A royal expert is speaking out this week to reveal that Meghan Markle’s Hollywood past came back to bite her after she married Prince Harry, as it created a “clash of cultures” with palace aides.

Camilla Tominey, a longtime royal expert and commentator for The Telegraph, told The New Yorker that Buckingham Palace staffers were “less enamored of the very qualities that made her irresistible to the press: her showbiz luster, self-confidence and feminist habits of assertion.” She added that Meghan’s Hollywood past “did not go down well behind palace doors.”

“It’s a bit like ‘Downton Abbey’ – there’s a hierarchy of staff who have been at Buckingham Palace for years and years, to serve Queen and country,” explained Tominey, who has covered the British royal family for decades. “And, therefore, for Harry and Meghan to be making demands, there was a bit of below-stairs chatter, particularly with the Duchess, that was, ‘Well, hang on a minute, who do you think you are?’”

The situation reportedly became so tension-filled that Harry and Meghan made the decision to step down as senior members of the British royal family, which they announced in January of this year. They have since left the United Kingdom and moved to Meghan’s hometown of Los Angeles, California, a move that has reportedly been hard on Harry’s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth.

“It is sad for the Queen – at 93, the last thing she wants to see is her family disappear into the sunset – and it is also a letdown for the British people,” said former Buckingham Palace Press Secretary Dickie Arbiter, according to Fox News. “But the British people are stoic, and they get on with it. And, if that’s what Harry and Meghan want, good luck to them.”

As for Harry and Meghan, they seem to be firmly focused on the future, as they unveiled the name of their charity foundation Archewell just last week.

“We connected to this concept for the charitable organization we hoped to build one day, and it became the inspiration for our son’s name,” they said in announcing they had named the foundation after their son Archie. “To do something of meaning, to do something that matters. Archewell is a name that combines an ancient word for strength and action, and another that evokes the deep resources we each must draw upon.”

They were hasty to add that they were in no rush to actually kickstart the charity in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

“Like you, our focus is on supporting efforts to tackle the global COVID-19 pandemic, but faced with this information coming to light, we felt compelled to share the story of how this came to be,” the couple said. “We look forward to launching Archewell when the time is right.”