The Duchess of Sussex’s allies have claimed that palace officials deliberately used her as a “scapegoat” to deflect criticism away from other senior royals.
False stories and negative briefings against her and Prince Harry were given as part of a “war against Meghan”, she and her associates alleged in the latest attacks to emerge from the couple’s Netflix series.
Their lawyer Jenny Afia said she had seen evidence of “negative briefing from the palace against Harry and Meghan to suit other people’s agendas”.
And the duchess’s friend Lucy Fraser, who attended the couple’s wedding, said the palace had used the duchess as a scapegoat, adding: “They would feed stories on her – whether they were true or not – to avoid other less favourable stories being printed”.
But the Sussexes have failed to provide any evidence for these extraordinary claims by either Ms Afia or Ms Fraser.
The allegations were included in a new teaser for the Netflix series, ahead of the final three episodes released today.
They appear certain to contain further incendiary claims as the duke and duchess continue to share their “truth bomb” version of events.
In the latest trailer, Ms Afia said: “There was a real kind of war against Meghan, and I’ve certainly seen evidence that there was negative briefing from the palace against Harry and Meghan to suit other people’s agendas”.
It was not clear whether any of the “evidence” described by Ms Afia would be included in the latest episodes.
The duchess recounted seeing stories about her appear if there had been criticism of other senior royals.
She said: “You would just see it play out. A story about someone in the family would just pop up for a minute, and they’d go, ‘We gotta make that go away’. But there’s real estate on a website homepage, there’s real estate there on a newspaper front cover, and something has to be filled in there about someone royal.”
Royal sources condemned the claims of leaking false stories and negative briefings as “fanciful”.
One well placed source said: “The latest claims are absurd and show a level of paranoia that simply wasn’t – or isn’t – borne out by reality. The Sussexes’ team did nothing but fire-fight to protect them for three years, both in the run-up to and after their wedding.
“The suggestion that negative stories were deliberately leaked against Meghan as some sort of ‘war’ against her or to prevent stories about other members of the royal family being printed, is not just fanciful but untrue.”
Another pointed out that last year Meghan was herself forced to apologise to the High Court for failing to remember authorising a senior aide to brief the authors of the flattering Sussex biography Finding Freedom.
The couple have made a series of accusations about their treatment by the palace and the media, with Meghan claiming she was “fed to the wolves”.
Ms Afia said the “final straw in a campaign of negative, nasty coverage about her” had been a series of articles about the breakdown of Meghan’s relationship with her father, Thomas.
In a previous trailer for the tell-all documentary, Harry said palace aides were “happy to lie” to protect his older brother William, but would not tell the truth to protect him and his wife.
The six-part series, Harry & Meghan, forms part of the couple’s multimillion pound deal with Netflix, which they signed after quitting as working royals.
It has been a global hit, but has seen the Sussexes facing calls for them to give up their titles.
Critics accused the couple of using the series to settle old scores and launch a disinformation campaign against the royal family and the media.
Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace declined to comment.
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