A source close to the family issued a statement.
This is not a game it is her life and his."
Things only got worse from there.

Meghan has since spoken aboutforgiving the royal family.
The issues are so intense that even further removed cousins are weighing in on the subject.
Now, another member of the family has come forward in support of the duchess.

“If she can just hang in there, someone else will come along who can take the heat.
Nobody gets a pass.”
She added that even Catherine Middleton, the Princess of Wales, didn’t get a pass.

“They meant no disrespect; after all, she is the future queen of England.”
Oxenberg also claims Meghan had a tough time because she was American.
“They are tough, they are tough on foreigners,” she said.
“It’s not about your skin color, it’s about being a foreigner.”
She concluded by stating, “She is Harry’s choice of wife.
By their own metrics, they have called it a class system.
They came up with that system, [by which] you have to respect Harry’s choice.”
Prince Michael of Kent’s wife, Marie Christine von Reibnitz, of Czech-German descent endured a similar situation.
“We always used to mock her because she kept referring to the royals as ‘delicious cousins.’
[The hazing] was all done out of habit and not full of hatred and violent plotting.
I was a witness.”
Oxenberg believes that Markle has endured the worst of the hazing, however.