Meghan Markle telling ‘her truth’ with Oprah interview spells end for Royals
MEGHAN last night staked her claim to the very peak of Hollywood’s celebrity A-list, with all the trappings of wealth and power that go with it.
The former Suits actress may be the Duchess of Sussex and wife of a prince, but her two-hour marathon with Oprah Winfrey was the biggest theatrical performance of her life.
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By contrast, Harry’s is just a supporting role.
“What Meghan wants, Meghan gets.”
In five angry words, Prince Harry summed up the rise of this cable TV star to a world of infinite possibilities, perhaps including political power.
Meghan’s choreographed performance provides the money-spinning springboard for her vaulting ambitions — with, ominously, more to come.
The political spin-off seems baked in.
British audiences might recoil at her allegations of racism and petty rivalry.
But in America, where it really counts, the gossip was probably a hit with viewers who already take Meghan’s side, especially under-40s, the target voters who sway American public opinion.
Rumours persist about Meghan running as America’s first female president in 2024 — unlikely since a mixed-race woman is already in pole position for that prize.
The Duchess has already “reached out” to Vice President Kamala Harris during the recent election campaign, and was rewarded with a sisterly response.
There is plenty of time.
The couple have already become firm friends with Democratic Party movers and shakers such as the Obamas, the Clintons and the Clooneys.
“I think if Meghan and Harry ever gave up their titles, she would seriously consider running for President,” says an unnamed friend.
Imagine UK-US relations with President Markle as Commander-in-Chief.
After all, if a clown like Donald Trump can make it from The Apprentice to the White House, why shouldn’t a woman who just wants to be kind?
Any Palace hopes that last night’s wail of victimhood and racial persecution will swiftly be forgotten are for the birds.
Meghan and Harry are star-dust.
Americans are mesmerised by the pomp, tradition — and scandal — of the British monarchy.
This royal soap is going to make The Crown look like a true story.
WAIL OF VICTIMHOOD
Prince Harry, now known as “Haz”, provides the royal credentials.
Without his regal cachet, Meghan — written out of Suits and with a mere £3million in her purse — would not be rubbing shoulders with American aristocracy.
Nor would the world tune in to watch as she poured out her heart to the real Queen of America, billionaire Oprah Winfrey.
Thanks entirely to Harry’s royal blood, the couple’s fortunes have ballooned with Netflix and Spotify contracts worth tens of millions of dollars.
Meghan is now free to tell “her truth” — a story nobody would pay to hear but for her HRH title.
Her contacts book is packed with the most powerful wheelers and dealers, lawyers and publicists on the American political and showbiz circuit.
Every move since the couple were engaged has been logged, sifted and scripted.
Where there’s muck, there’s brass.
And the celebrity vultures have struck gold with a couple ready to tell all.
This signals danger for the House of Windsor.
Her Majesty the Queen, the most famous person on the planet, is universally loved and admired.
But she is 95 next month and nobody lives for ever.
BULLYING ALLEGATIONS
The age of deference, already under strain, will vanish with her passing.
She is a hard act for Charles and Camilla to follow.
The Royal Family is a bottomless ocean of saleable human stories — some even more salacious than the half-truths that turned The Crown into a global money machine.
Prince Haz and Duchess Meghan can mine this rich seam for ever if they wish.
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Lord Nige
THOSE of us who voted for Brexit – and growing numbers who did not – have Nigel Farage to thank for giving us the chance to decide one way or the other in 2016.
Without his high-octane oratory and sensational EU parliamentary victories, there would never have been a referendum.
It is a tragedy that, as he prepares to quit political life, this triumph is his only reward.
If Boris believes, as he must, that Britain is better off out, he should reward the man who made it possible with a well-earned peerage . . . Lord Nigel of the White Cliffs of Dover.
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