Source Close to Meghan Markle Responds to Backlash Over ‘Insensitive’ Paris Tunnel Video
Meghan Markle is facing a fresh wave of criticism following a video she posted during Paris Fashion Week.
The former Suits star shared a clip on her Instagram Stories with her feet up in a chauffeur-driven vehicle traveling along the banks of the Seine towards the Pont d’Alma tunnel, the site of the 1997 crash that killed Princess Diana.
Social media exploded with many wondering why Meghan would post something showing anything even remotely close to that site.
Royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams told the Daily Mail: “I don’t understand what on earth she was thinking — well, she can’t have been thinking. No adviser would ever advise doing something so strange. I’m sure she didn’t mean to cause offense; she can’t have been thinking, but it’s insensitive beyond belief.”
Well now, a source close to the Duchess of Sussex is responding to the criticism, calling it “a complete stretch to draw the most tenuous, tenuous link between an Instagram post and the death of Harry’s mother.”
The insider continued, telling Newsweek: “The bridge is lit up, she’s driving through Paris, she’s taken a picture of the nighttime Parisian skyline and the Mail has chosen to try to turn this into some kind of Machiavellian message. That’s the insensitive part in all of this.”
When asked if the scrutiny Meghan has received over the video was fair, royal commentator and To Di For Daily host Kinsey Scholfield opined that it was for one reason, insisting, “If she didn’t try to paint herself as [Princess] Diana 2.0, I would say ‘This is a stretch.’ But she’s constantly telling us that she’s the new Diana.”
