Eva, Duchess of Sussex.
A royal expert has revealed that nickname that Meghan Markle’s disgruntled Spotify employees used to call her — and it has a scathing Joan Crawford connection.
“Ex-staff members told me they decided to christen her ‘Eva’ and this was used as a warning signal to let people know that she was either arriving or on the warpath,” UK royal correspondent Neil Sean told Fox News Digital on Thursday.
Sean noted that the moniker for Markle — whose former Spotify co-workers unloaded on her in a recent Vanity Fair exposé — “wasn’t an engaging pet nickname.”
“The nickname came from the 1955 camp classic ‘Queen Bee’ starring the ultimate diva herself – Joan Crawford,” Sean explained. “This is because, like the Joan character [Eva Phillips], she stung her victims to pieces. This is exactly how staff felt about working alongside [Meghan].”
Directed by Ranald MacDougall, “Queen Bee” stars Crawford as a ruthless woman who runs her Southern family and threatens and intimidates anyone around her.
Markle, 43, “had no idea about” the Crawford-inspired nickname, Sean said, according to his source.
Prince Harry, meanwhile, was known by the Spotify workers as “Tim Nice But Dim,” in reference to the upper-class twit from the British sketch show “Harry Enfield & Chums.”
[Like Meghan], he’s unaware of the moniker,” Sean said.
The Post has reached out to Harry and Markle’s rep for comment.
The Duchess of Sussex hosted a podcast called “Archetypes” for Spotify. Only a mere 12 episodes were produced during a two-and-a-half-year span, and the $20M deal between Spotify and Markle and Harry’s Archewell Audio came to an end in June 2023.
In the Vanity Fair piece about the Sussexes’ personal and professional lives, one of Markle’s former Spotify employees called her a “‘Mean Girls’ teenager” while describing the “awful” and “painful” experience they had working with her.
The staffer said Markle began warm, complimentary and encouraging, but she’d “become cold and withholding toward the person she perceived to be responsible” if something didn’t go her way.
Two further sources claimed that a “colleague with ties to ‘Archetypes’” quit working on the podcast after only three episodes. Others took “extended breaks from work to escape scrutiny,” per Vanity Fair.
But producer Jane Marie, who also worked with the couple on “Archewell,” called Markle “a lovely, genuine person.”
Sean addressed the Vanity Fair exposé about Markle and Harry to Fox News Digital, saying that “there many things that were not covered” in the article.
“Behind the scenes, staff [found] Meghan really difficult to deal with, simply because of her mood swings and just how well certain aspects of her career [were] going,” he explained. “[They] thought she was quite tough and bossy, so decided to [give her] the nickname of that character. She was high camp without realizing it.’”
Sean also claimed the former “Suits” actress only wanted “to speak to the person at the top” when she worked alongside them.
“This worked at the beginning as people were beguiled by Meghan’s presence,” he said, adding, “But it quickly wore off when she became demanding, clearly forgetting her struggling actress days.”
