Contrary to harsh reviews from former employees, the former bodyguard defended Meghan Markle for her attitude towards her subordinates. This person also sympathized with the pressure that the beauty born in 1981 had to bear when becoming a royal bride.
In recent months, Meghan Markle has faced numerous accusations from a series of former employees. Many employees who worked for the former actress in the years since she started dating Prince Harry described her as a “boss from hell”, “devil”, “narcissist” or “dictator in high heels”. They accused the Duchess of belittling her staff, bullying them relentlessly, constantly yelling and screaming when giving orders and using psychological manipulation tactics.
“The Duchess always seems to have her eye on someone. “We have had report after report from people who have witnessed unacceptable behavior,” former press secretary Jason Knauf wrote in an email in 2018.
While there is no hard evidence to support the allegations, the fact that at least 18 staff members have quit since Meghan and Harry moved to California in 2020 seems to reinforce the public’s belief in a bad royal bride.
However, not all former staff have had bad experiences with Meghan. In an exclusive interview with In Touch in October, former bodyguard Steve Davies, who worked for the British special forces and now works with the Focus One Group security service in Canada, spoke positively about Meghan, even sympathizing with her plight.
“She has a bad reputation as someone who is not good to work with, that she is the bad person in the royal family. “I saw her, from working in the studio to working with charities to dog walkers and cleaners. There was one big lesson I learned from her: Give respect to get respect,” Davies said.
When they first met in 2018, Meghan’s life changed essentially overnight. The former bodyguard said he felt sorry for Meghan, given the stress she faced as she transitioned from a B-list actress to the most famous family in the world.
According to Davies, the intense media attention left Meghan almost paranoid. The paparazzi followed her everywhere she went, with drones and the chases not being exaggerated.
“It was a nightmare. Everything she took for granted in her old life was gone. After a few weeks of working with her, I said, ‘What do you really want to do?’ She said, ‘I really want to go grocery shopping.’ So I pushed the cart around the grocery store and she put the groceries in it. She really enjoyed it,” the man said of his time in Toronto, Canada.
Meghan’s freedom was further restricted when she arrived in the UK. Davies described the Suits star’s life as being in a “goldfish bowl”. He confirmed Meghan’s account in a bombshell interview on CBS in 2021 that she was trapped in the palace, ordered by the royal family not to leave the house for months.
Davies said that despite Meghan’s desire, it was not safe for her to go out at that time. Photographers were everywhere, not afraid to run traffic lights to try to follow Meghan’s car. The former bodyguard feared that what happened to Princess Diana in Paris could happen to Meghan.
Davies said that her love for Harry could not prevent Meghan from falling into a state of depression. She was afraid to open the newspaper and see people talking about her, not to mention Buckingham Palace controlling every aspect of Meghan’s life, while she had always been in control of her own life.
The former bodyguard believes that this may be why Meghan and the palace staff had difficulty interacting with each other. According to Davies, working with Meghan in Toronto was different from what former staff members have said.
“No one could say a bad word about her. Even when she was under pressure, she was always warm and caring. She was friendly and had a big heart. She was great with her fans and she would go out of her way to help people. It hurt me that people believed the allegations in the media,” Davies emphasized.
With Meghan being attacked more and more seriously, Davies felt that there was a