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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Amy Mackelden

Negative Stories About Princess Kate and Meghan Markle Reduce All Women to "Scheming Seductresses or Witches," According to One Royal Author

Princess Kate Middleton wears a green dress and has long wavy brown hair and Duchess Meghan Markle wears a white shirt and wears her hair in a ponytail.

Both Princess Kate and Meghan Markle have faced unduly negative press as members of the British Royal Family. In fact, racist tabloid coverage is one of the reasons the Duchess of Sussex left the U.K. and moved back to the U.S. with husband Prince Harry. And according to one royal author, all women lose when royal women are unfairly vilified by the media.

In an exclusive interview with Marie Claire, royal author Catherine Mayer—who recently released her book, Divide and Rule: Royal Women and Their Battles—discussed the persecution Duchess Meghan dealt with as a senior royal.

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