Meghan Markle: What she can not do when she stays with the queen

By marrying Prince Harry on May 19 at Windsor Castle, ex-actress Meghan Markle has forever changed her life. Now known as the Duchess of Susbad, the 36-year-old bride gradually had to get used to living with permanent security around her, admirers at every street corner and ubiquitous photographers. However, one of the most restrictive aspects of his new life is the famous protocol surrounding the royal family. Meghan Markle has to bend there, whether she likes it or not.

The protocol, Harry and William grew up with. Among other things, he dictates the conduct of the guests of the royal family and has been punctuating the lives of the two princes since their earliest childhood. Now married to Harry, Meghan Markle must learn to do with these ancestral rules, especially when she is in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II. One of the Queen's close advisers revealed to the British newspaper The Sun that the royal protocol went so far as to codify the sleep of the people surrounding the monarch. According to Sir William Heseltine, the night came, no one is allowed to go to bed until the queen has retired to her room. The private secretary ensures that it would be very bad to give way to fatigue before the grandmother of Princes Harry and William.

Whether she is tired or not, Meghan Markle knows that when she lodges in the queen, it is not she who decides when to go to bed. If this obligation does not seem to interfere with the bride at the moment, this has not always been the case for everyone in the past. According to Sun Princess Diana would have particularly suffered from this rule. " For Diana, the long official royal evenings were a Calvary ," reveals Sir William Heseltine. By force, the wife of Prince Charles had thus made the habit to apologize during the evening and go to bed. One more mark of the semblance of independence that had managed to forge the young woman within the British royal family.

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