Meghan Markle recreating her first curtsy in front of Queen Elizabeth II during her Netflix show has been compared to King Charles III’s coronation by royalists.
The Duchess of Sussex said in her Netflix Harry & Meghan documentary about her first meeting with the monarch in a series released three months after Elizabeth’s death.
And she was accused of cultural insensitivity after she performed a mock curtsy that was closer to a bow, saying: “I mean, Americans will understand this, we have ‘medieval times, dinner and tournament.’ It was like that.”
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She then impersonated herself, saying “pleasure to meet you your majesty, was that OK?” and adding that it was “so intense.”
The curtsy became the stand-out viral moment of the Netflix series and has lived on for more than a year afterwards in a variety of TikTok videos.
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The latest shows Meghan’s mock curtsy followed by the pageantry of King Charles’ coronation, including images of the king and Queen Camilla wearing their crowns at the Buckingham Palace balcony.
Prince William and Kate Middleton were also prominent along with their children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
Most of the clips show the royals watching a fly-past by the Royal Air Force, including a display by helicopters as well as aerobatic pilots from the Red Arrows.
The video was posted with the message “Royal Family> M&H” and went viral after it was liked around 38,000 times and viewed 637,000 times.
One reply read: “Meghan and Harry are not cut out for royal life or royal duties.”
Meghan was heavily criticized for the mock curtsy after the Netflix series aired in December 2022.
At the time, Edward Coram James, U.K.-based PR expert and chief executive of Go Up, told Newsweek: “I think the biggest blunder of the entire thing didn’t come from the royal family, it came from the Sussexes, which is the infamous fake bow.