Meghan Markle is undoubtedly feeling humiliated right now, as the negative nicknames that palace aides  allegedly gave her during her brief time in the British royal family have just been revealed.

Tom Quinn is a royal expert who just released the book “Kensington Palace: An Intimate Memoir from Queen Mary to Meghan Markle,” for which he spoke to the aides who have worked with the royal family for years. It was during these discussions that Quinn learned that Meghan had been given the nicknames “Me-Gain” and “the Duchess of Difficult” by aides in the wake of her marriage to Prince Harry.

“The nicknames, they’re inevitable,” Quinn explained to Fox News. “The British press are famously good at taking someone and building them up and saying they’re absolutely wonderful. And then when that story runs out of steam, they need something else. So they then come up with the opposite. They run that person down… The nicknames were picked up by the press and used against Meghan. They did, in fact, come from the palace.”

Quinn added that many palace staffers felt that Meghan was “too demanding” for someone who was new to the royal family, as she quickly became infamous for calling staffers in the middle of the night and sending emails at 5am.

“It was felt that she was demanding,” the expert said. “I think Meghan felt, ‘I’ve got to really do this. I’ve got to show them that I mean business.’ … I think there’s some truth in it, in the problem being that she’s so different. And so that inevitably made it more difficult from the outset for her to be accepted fully as part of the royal family. And the press is very powerful in Britain.”

“They loved Meghan initially and that actually made it easy for Meghan to feel that she was part of the family,” Quinn added. “But when they decided that story was boring… they emphasized she was difficult because of this difference.”

The royal author said that the criticisms of Meghan only got worse after she spoke out against the press in the 2019 ITV documentary “Harry & Meghan: An African Journey.” In this film, she claimed that she was unprepared for the level of tabloid scrutiny that she received in Britain, despite warnings from British friends about what it would be like.

“I had no idea,” she said at the time. “Which probably sounds difficult to understand here, but when I first met my now-husband, my friends were really happy because I was so happy, but my British friends said to me, ‘I’m sure he’s great, but you shouldn’t do it because the British tabloids will destroy your life.’”

Harry and Meghan had already launched legal action against tabloids when this documentary was filmed.

“She should never try to explain herself,” Quinn said. “It just doesn’t work. Meghan constantly said, ‘All I want for the press is to be fair.’ Well, that’s so naive. That’s not what the press does. They’re not interested in being fair. The press is just interested in stirring up some fun. It can be painful.”

In the end, Quinn said that Meghan broke the rule that royals have always followed when it comes to the press: never complain, never explain.

“Unfortunately, the British press saw the very things that made Meghan different,” he said. “They quickly gave those things an unpleasant spin. The press initially was very unkind to Kate Middleton and her parents. They would describe how her mother Carol descended from the lowest of the low as she labored away in a very poor suburb of London. Now Carol is praised as a doting mother. But she never complained. She never said a word. And within a few days, the press moved on to something else. The same happened with Kate.”

“And just like her mother, Kate didn’t say anything,” Quinn continued. “Since they didn’t respond, the press didn’t have anything to sink their teeth into. If the press says something unkind and you respond, then the anger becomes the story. Someone once [told me] it’s the price [these royals] pay for being paid millions every year by British taxpayers to live like 18th-century aristocrats.”

Despite all of this, Quinn isn’t too worried about Meghan, as he sees her as a tough woman with a devoted husband by her side.

“Meghan’s a strong woman,” he said. “Famously, Harry said to someone, ‘What Meghan wants, Meghan gets.’ And so I think he fully supports her… He’s besotted by Meghan. And Harry definitely sides with Meghan.”

Quinn concluded by saying that at this point, it’s the royals who are nervous.

“The royal family is nervous,” he claimed. “You know, where will they go next? I’ve already heard that Harry’s not very happy in California, so they may go somewhere else. If you’ve been in the gilded cage, you might be free of it, which is what Harry and Meghan want to be free of. The sunlit uplands are suddenly there in front of you, but it’s not like that. It’s the same. Wherever you go, whatever sort of personality, whatever difficulty you have – you take those with you. And I don’t think Harry and Meghan realize that yet, but they probably will.”