“I doubt Kate was offered an equerry [for guidance],” the author claims a friend told the Duchess of Sussex.
The above from the Page 6 article. And herein again lies the rub. The direct comparison to Catherine, when they entered the RF at very different times and at very different stages of their respective lives, and the assumption that MM should have a fully equal position from the off to her sister in law.
Catherine grew up in the UK with background knowledge of royal pomp and tradition; entered the royal circle when she was barely out of teens; spent a good 10 years before marriage getting to know the institution; settled into her married role, rightly or wrongly, knowing where she stood in the pecking order (rightly, if you regard the institution as a place of employment); created a role for herself through the early years stuff and in conjunction with W and H within the Royal Foundation (which includes Invictus); and generally she learned the role from the ground up over nearly 20 years before MM arrived.
MM arrived as a woman in her late 30s, no background in the UK or RF, but wanted to hit the ground running. Well, that's not going to happen in any successful way without help. She didn't want to be taught, and there's no evidence that she was interested in learning. She wanted to come in, take over boss lady like, and change everything, with no understanding of what she was changing.
There's a quotation in a book I read as a child that always stays with me. Along the lines of, "Confront the system, and it will crush you. Outwit the system, and you will reap the rewards."
I remember everyone loving her when she first arrived. She's have had the world at her feet is she had outwitted the system. If she had been willing to just watch, learn, understand, take her time and then start introducing changes through sensible suggestions of modernisation, strategic hiring, making allegiances with like minded royals etc, she'd have it all now.