And the way Fergie was treated was much, much worse. She only saw Andrew a couple of months a year and had very small children. It was relentless about her, her figure, her appearance, her attitude. She had zero support and was just told to get on with it.
Diana treated her dreadfully. She leaked negative stories about Fergie to deflect from her own poor behaviour and goaded her into leaving Andrew by making a pact (which Diana didn't honour) to leave their husbands at the same time. Diana did that because she wanted to see what happened to Fergie and learn from her mistakes, like sending a canary down a mine. Diana even acknowledged the Yorks were soul mates who'd never really split but she still goaded Fergie into leaving.
When the Yorks split it was because the establishment had decided she had to go. The first photos which appeared of Beatrice with Fergie's lover Steve Wyatt was almost certainly planted by MI5 in his former apartment because staff had cleaned the area thoroughly after he vacated and swore the photos were not there until months later. It was suggested there was complicity of the security services in the toe sucking picks too. She was deliberately drummed out.
I think people forget that the media was so different then and so concentrated. There were less than 10 newspapers that most people got their news from and there were daily headlines. It was very concentrated and meant the reach and pervasiveness of negative stories was far, far higher. It's not like now when people who aren't interested just don't click on the stories.
And the intensity of coverage of Fergie and Diana is not something that will ever happen again because of the internet. The RF has learned from their mistakes with Fergie and Diana and is much more supportive to the new generation of wives. Meghan's experience is nowhere near as bad as that of Diana & Fergie. Not even close.