Somewhat different circumstances, but when Wallis Simpson took King Edward away from the crown, she must have been reviled by the British people.
Removing King Edward was probably a great blessing in disguise, in the end - but at least he had the grace to realize he couldn’t ‘have his cake and eat it.’ If you don’t want to serve, you don’t get the perks.
(And I think Markle had dug her hole with the family and the Brits before the big move.)
Wallis Simpson did Britain a favour by making that narcissistic Nazi sympathiser abdicate the throne before World War II.
Nobody that I know in Britain had anything against MeAgain because she was foreign, most consorts of the monarchs down the years have been foreign in any case. It was because she undermined the values of the monarchy which were centred around service, duty and stoicism. After a few months it began to become apparent that she wanted the wealth, status and fame of being a Royal but she didn’t want to put the hard work in and accept the sacrifices that she had to make on what she could do and when she could do it in order to serve the people of Britain and the Commonwealth.
And she dragged Harry along with her, and then started slating the monarchy itself and gave the impression that she thought the monarchy needed to be ‘reformed’ so that she could live the life she wanted to do and not the life she was expected to as the quid pro quo of being a Royal with expectations as opposed to just another self-indulgent, vacuous celebrity rock or movie star.