t understand the passing of his mum at the time because he was too young, and it could all have stemmed from them.

‘Diana too let the press into aspects of her life, and it didn’t end well.’

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