A new book has revealed that Meghan Markle was mocked by palace insiders during her time as a member of the British royal family, as she was even given some unflattering nicknames by them.

Palace insiders opened up to Tom Quinn about what life with the royal family is like behind the scenes for his book “Kensington Palace: An Intimate Memoir from Queen Mary to Meghan Markle,” which is due to come out later this month.

“You couldn’t hide anything from anyone,” one palace staffer said to him.

Staffers said that Meghan was so full of herself when she married Prince Harry that she quickly earned herself the nicknames “Me-Gain,” “the Duchess of Difficult,” “Di 2” and “Di Lite,” according to Page Six. The couple has since stepped down as senior members of the British royal family and moved to Meghan’s hometown of Los Angeles California, a decision that many say that she took the reins on.

“Whose decision was it, I wonder, to build a new life in North America? I can’t help thinking that Meghan, as we must now call her, played a leading role here,” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s father Stanley said this week.

The book also revealed surprising personal details about Harry’s mother Princess Diana, who staffers had to convince to stop sunbathing nude on her rooftop garden, as it was not as private as she believed it to be. Diana thought the rooftop was safe from helicopters, but staffers informed her that the aircrafts had high-resolution binoculars.

Two construction workers even caught Diana one day when a barrier that would normally obscure the view was down. Luckily, the two men immediately turned their backs when they saw her.

“They may have just been builders, but they were gentlemen all the same,” a footman later said.

Staffers also told Quinn that Diana and Prince Charles were often heard taking part in noisy arguments from their Kensington Palace apartments.

“There is a myth that Charles and Diana were living happily in this beautiful palace, at least for their first few years together, but, actually, you could hear them rowing almost from the day they moved in,” a former communications staffer told him.

This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.

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