19 Jul Meghan Markle Is Reportedly Already Frustrated By “Difficult” Palace Rules

When you meet your soulmate, suddenly everything about the world seems a little brighter. Even when you’re commuting on a dull, grey morning, you imagine yourself snuggling up to your lover later that evening and it doesn’t seem so bad. In the throws of passion, we will do almost anything to have things with bae work out – including that thing Meatloaf said he wouldn’t do.

After all, relationships are all about sacrifices, and once the honeymoon period is over, you have to accept that no relationship is ever going to be perfect. But, as I’m sure any happily loved up person will agree, those sacrifices are worth it when you fall asleep in your lover’s arms. Now, after the wedding of the year – and quite possibly the wedding of the decade – Meghan Markle (AKA the new Duchess of Sussex) is starting to realize just how many sacrifices she will have to make for Prince Harry.

After a successful acting career, the American divorcee turned her back on her old life to marry the United Kingdom’s most eligible bachelor, seemingly with the hope that she would be able to use her position in the British monarchy as a force for good. But she appeared to forget one tiny little detail: the entire family is stifled by centuries’ worth of tradition.

To see how outspoken Meghan was as an actress, check out the video below:

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Although Harry had definitely earned himself as a reputation as being the Royal Family’s resident bad boy (Who could forget that Nazi costume?!), even he has to abide by their rules, which, admittedly, have lapsed a little over the years.

Back when the Queen’s younger sister Princess Margret fell in love in the 1950s, she was forbidden from marrying the man of her choice, Group Captain Peter Townsend, because he was a divorcee. The Royal Family’s stringent rules even hindered the future king, Prince Charles, who was forced to marry Diana over Camilla because of her lineage and virginity.

So, in marrying Meghan, who is also proudly mixed race, Harry was undoubtedly choosing a very modern bride. That being said, the institution that he stands for is by no means modern and there is only so much rule breaking allowed.

Now, a few months on from beginning her duties as the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle has begun to realize exactly what she signed up for in marrying into the “Firm” – although she reportedly underwent months of princess training prior to going on official duties. In short, almost everything in her life is governed by rules other people made for her.

Unlike in days gone by, for example, the Suits star is now forbidden from signing autographs. This, however, is done for a good reason as the Royal Family does not want to risk their signatures being forged on official documents.

But frustratingly for Meghan, who was famed for her fashion choices, many of these rules extend to what she can and cannot wear as a member of the British Monarchy, and she is finding these rules particularly difficult to deal with.

It’s no wonder that she struggling with them, either. As an outspoken feminist, Meghan believes that women should be equal to men, but now she is living her life in a world where women must appear ladylike at all times.

A source close to the Duchess told People that she “has found certain rules in the royal household difficult to understand, like the fact that the Queen prefers women in dresses or skirts rather than trouser suits.”

Apparently, Meghan is “often asking Harry why things have to be done in a certain way.”

However, clearly not wanting to scare his new bride off so early into their marriage, Harry is allowing her to bend the rules when possible. At Meghan’s first official trooping of the color, for example, she was allowed to wear an unconventional (by royal standards) off the shoulder dress – something which made headlines because it showed off so much flesh.

But perhaps the biggest difficulty which Meghan has faced in adjusting to life as a royal is the neutrality which she has to keep on important subjects. The Royal Family has to remain impartial and keep their personal views to themselves because they are an unelected body, but that didn’t stop Meghan Markle from making more than a little faux pas on a recent trip to Ireland.

The Emerald Isle recently held a groundbreaking referendum on its abortion laws. Still a stringently Catholic country, the Irish people were asked whether or not the country’s blanket ban on abortion should be overturned – a ban which forced thousands of women to take dangerous illegal home abortion bills and travel overseas for the procedure.

Even though debate in the country was fierce, the Irish overwhelmingly voted in favor of legalizing abortion, giving their women full bodily autonomy for the first time in history. And when Meghan met Senator Catherine Noone, pictured below, she made a point of telling her that she was “pleased” with the result, breaking the royal’s political neutrality convention.

This caused a scandal when the Noone tweeted Meghan’s statement, writing, “The Duchess and I had a chat about the recent referendum result – she watched with interest and was pleased to see the result.”

People naturally had a lot to say about Meghan expressing her views on what remains a contentious issue, and as a result, Noone decided to delete her tweet and claim that Meghan had “expressed no political opinion.”

But this clarification was not wholly believed, and Noone decided to delete it too, telling the Irish Independent, “I deleted [the tweet] because it was unintentionally misleading – the Duchess was not in any way political.”

This hiccup by Royal standards would have most likely upset Meghan who is quoted on the Royal Family’s official website as saying, “I am proud to be a woman and a feminist” – the latter of which is not so easy with her new societal position.

Another area where Meghan has blatantly flown in the face of the Royal Family is her attitude towards hugging people. In fact, she was told off in May of this year for hugging the guards at Buckingham Palace. And while she is now following this rule, no doubt at the Queen’s request, she continues to break it when it comes to embracing members of the public.

A friend of the Duchesses’ quoted her as saying, “I’m American. I hug.”

While making a few mistakes is inevitable when you’re learning, it’s clear that Meghan is breaking the rules as much as she can in an attempt to further modernize the monarchy, but the extent to which she will be successful is yet to be seen.

“I think she finds it a little frustrating at times,” People‘s source concludes. “But this is her new life, and she has to deal with it.”

The last time that a member of the Britsh Royal Family married an American divorcee, things did not go well. Edward VIII’s decision to marry Wallis Simpson not only changed the course of history, putting Elizabeth II on the throne she was never expected to sit on, but it ultimately ended in divorce. We can hope that Harry and Meghan do not face a similar fate.

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