Meghan Markle and Prince Harry relocated to California after stepping down as senior working royals in 2020 – they haven’t been invited to a major royal event for two years now.
Sophie was given a new title after her husband Prince Edward was promoted to Duke of Edinburgh following Charles’ ascension to the throne.
She was duty-bound to curtsey to the Duchess of Sussex as Meghan was a higher rank when she was a senior working royal.
But one of Sophie’s friends told the Mail on Sunday she is relieved she doesn’t have to anymore. “Sophie is relieved. She no longer has to curtsy to someone in the family who has not only left Royal duties but has spent the past three years criticising the institution that Sophie works so hard to support,” they said.
Meghan Markle once believed that curtseying was a joke, as revealed in her Netflix docuseries.
The Sussexes revealed that before a meeting with the late Queen, Harry asked Meghan: “‘You know how to curtsey, right?’ Meghan then tells the documentary crew: “I just thought it was a joke” offering an exaggerated version of the curtsey she gave the Queen and laughing.
