Meghan Markle is being slammed this week by an American viscountess for failing to understand that her “duty is to the queen” as a member of the royal family.

Julie Montagu is an American viscountess from Illinois who moved to the United Kingdom sixteen years ago when she married Luke Timothy Charles Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, the son of the 11th Earl of Sandwich. She knows a thing or two about how difficult it is to marry into the British royal family as an American, and she feels that Meghan was never able to grasp the fact that after marrying Prince Harry, her duty was “to the queen” moving forward.

“You can’t really be anything you want to be or do anything you want to do or say anything you want to say,” Montagu said in the British documentary “Meghan at 40: The Climb to Power,” according to DailyMail.

“Your duty is to the queen and that’s very difficult for someone like Meghan,” she added. “To switch off that American dream off and accept ‘now you have to do what we say’ is difficult. It’s difficult to have love and duty work simultaneously and together and that’s what Harry and Meghan wanted in negotiations with the queen, this synergy, that they can make work, but the queen said no.”

The documentary alleges that Meghan and Harry gave their “truth bomb” interview to Oprah Winfrey in March because they “expected an apology” from the royal family.

“I think she felt it was an opportunity for her to not only share it with the world, but she hoped the royal family was actually listening,” Montagu said.

Montagu told Fox News last year that she was not surprised when Meghan moved back to the United States with Harry.

“She was getting such really relentless negative press from the British tabloid press,” she said at the time. “It doesn’t surprise me at all. I think they had enough. And we saw what happened to Princess Diana. And I think the last thing that Harry wanted to happen was the exact same thing that happened to his mother. So, I think that they really gave it a good go. I mean, I was there, I read all the articles.”

Montagu was also not shocked that Harry decided to leave the U.K. for America.

“I think that Harry was always the rebel, wasn’t he?” she said. “He probably is preferring that life. He’s not hounded by the press. He’s been hounded his entire life. He’s finally being, for the most part, being left alone and he gets to live this laid-back life. They just do what they want to do.”