A ROYAL expert has claimed Meghan Markle made a sly dig at her sister-in-law Kate Middleton that ”clearly hit a nerve”.
Earlier this month, thelaunched her brand-new podcast,, two-and-a-half years since she last attempted to set the podcast stage alight with herseries
This week, the mum-of-two, 43, sat down with pal Kadi Lee, co-founder of Highbrow Hippie, to discuss ”what it means to grow something from the ground up, how to lead with your values, and why staying connected to your community is the ultimate marker of success”.
But perhaps ”the only interesting thing” mentioned in the , The Sun's said, was the way -based duchess referred to Kadi.
In the episode, titled Building Your Brand Brick by Brick, Meghan said that when Kadi turns up at their , and call her .
Entrepreneur Kadi candidly shared on the podcast: “Maybe I'll try a stint in .
“I'm just a really naturally curious person, and I was not blessed with kids.
“I'm still holding out hope I might be a step mum or, you know, one day, but for right now, I'm just super aunt.”;
Meghan cut in: “I mean, our kids love Auntie Kadi.
“It’s our favourite when they run out to the car saying ‘Kadi’.”;
Kadi laughed: “I know I feel like I look for them first!”;
The two siblings also call Meghan’s close pal and tennis legend
The duchess previously posted footage of her daughter with “auntie” as they played a game of Candy Land.
The clip also featured Bill Withers' Lovely Day, with the caption: “When the aunties come to celebrate… and to play! Love you @serenawilliams.”
News.com.au Royal Reporter Bronte Coy told Matt Wilkinson: ”Yes, she did say that on there.
”It was, for context, off the back of Katie saying that she was sad not to have been blessed with children herself – so she thought that was obviously a personal spot for her, and she said ‘I'll just be the cool auntie'.”
But while it may seem like an innocent comment, Bronte explained how the remark was a sly dig at , the Princess of Wales, 43.
She said: ”[Meghan] calling her aunt Katie is obviously going to hit a nerve because the kids do have aunties and Aunt Catherine over in Britain that I don't think that they have any sort of relationship with.
”So it would clearly hit a nerve.
”It was an interesting comment, I would say and when I heard it, it was like ‘Oh, that's going to hit'.”
Hugo Vickers, who also appeared on this week's , agreed – and explained how Archie and Lilibet, five and three, will grow to ”resent” the strained relationship between the royal couples.
”They're suddenly going to realise that their first cousin is a .
”You know, they could have been enjoying life at and all sorts of things.
”I mean, children are not stupid, they're going to realise that at some point and will probably want to have some sort of connection.”
But while Meghan and seem to be drifting further and further away from , the experts believe that things may change in the future.
”Hopefully, that's something that does happen down the line,” Bronte said about the relationship doing a 180.
”This is a new generation we're talking about in terms of William and Catherine's kids and the Sussexes. Maybe they'll all forge that themselves.”
Family strains
During the podcast Meghan made no reference to the kids’ real auntie, Princess Kate.
The Princess of Wales, 43, first in May 2019 with .
However, it is not known if Kate has met Princess Lilibet, who was born in 2021 in California.
, Kate said: “I can't wait to meet her. We haven't met her yet. I hope that will be soon.”;
It is thought that Archie and Lilibet also have no relationship with women on Meghan’s side who could be aunts, including her half-sister .
