The Queen’s strict bedtime rule Meghan has to abide by

Meghan Markle always knew her life was going to change dramatically once she married Prince Harry and officially became a part of the royal family.

But little did the Duchess of Sussex know that would extend to what time she went to bed as well.

While there’s no doubt Meghan’s been bound by royal protocol when it comes to her public appearances and what she wears, one of the Queen’s insiders has revealed Her Majesty also dictates other personal habits – especially when her family are staying with her.

According to one of the Queen’s former private secretaries, one of the monarch’s rules is that no one should go to bed before her.

It’s a rule the late Princess Diana is said to have struggled with, with Prince Harry’s mum actually breaking royal protocol rather than stay up.

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“For Diana the long royal evenings were agony,” former secretary to the Queen, Sir William Heseltine revealed in a re-surfaced interview with The Telegraph.

“There’d be an hour or so in the sitting room of everyone sitting around making conversation, and nobody felt it right to go to bed before the Queen did.

“And Diana was driven to such extremes that she’d excuse herself and go to bed, which was thought to be rather bad form, going to bed before the Queen.”

For Meghan, who became used to early nights after due to her grueling Suits schedule saw her picked up at 4.15am, this could be a serious adjustment to her sleep habits.

To be a fly on the wall at the Palace at bedtime…

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