Meghan Markles messiah complex, frequent hugs sparked clash within palace before royal exit: ex-staffers

Meghan Markle was accused of having a “messiah complex” by former palace aides before her shocking royal exit with husband Prince Harry, according to a prominent royal author.Author Tom Quinn, who penned “Yes, Ma’am: The Secret Life of Royal Servants,” spoke to hundreds of former and current palace staffers who divulged on what went on behind the scenes before the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s departure from royal life in 2020.“Several of the aides that I spoke to, as well as the more junior staff, said that Meghan had what they called a ‘messiah complex,’” Quinn told Fox News. The messiah complex — also known as the savior complex — is when a person believes it’s their special duty to save or help others, even when it’s not needed.“I think what they meant was that, as a working royal, she could save all the people whose lives were difficult.She could help with all sorts of problems, including poverty,” Quinn said.“She had this sense that came from a very good motivation that she could change the world for the better.

But the aides saw her ideas of doing good as completely out of proportion to what she actually could do,” Quinn added.The royal author said palace staffers felt that the “Suits” alum, 43, “had these grand ideas, but there was no way a single person could do what she wanted to do.”“And I think there was also a suspicion that Meghan was trying to be more like William and Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, that she was trying to do the same thing.And I think there was irritation that her sense of importance would reflect badly on the royal family,” he added.One of Markle’s personal former staffers had claimed that she was “focused on how she could become the best-known and most-loved member of the royal family.”“She once said, ‘What Diana started I want to finish,’ and we took that to mean she wanted to become a sort of globetrotting champion of the poor and the marginalized,” the former aide ...