Prince Philip’s brutal nickname for Meghan Markle that he ‘never said to her face’ revealed
The late Prince Philip had a rather harsh nickname for Meghan Markle, a royal expert has claimed.
Philip, who died in 2021, was “wary” of the former Suits actress and drew parallels between her and Wallis Simpson, the wife of Prince Edward. Both women were American divorcees when they married into the Royal Family, and while these similarities have been noted before, it’s said that Philip explicitly highlighted this comparison with a nickname for Meghan, though he never used it directly with her.
Royal biographer Ingrid Seward claims that Philip saw “similarities” between Meghan and Wallis Simpson, the late Duchess of Windsor, and gave her a nickname that linked the two women. She explained: “I think Prince Philip was very canny about people and he didn’t always see the bad in them, he tried to see the good in them.
“I think he just couldn’t get away from the fact [of the] similarities between Meghan and Harry and Edward and Mrs Simpson. There are so many similarities which is why he used to call her The Duchess of Windsor, I mean not to her face.”
Speaking to GB News, Seward added: “We used to call her dow – DoW [the abbreviation for Duchess of Windsor].” In her revealing book, My Mother and I, Seward said: “One of the few wary of succumbing to [Meghan’s] charm offensive… was Prince Philip. From the moment he detected her apparent similarity to Wallis, he referred to her as DoW.”
