The royals have welcomed Meghan, Duchess of Sussex with open arms – but their friends are another story! In a series of scathing attacks, Prince Charles’ pal Nicky Haslam, 78, has openly slammed Meghan’s family. ‘They’re frightfully common,’ he sneered.
An interior designer and socialite, Nicky has previously worked for Charles and once socialised with the late Princess Diana. But that friendship clearly doesn’t extend to Meghan, 36, who tied the knot with Prince Harry, 33, in May.
Meghan’s half-siblings weren’t invited to the ceremony, while her father Thomas Markle, 73, pulled out to undergo heart surgery just days after he was caught selling staged photographs. ‘It would have been awful if that huge lump had been there,’ sniped Nicky. ‘The royals probably don’t quite know how to deal with…