JAKE ROSENBERG/NETFLIX Meghan Markle viewed royal life as restrictive during her brief stint as a working duchess. According to Daily Express, royal biographer Tom Quinn claimed the Suits star viewed the monarchy as "a kind of prison." In his book Kensington Palace, Quinn said that the "initial glamor" of being royal "wore off," leaving Meghan "horrified." Chris Jackson/Getty Images One builder told Quinn that Meghan and Prince Harry turned Frogmore Cottage into a "Californian condo." Meghan seemed annoyed at the living arrangements, stating, "I don't want to retire to rural obscurity." "Meghan realized that living there would be like living in the Russian steppe," a source told Quinn. "Its remoteness made Kensington seem like the center of the universe." Throughout their relationship, the Sussexes complained about paparazzi, but Quinn argued that settling into Frogmore Cottage didn't shift the public's interest. "As Meghan and Harry quickly discovered, their flight to Windsor did not mean an escape from the world's enquiring eye; instead, it revealed to that world a lack of foresight," Quinn wrote. @gleamygleamyglamglam The LIE that Her Royal Highness Princess Meghan the Duchess of Sussex said royal life was inauthentic and she hated wearing pantyhose is just untrue. She simply stated that wearing pantyhose was inauthentic for HERSELF. I think Meghan was trying to show the difference between being a duchess as a working royal and not and being able to wear what she likes. As a working royal she had to uphold certain dress rules. #meghanmarkle #meghansussex #princeharry #royalfamily ♬ original sound - Shajuana Years after returning to California, Meghan joked about how different her life was in the U.K. "I had to wear nude pantyhose all the time," Meghan told The Circuit when asked about her time in the royal fold. "Let's be honest, that was not very myself. I hadn't seen pantyhose since the '80s, when they came in the little egg? That felt a little bit inauthentic, but that's a silly example." "But it is an example of when you're able to dress the way you wanna dress, and you're able to say the things that are true, and you're able to show up in the space really organically and authentically, that's being comfortable in your own skin. And that's, of course, had different chapters in my life," Meghan continued. "But right now, no, I don't feel, I don't feel that I need to prove anything." @lastinglooks Meghan Markle explains why she never wore color in the UK. #meghanmarkle #harryandmeghan #harryandmeghannetflix #meghanmarklefashion #fashiontok #lastinglooks #fyp ♬ Smiles & Sunsets - ultmt. & Hz. In Harry & Meghan, Meghan hinted at trying to avoid taking attention away from her in-laws. "Most of the time that I was in the U.K., I rarely wore color. There was thought in that," Meghan said in the documentary. "To my understanding, you could never wear the same color as Her Majesty [Queen Elizabeth] if there's a group event, but then you also shouldn't be wearing the same color as one of the other more senior members of the family." The post Meghan described royal living arrangement as 'a prison' appeared first on Wonderwall.com.