During a 2021 interview, Duchess Meghan publicly — and famously — accused the queen and the royal family of a palace cover-up when Meghan started to have suicidal thoughts at the palace. “I just didn’t want to be alive anymore. And that was a very clear and real and frightening … [a] constant thought,” Meghan recalled shortly after she and Prince Harry left the royal family and moved to America. “I went to the institution and I said I needed to go somewhere to get help. I said, ‘I’ve never felt this way before and I need to go somewhere.’ And I was told that I couldn’t, that it wouldn’t be good for the institution.”
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A response like that doesn’t just come from a palace courtier, says an insider, “it comes right from the top. Image is everything to the Firm, and just like with Princess Diana — who also suffered greatly because of the royal family — Meghan’s feelings also had to be swept under the rug.”
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“I went to one of the most senior people to get help,” Meghan continued. “I share this because there are so many people who are afraid to voice that they need help. And I know personally how hard it is not just to voice it, but when you voice it to be told no. I remember this conversation like it was yesterday. They said, ‘My heart goes out to you because I see how bad it is. But there’s nothing we can do to protect you because you’re not a paid employee of the institution.’ Nothing was ever done.”
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