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In his younger years, Prince Harry was notoriously fond of a party.

Images of him living it up in Miami and Las Vegas have followed him for years. What happens in Vegas tends not to stay in Vegas when you’re a royal with an army of paparazzi ready to snap your every move.

Harry’s hard-partying ways started to change before he met Meghan Markle, and continued when they began to date, but some of his friends perhaps didn’t get the memo.

A new book, Revenge: Meghan, Harry And The War Between The Windsors, details how Meghan didn’t take too kindly to their antics during a shooting party at Sandringham. The party took place shortly after Harry and Meghan went public with their relationship in November 2016.

Harry and his 16 pals were keen for some beers and bants (banter, not banting, before Tim Noakes weighs in) but Meghan shut them down, reports The Telegraph:

“He had not anticipated Meghan’s reaction,” the book says. “Their jokes, involving sexism, feminism and transgender people, ricocheted around the living rooms and dining rooms.

“Without hesitation, Meghan challenged every guest whose conversation contravened her values.”

[Author Tom] Bower claims: “Again and again she reprimanded them about the slightest inappropriate nuance.

“Driving home after Sunday lunch, the texts pinged between the cars: “OMG what about HER?” said one; “Harry must be f—ing nuts.”

Sheesh, hey – what’s the world coming to when you can’t get together with mates and be sexist and ridicule transgender people?

Bloody wokies sticking up for the marginalised when the boys just want to have a good time.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Meghan wasn’t keen on hanging with Harry’s friends at the wedding of one of his best mates, Tom “Skippy” Inskip”, in Jamaica the following year.

The picture above shows the pair with a friend at the wedding:

Some friends said Meghan quibbled about the food and was “princessy”,  refusing to engage with Harry’s friends, it is alleged.

“She wasn’t interested in us,” one is quoted as saying.

She’s been nicknamed the ‘Princess of Montecito’ by her neighbours in the US for daring to book conference rooms for meetings and requesting tables with privacy when she dines out.

The book also revealed the Royal Family’s struggles with Meghan’s father, Thomas Markle, and his insistence on carrying out interviews in the build-up to her wedding.

Prince Charles was said to have “berated” Harry, asking him: “Can’t she just go and see him and make this stop?”

Here’s The Daily Beast:

…Bower also writes that shortly after Harry and Meghan’s 2018 wedding, Charles and Queen Elizabeth “urged” Meghan to fly to America for a reconciliation. This request was rejected by Meghan, fearing “a frenzy of media attention and intrusion that could bring more embarrassment to the royal family.”

…Bower also reports that Camilla “found it hard to believe that Meghan would sacrifice her independence to serve silently as a team player” within the royal family.

That’s Camilla Parker Bowles, who had an affair with Prince Charles while he was married to Diana and she was married to Andrew Parker Bowles, talking about someone not being a team player.

By the way, Andrew previously dated Prince Charles’s sister, Princess Anne.

As the negative press coverage of Harry and Meghan continued, the latter was said to grow resentful:

Bower writes: “Meghan was angry that Palace officials refused to protect her image. She refused to accept that staff were not employed to promote her as an individual, but instead placed her within the grid of the entire Royal Family.

In particular, Meghan fumed about the refusal officially to criticize Thomas Markle [with Meghan above]. From her perspective, Meghan was isolated, vulnerable and stifled by conventions.”

Having reached the point where they could no longer reside in the UK, the couple packed their bags and headed for California.

Neither has publicly commented on the claims made in the book.

[sources:telegraph&dbeast]