SOURCE: HollywoodGossip.com
The news was met with an outpouring of sympathy, and the essay drew widespread praise for its courage and candor. But while Meghan’s words seemed to have the whole world talking, her in-laws have remained conspicuously silent on the matter.
It’s unusual for the Queen or anyone in her inner circle to publicly comment about events that take place within the family.
But given the heart-rending nature of Meghan’s essay, many felt the Windsor’s might make an exception and issue some sort of statement. That has proven not to be the case, and now, one journalist who reached out to the palace for comment is harshly criticizing the Queen.
The closest we’ve come to any sort of public response from Buckingham Palace comes to us from an anonymous source credited as a “palace insider,” who remarked: “There is, of course, much understandable sadness in the family. The statement, that it was a deeply personal matter which the Palace would not comment on, was accompanied by comment from a source which said there was obviously understandable sadness in the family,”
Journalists who have made careers of covering the happenings within the Windsor clan have been much more sympathetic than Myers and have argued that silence from the Palace is to be expected.
“I think this is a huge, huge missed opportunity for the royal family,” Daily Mail editor Russell Myers said during a recent radio interview: “They should have made a public statement to say, this is a really brave and honest thing to do, because just on the very basis that it would have mended some of the cracks in the relationship that we’ve been talking about for months and months,” he added.
Myers seems to believe that the royals didn’t withhold comment out of concern for Meghan and Harry — after all, it was Meghan who chose to go public with the matter — but rather out of compliance with an ancient code of royal conduct that prioritizes privacy and decorum above all else.
“The palace just said to us, ‘This is a deeply personal matter for the couple,'” he concluded
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