Meghan Markle wants to get all the attention, according to a royal expert.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex recently raised eyebrows after dropping a one-minute clip about their charity work for their Archewell Foundation just hours after Kate Middleton uploaded a video of her Christmas Baby Bank initiative with her three kids -- Prince George, 10; Princess Charlotte, 8; and Prince Louis, 5. While former BBC journalist and investigative reporter Tom Bower weighed in on the issue in an interview with TalkTV when asked what the Sussexes' mindset was, he claimed that Markle wants to become the queen.

"She wants to be queen, as simple as that," Bower said. "And that's been the frustrated ambition of hers. She wants to be more important than Kate. She wants to have world global fame and power. This is all about getting attention [and] that's why they've brought forward the promotion of their charity and released the report."

He also seemingly criticized the royal couple, now based in Los Angeles, for allegedly wanting to be in the news. Bower went on to claim that they fed Omid Scobie with information for his controversial book "Endgame" to "harm the royal family."

"They believe they're in the right. They believe they've got to be in the public spotlight, and they'll do anything they can to achieve it," he added. "And the trouble for them is, they're very, very thin gruel in the pot. There's nothing much they can offer other than tattle and being disloyal."

Meanwhile, former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond also claimed that Markle wasn't happy about being a junior royal to her sister-in-law. She pointed out how Markle wanted to lead but couldn't take on the role in the royal family, which has a strict hierarchical structure.

"And I suspect Meghan found Kate's senior position, with all the protocol that entails, very hard to swallow," she said. "I don't think there's any doubt that Meghan found it very difficult to be a junior member of a team. It's understandable because she was a confident, independent, outspoken feminist with her own career when she joined the Royal family."

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