The royal family is reportedly not happy after Meghan Markle posted a fresh set of wedding photos that critics are calling deeply inappropriate for a royal anniversary. And you know the backlash is serious when even Angela Levin, usually one of the more composed voices in royal commentary, appears visibly frustrated on camera.
In this video, we are going to look at Angela Levin’s reaction and break down why Meghan may have chosen to release these particular images now. Was this simply an anniversary post or was there a bigger strategy behind it? >> I know leaked Prince Harry’s private pictures, never before seen, of them intimately kissing on their wedding day.
>> She was trying to make the most horrible sight you could see for it, you know, to be at the royal family, the British royal family, and to show all this, is just beyond disgusting. But they were only wanted to do it in a very vulgar way for everyone to see. Made me feel sick, honestly.
I don’t care what she does at home. I don’t care what she feels about anything in her sexual life. But I think that you actually do behave when you’re with such important people. >> It was Meghan and Prince Harry’s eighth wedding anniversary, a milestone most couples would mark quietly, privately, or with a simple message of love.
But with the Sussexes, even a wedding anniversary can become a full media event. Their marriage has already been surrounded by years of controversy, interviews, family tension, public criticism, and endless speculation. So, when Meghan chose to celebrate the eighth year by posting previously unseen wedding photos, people were always going to look closely.
But the reaction became much stronger because of the kind of pictures she selected. >> I thought this huge photo album selection of their wedding day 8 years ago. It’s their 8th wedding anniversary today posted by Meghan on Instagram. >> Meghan reportedly went back through her private wedding archive and chose images that had not been widely seen before.
If these had been simple traditional wedding portraits, the backlash may have been much softer. Instead, [music] critics say she posted intimate kissing moments, private reception scenes, and behind-the-scenes wedding content that many royal watchers believe should have stayed private. To them, the issue was not that Meghan celebrated her marriage, the issue was that she appeared to turn one of the most sacred royal events of the last decade into another public-facing content drop.
And that is why Angela Levin’s reaction matters. Because for critics, this was not just nostalgia. It looked like another carefully-timed reminder that Meghan still controls parts of the royal wedding story, and she knows exactly how to make people talk. >> She has decided to open her photo book to the world. These pictures never before seen from the wedding.
>> Those were the kinds of moments many people believed should have stayed inside the private wedding archive. Not because Meghan cannot celebrate her own marriage, but because royal weddings are not ordinary celebrity events. They are part family ceremony, part national history, and part public institution.
So, when unseen intimate reception images suddenly appeared online years later, critics felt Meghan had crossed from nostalgia into exposure. The palace reportedly [music] did not find the post amusing, and many royal watchers asked the same question. Why did these personal moments need to be shared now? If the anniversary was about love, a simple tribute would have done the job, but this looked more like a carefully selected content drop designed to restart the wedding conversation on Meghan’s terms. For many
observers though, the private nature of the photos was not even the biggest issue. [music] What stood out even more was who appeared to be missing. Instead of showing a balanced wedding memory that included Harry’s royal family, Meghan seemed to leave that side almost completely out of the frame. The post gave space to her own world, especially her mother, Doria Ragland, while visible members of Harry’s royal family were nearly absent from the collection.
>> Yeah, you’ll notice who’s not there, right? Apart from a very far away glimpse of King Charles, there’s a lots of Doria Ragland, but nothing of the British royal family. >> Harry’s going to be furious about this. >> Then came the song choice, “Forever Your Girl” by Paula Abdul, and even that became part of the debate.
To some people, the song felt sweet and romantic, but critics heard something more pointed in it, almost possessive, as if Meghan was sending a message that Harry was firmly hers, and that nobody else had any say in the story. >> Allerton, there was also something coded in the song that she chose to put these pictures to, Paula Abdul’s “Forever Your Girl”.
To be honest, I think that’s a bit more of a threat to Prince Harry, isn’t it? It’s like, “You’re not getting away from me.” >> Even Angela Levin, who usually keeps her tone controlled when discussing Meghan and Harry, appeared visibly frustrated over what she described as a stunt. That reaction mattered because Levin has covered the couple for years, and she understood why these images would irritate royal watchers.
You could reportedly hear the anger in her voice as she questioned why Meghan would release pictures many believed were meant to remain private. Levin argued that the kissing photos felt inappropriate for a royal wedding archive and far too intimate to be pushed into the public years later. To her, this was not a harmless anniversary post.
It looked like another calculated reminder that Meghan still holds pieces of the royal story and is willing to use them whenever the spotlight starts fading. >> Because this is absolutely not royal. It’s very rude. It’s vulgar. And if you want to kiss away, absolutely fine. There’s loads of places places she could go away.
This is now to make everybody angry about it and think that um this is what she’s like and she doesn’t care what anybody thinks. >> Angela questioned whether Meghan truly understood the message she was sending. In her view, releasing such private wedding material while the marriage is already surrounded by years of controversy was not a smart move.
To Angela, the photos did not feel elegant, careful, or royal. They felt too personal, too exposed, and too obviously designed to make people react. And that is where she argued Meghan had missed the dignity she has so often spoken about in public. >> This is how she behaves. Because if you were with people who you liked or your people with your very grateful because they spent hundreds of millions of pounds on you, you wouldn’t do something that would be vulgar.
Why would you? You wouldn’t do it. So this is absolutely the opposite of going and looking through all the pictures and taking the ones that she thinks would have the most power. >> But Angela did not stop there. She went even further, saying Meghan seems to thrive on attention and knows exactly how to provoke a reaction. According to Angela, controversy does not hurt Meghan the way it might hurt someone else.
It keeps her in the headlines. That was the sharpest part of her criticism. Angela suggested that Meghan understands the media game very well, and that upsetting people may be part of the strategy. The more people talk, the more the post travels. The more the post travels, the more Meghan stays at the center of the conversation.
>> She loves cuz she says she’s got loads of things which she can always make people feel very worried about. There we are. Um you know, I don’t want to know if they’re going to go to bed with each other in 5 minutes. I mean, I really am not interested. I’m not interested how they kiss.
I would like to see how happy they were. They were having a lovely time and a nice kiss, maybe even arms around the neck, but you don’t have to behave like a tart, do you? >> Then the discussion turned to the royal wedding itself, and Angela appeared even more frustrated. The royal family spent a huge amount of money giving Harry and Meghan a grand wedding watched around the world. Windsor Castle, St.
George’s Chapel, the carriage procession, the global broadcast, the security, the guests, the full royal treatment, all of it created one of the biggest royal moments of the decade. And yet many critics believe Meghan has shown very little gratitude toward the institution that made that day possible. That is why these anniversary photos landed so badly for some royal watchers.
They saw it as Meghan using the wedding again, while still keeping the royal family at a distance. >> She now, as soon as it was after finished, she said that she didn’t want that sort of wedding. It was a horrible wedding. It was too much. It wasn’t very nice. She wanted to have a tiny little wedding, so it would really be sincere.
So, she could spoil it for something cost 33 million pounds, and she chucked it out of her mind. >> What made the situation even more awkward was Meghan later saying she would have preferred a smaller, more private wedding. Critics quickly pointed out the contradiction. When the royal wedding was happening, she accepted the spotlight, the celebrity guests, and the worldwide attention.
But years later, she has framed the spectacle as something she did not truly want. Now, after all of that, she is releasing intimate from the same wedding that many believe should have stayed private. Angela was especially focused on who Meghan appeared to leave out. Most of the royal family seemed absent from the anniversary post, and to Angela, that felt intentional.
The photo choices seemed to tell a story. Meghan wanted the wedding, the memories, and the royal glamour, but not necessarily the royal family attached to it. And if that was the message, Angela believed it was loud and clear. >> Uh and no pictures of any other members of the British royal family. Every single one of them censored out by this woman.
I mean, that is a flat-out statement. Uh never mind, you know, implying. That is a flat-out statement that this woman, Meghan Markle, absolutely hates the British royal family. Sim- Simple as that. >> This becomes even more sensitive because Harry is reportedly trying to rebuild some kind of working relationship with the royal family ahead of the Invictus Games 2027, which will take place in the United Kingdom.
Many believe Harry wants stronger public ties with the family again, especially around an event so closely connected to his identity and legacy. But according to critics, Meghan’s anniversary post may have made that road even harder. If Harry is trying to soften the mood, releasing private royal wedding content that appears to exclude the royal family does not exactly help the mission.
Some observers believe Meghan may not truly want that reconciliation at all. They argue she benefits from the distance because life outside the royal structure gives her more freedom, more control, and more room to shape the Sussex story on her own terms. >> You know, this is of quite a difficult time because Harry wants to go back to the UK, she doesn’t want to.
So, she’s trying to do things as nastiest possible so that they won’t let her come in or do things. And I I’d be delighted if she doesn’t. I mean, it is absolutely revolting. >> That is where the jealousy argument enters the conversation again. Some critics believe Meghan’s choices are partly driven by resentment [music] toward Catherine, William, and the monarchy itself.
To them, the wedding photos did not feel random. They felt like a message. Why release such intimate images publicly after all these years unless the goal was to remind everyone that she still owns part of the royal story. >> The driving force in her life is jealousy of uh particularly the Princess of Wales, Catherine and William, and a sort of hatred of all of her husband’s family, her in-laws.
She despises them and to cut them out. Every single one of them. >> And the controversy did not stop with the wedding photos. Meghan also posted content involving her daughter Lilibet, which raised a different kind of concern. Many royal watchers have noticed a pattern. >> [music] >> Meghan sometimes includes the children in public-facing content while still partly hiding their faces.
Supporters say that is a careful way to share family moments while protecting privacy. But critics argue it creates a strange middle ground where the children are still being used to generate public interest even if their full faces are not shown. >> Well, you can see that actually. There’s Meghan, she’s got her dress.
There’s this little girl sitting down knowing that no one is allowed to see her face. Can you imagine for a child of four? She’s not She mustn’t turn around. Her hair is never cut properly. I watch it and she never really does it. It’s a mess, right? >> There were also online discussions about whether Lilibet appeared uncomfortable in one of the images, with some people focusing on her posture and body language.
That kind of speculation has to be handled carefully because she is a child and should not be picked apart by strangers. But the larger concern remains fair to ask. If Harry and Meghan have spent years speaking about privacy, media intrusion, and protecting children, why keep placing their children inside public content at [music] all? Critics believe Meghan may be prioritizing image, emotion, and attention over the very boundaries she says she wants to protect.
>> And what annoyed me to the the same time that this was going ahead was a little Lilibet. Um I couldn’t bear that either because she wanted to show off. Just before we saw the pictures, she wanted to show off “Mommy is so lovely.” And this little kid was sitting down with something wrong with her foot, but I couldn’t judge what it was.
And she had to watch her mother. As we know, she is not allowed to try turn around. >> Many people now accuse Meghan of using carefully chosen family content to increase engagement and keep public curiosity alive online. And that has opened up a bigger question. Should children be placed so often inside polished PR moments [music] even when their faces are partly hidden? Critics argue that this is where the Sussex privacy message starts to look messy.
On one hand, Harry and Meghan have spoken for years about protecting their children from unwanted attention. [music] On the other hand, family images still appear when the public conversation needs to be redirected, softened, or emotionally charged. Now, here is the alleged hidden agenda behind the timing of these wedding photos. Some observers believe Meghan did not release them simply because of the anniversary.
They believe she needed a bigger headline, something personal enough and dramatic enough to pull attention away from the embarrassment surrounding her recent Geneva speech event, where some reports claimed the turnout looked painfully small. >> Okay, we set it up just so you can see. Like, literally nobody is on the side.
They have all the ropes up to protect her from crowds coming. There’s one woman in the background. No one is there. You just keep watching because we we panned the camera, we found the shots to show like, okay, were were there tons of people in front of her? There were not. Were there tons of people on the other side? No.
It reads, “No child lost to social media.” No one is listening to her. >> Because that Geneva appearance generated negative headlines, critics now believe Meghan reached back into the royal wedding archive and released intimate photos from eight years ago to change the conversation. And from a PR angle, the logic is not hard to understand.
If people are laughing about a weak crowd, give them something emotional, romantic, controversial, and royal to argue about instead. During the Geneva speech itself, viewers online pointed to moments in the background where some audience members [music] appeared distracted while Meghan was speaking.
Others claimed the event lacked the energy and support expected for such a serious subject. Some commentators also said Meghan looked tense during parts of the event, as if she knew the room was not giving her the reaction she wanted. Whether that is fair or not, the optics were not strong, and in Meghan’s world, optics are everything.
>> Where, you might ask my friend, had she decided to post these intimate pictures? Oh, that’s right, on Mark Zuckerberg’s social media network. Yes, the the same social media network which she has just been campaigning against >> [music] >> in Geneva. >> Then came another contradiction people could not stop talking about.
During her Geneva appearance, Meghan spoke strongly about the harmful effects of social media platforms and the dangers children can face online. But not long after, she returned to that same online space and posted highly personal family-related content for millions of people to consume, analyze, repost, and debate. For many critics, that looked completely inconsistent.
They questioned how someone can condemn the culture of social media while still using it so aggressively to shape a public image. And that is why the wedding photos landed so badly for some royal watchers. It was not just the pictures, it was the timing, the platform, the family angle, and the contradiction all hitting at once.
>> For it appears that at the dinner hosted by the World Health Organization in Geneva, Meghan posed for a photo with a Finnish far-right politician who has been accused of sending vile racist text messages and of seeing young women and girls. >> And while Meghan was already trying to regain control of the conversation, another controversy was waiting right beside it.
At a dinner connected to the World Health Organization, Meghan reportedly posed for photos with Willem Rideman. On its own, a public event photo might not seem like much. People ask for pictures all the time, especially when a famous figure is in the room. But the problem was not simply the picture, >> [music] >> The problem was the public controversy already attached to his name.
Rideman has faced accusations and criticism over past behavior and remarks that many people found offensive and that is where the backlash began. Meghan has built much of her public image around standing against racism, discrimination and harmful public behavior. She has spoken about these themes many times including in connection with her own claims about royal life.
So, when she was reportedly photographed with someone who had faced criticism over offensive comments and controversial statements involving minorities and Muslim women, critics immediately called out the contradiction. >> Meghan had a cozy dinner with a accused politician. Here he is. Willy Rideman and he is a Finnish politician who according to the royalist is facing sex harassment and racism allegations.
The Daily Mail reporting actually that Meghan seemed tense and nervous in Switzerland which the Royal News Network quite rightly points out, I’m sure the absence of a cheering crowd was a big part of that. Queen Esther noting, “Dear Meghan Markle, for your next engagement perhaps include rent a crowd in the planning.
Those wide angle shots have been rather unforgiving lately.” >> Many people questioned why Meghan would allow herself to be linked even briefly to someone with that kind of public baggage. Some argued that if Meghan truly lives by the values she promotes, her team should have been more careful about who appeared beside her in photographs.
However, Meghan’s side reportedly pushed back by saying they were unaware of his background. >> [music] >> They also argued that at public events, it is not always realistic to fully investigate every person who asks for a photo. And that may be true, but critics say this is exactly the problem with Meghan’s public image now.
Every appearance is analyzed, every photo is examined, every contradiction becomes another headline. >> [music] >> And when you build your brand on moral awareness, people expect you to be careful with every single frame. So, what do you think? Was Meghan’s wedding photo drop just an anniversary post, or was it a calculated distraction from the Geneva backlash? And should her children be appearing in public-facing content at all? Drop your thoughts in the comments below.
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