Thanks to a phrase from a recent interview, the gossip moves about Meghan Markle’s upcoming move, and would send shockwaves around the world.
Take a closer look at the photos taken, exactly four years ago exactly, of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex supposedly enjoying a day together at the Wimbledon women’s final and you’ll notice something especially strange. In all the photos, Meghan wears a Panama hat that she didn’t wear even once.
What to you, me, and everyone else we’ve talked about “Slip, slop, slap” as an eminently sensible move was, in fact, a hoax, because hats are frowned upon in the royal box.
Either no one within the rarefied circles of royal life bothered to inform the new duchess of this particular rule or simply ignored the helpers and wore her hat anyway.
If there was ever a sign that the story of the 21st century Cinderella who was the Duchess of Sussex will not unfold as everyone had assumed, then The Hat Was.
So if Meghan’s story would never end up singing cartoon birds, if the fairy tale was over before it started, if the restrictive reality of real life was never going to be one she could or should be submitted, then where did he do it? does she want or expect things to end for her?
A theory that has gained strength in recent days: Washington DC
The question of Meghan’s possible political ambitions was revived last week later
Meghan, without a hat, took part in a conversation with the famous feminist Gloria Steinem and the journalist Jessica Yellin for Vogue on the recently horrific annulment of Roe v Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court. who for 50 years had ruled that abortion was a constitutional right.
“Well, Gloria, it might seem like you and I are going on a trip to DC together soon,” Meghan said in the chat.
The weekend, Daily mail Columnist Dan Wootton, a man who has never been shy about expressing his astringent views on the Sussex, added new fuel to that fire, explaining “a conversation I had with one of the collaborators Meghan ‘s increasingly frustrated close to early 2019 as her relationships within the king. the family became increasingly toxic. “
According to Wootton, the courtier told him, “I am now convinced that there is something bigger here: an eventual plan that involves running for office in the United States.”
“She’s obsessed with American politics. I think we are [the royal family] now just a step towards something she considers much more important and attractive. “
Leaving aside the suspicious suspicion and resentment at the words of this courtier, it is fair to say that Meghan has never been a woman who has had much convention.
Would having an incline in the office really be a leap?
Just out of Megxit, in 2020, Meghan launched into the “get out of the vote” effort by participating in an online event hosted by Michelle Obama’s nonprofit When All Women Vote and voters shouting in the cold.
“I know what it’s like to have a voice and also what it’s like to feel voiceless,” Meghan said. Marie Claire. (Desam, I wonder what else you could refer to there?)
In September of that year, she and her husband, Prince Harry, appeared together in a video to encourage Americans to go to the polls in what was widely read as a endorsement by Joe Biden for the presidency.
At that moment, a close friend of Meghan’s said Vanity Fair: “One of the reasons he was so eager not to give up his American citizenship was because he had the option to go into politics. I think if Meghan and Harry gave up their titles, they would consider seriously run for president.
It’s 2021 and the election of Biden, and Meghan was still there. When the Sussex caravan arrived in New York in September, the couple’s itinerary and the look of it all looked a lot more like a Congressional campaign than a royal outing. His cool California wardrobe disappeared and there were custom-made pants, $ 1,800 collars and a clean bun, as the duo walked in and out of important buildings like the UN and WHO, with leather brochures, with the face put in serious problem mode.
In November, through Politico, it became known that Meghan had taken over the cause of paid parental leave, coldly calling on bewildered American senators who had no reluctance to throw her under the bus to the media. (Sen. Susan Collins said, “I was happy to talk to her. But I’m more interested in what the people of Maine are telling me about it.”)
There have been other clues that a foray into politics could be seriously on the Duchess’s radar, including the couple’s meeting with California Gov. Gavin Newsom. A Democratic strategist said so Time at this point: “Everything he’s doing is similar to what other people have done before running for office.” They also said, “He’s definitely putting his toe in the water.”
The question of how serious Meghan could be about a career is tempting.
After all, America is home to the second act and the United States has already gotten two presidents who used their stardom on the screen to catapult them to the most powerful job in the world.
On top of all that, ending up as a senator (or rather) would give Meghan something that has really escaped her, even now despite her wealth and title: true power of her own and on her own terms.
As Royal Biographer Tina Brown recently said in an interview with Washington Post“She was always the number six actress on the call sheet … Essentially, Prince Harry also married the number six on the call sheet.”
The appeal of being number one on the list of calls from the Pope, Chiefs of Staff and Beyonce would look pretty good in this context.
However, the sacrifices that Meghan and Harry would have to make if they really had the desire to one day maintain the nuclear codes would be immense.
Most obviously, they would have to give up their Sussex titles altogether.
The mother of two could also say goodbye to the privacy she and Harry had created in their hometown of Montecito.
Meghan would have to pledge to raise funds month after month, aspire to Democratic donors, have to shake tens of thousands of hands, hug babies of strangers and pose for selfies.
The whole process, even before I got to the office, would be exhausting, expensive and
he put a goal behind his family in terms of press, criticism and the often toxic miasma that are the hordes of social media. Or basically all the things the Sussex left the UK to escape.
Meanwhile, Harry and Meghan’s payers on Netflix and Spotify would probably be less than impressed if they suddenly focused their attention on a political campaign. Since the Duke and Duchess now have to collect their own bills, they need these promised hundreds of millions to keep the lights on and the kombucha fountain running.
(As he said “a well-informed source”. Vanity Fair in 2020: “I really don’t think he has political ambitions now. But his ego has no limits, so maybe he keeps the door open. But now he can’t, because they’re very focused on making money. Running for public office and making a fortune they don’t go together. “)
All this before considering the category five crisis that would trigger a Meghan campaign at Buckingham Palace.
But risks, like hats, are something that clearly has a fondness for Meghan.
I’m sure it was pure coincidence that when Meghan teamed up with Steinem in 2020 to create a video to encourage people to vote, she chose to wear a Panama hat especially wide-brimmed.
Daniela Elser is a royal expert and writer with over 15 years of experience working with several of Australia’s leading media titles.
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