Royal family dissed Meghan Markle’s birthday to avoid appearing ‘fake’: report

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going to see the “Barbie” movie with a group of girlfriends, there seemed to be something missing from the day: a public birthday shoutout from her in-laws.However, one royal expert believes there’s a reason why the royal family stayed radio silent on Markle’s special day, and that’s because they may have run the risk of looking “fake.”“I just think that they probably felt it looked a bit fake, given the whole world knows they’re not really speaking much at the moment,” royal historian Tessa Dunlop recently told UK’s OK!

Magazine.“I think it would have looked a bit disingenuous, probably to slap photos up there with really no noticeable communication going on behind the scenes,” she continued.Dunlop also added that she thinks there’s been a “firmer line drawn in the sand” between the Sussexes and the royal family, especially off the heels of Prince Harry’s bombshell January tell-all memoir, “Spare,” and their December Netflix docu-series, “Harry & Meghan.”In both of the projects, the couple made many allegations about the royal family — including Prince Harry’s claim in “Spare” that his brother, Prince William, 41, physically “attacked” him during a spat over Markle before they stepped down from their roles as senior royals in 2020.

Markle also told her alleged side of the story to Oprah in a sit-down interview, which aired in March 2021. Last year, when The Duchess turned 41, Kensington Palace did wish her a happy birthday on their official Twitter account, sharing a photo of the royal.But Dunlop speculates that was because there was more of a relationship between the family members at that time, as they had even traveled to England to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee that year. “It was a reminder that actually,.