How Meghan Markle ‘really felt’ about marrying into royal family, revealed by her ex-staffer
Meghan Markle‘s ex-bodyguard has said he feels ‘sorry’ for the former actress as marrying into the royal family was ‘stressful’ for her because she struggled to go from a B-list celebrity to the ‘most famous family in the world’.
Steve Davies was first introduced to Meghan in 2018, when he was hired by Suits broadcaster NBC to protect Meghan while she was in Toronto, Canada.
‘It was stressful for her – all the publicity,’ he told InTouch.
After their first meeting, Davies ‘felt sorry [for her] because she’d gone from being a celebrity to being a member of the biggest family in the world,’ he told the US outlet.
‘We had people following us around everywhere we went. We had problems with drones, vehicles chasing us. It was a nightmare.’
A former British special forces soldier, Davies said he feared that ‘what happened to Princess Diana might have happened to her’ while comparing her life in England after her 2018 wedding to being in a ‘goldfish bowl’.
Davies also defended the Duchess of Sussex against claims she’s ‘not a very good person to work with’, adding: ‘There’s one huge lesson I learnt from her: It’s give respect to get respect.’
His interview comes days after a report examined why a slew of Harry and Meghan’s employees stateside have jumped ship in recent years.
‘Everyone’s terrified of Meghan,’ a source close to the couple told The Hollywood Reporter, adding ‘she’s absolutely relentless’.
Contrary to accusations that Meghan ‘belittles’ her staff, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Davies said the duchess was ‘warm and considerate all the time’.
‘She’s great to her fans, and she would go out of her way to help people,’ he continued. ‘That’s what hurts me – that people believe [otherwise].’
Since the duke and duchess relocated to California in 2020, 18 of their top aides and staffers – including their chief of staff Josh Kettler and Meghan’s private secretary Samantha Cohen – have quit working for them.
