Did Meghan Markle ever plan to give up her Californian lifestyle and stay in Britain?

FINDING fame and fortune in Hollywood has been Meghan Markle’s burning ambition for over 30 years.

Ever since her father — a film lighting designer — took his young daughter to a studio she has yearned for stardom.


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The question is whether Meghan Markle ever intended to stay in Britain

Did Meghan honestly want to sacrifice her Californian lifestyle and serve as a member of the Royal Family in rainy Britain?

Repeatedly, Tinseltown rejected her. Tonight’s two-hour appearance on US TV and its replay to millions worldwide is her revenge.

Not only against some of the studio bosses who dismissed her as another second-rate actress, but also against everyone else who failed to appreciate her immense talents.

Fixed firmly in her sights tonight is the Queen, the Royal Family and Britain’s establishment.

Like everyone else in Meghan’s self-centred world, their sin is to have rejected her wishes.

Like a Hollywood diva, she has cursed those who don’t understand that being the Duchess of Sussex was not enough.

Walking in procession behind the other royals, especially Prince William and Kate, was demeaning.

‘DESTROY HER DESTINY’

She wanted to be the Queen of England. All those Britons who stood in her way are accused of sexism and racism.

The question is whether Meghan ever intended to stay in Britain.

Did she honestly want to sacrifice her Californian lifestyle and serve as a member of the Royal Family in rainy Britain?

Or did she, as I believe, always intend to use the marriage and title as a stepping stone to further her ambitions in the sunshine?

Convinced of her own greatness, Meghan thinks she has, for years, been the victim of plots to destroy her destiny.

While others shone in leading roles, Meghan had bit parts.



Meghan was written out from her role in Suits in 2016

Meghan and Harry will spill all to TV host Oprah Winfrey

Until five years ago, her most recognised credit was featuring in a Canadian TV soap called Suits.

After she was written out in 2016, her career hit a brick wall. Adrift but undaunted in Toronto, she orchestrated a new start.

Brilliantly, she invented a new script. Intelligent, attractive and ruthless, Meghan set her sights on marrying higher. And she headed to London.

“Who are the single men?” she asked an Englishwoman. Among the cast list was Prince Harry.

Their meeting in a London club was described as “a blind date”. But Meghan knew exactly who she was meeting — and how much the relationship could work for her.

Alone and miserable, Harry, then 31, was a forlorn character searching for love.

‘A DENT IN HIS REPUTATION’

A series of unhappy relationships and public relations disasters had put a dent in his reputation.

But his military service in Afghanistan and his creation of the Invictus Games for disabled military servicemen had added supporters to those who still recalled the enchanting small boy walking behind his mother’s coffin.

Harry fell head over heels in love. We don’t know if the actress felt the same.  

One truth is certain: Harry’s closest relations including William and Prince Charles were wary whether the Hollywood divorcee would make the necessary sacrifices to serve as a loyal member of the Royal Family.

Insiders heard how she had ended her two-year marriage to Trevor Engelson.

Without forewarning, Engelson opened a letter sent from Toronto to Los Angeles containing her wedding and engagement rings. Outraged, he told a friend: “I feel like I was a piece of something stuck to the bottom of her shoe.”



The royal family genuinely embraced Meghan when she first joined the Royal Family

Meghan’s demand to wear a particular tiara on her wedding day had been vetoed by Buckingham Palace

On Meghan and Harry’s brilliant wedding day in Windsor in 2018, the Royal Family genuinely embraced the bride and her mother. The waiting crowds cheered themselves hoarse. Only a few insiders could have imagined the horrors which have followed.

“What Meghan wants, Meghan gets,” Harry famously raged during the preparations. Meghan’s demand to wear a particular tiara had been vetoed by Buckingham Palace.

Even on that sunlit day, no doubt she fumed against the Royal Family.

Like a consummate actress, she concealed her anger and smiled. Over the following months, stories emerged of Meghan’s tearful staff complaining of bullying and worse. Her spokespeople vigorously denied the allegations.

Her decision to move from Kensington Palace to Frogmore Cottage in Windsor hinted at the breach with the Royal Family. Insiders could not believe that a Californian would want to live for long under the Heathrow flight path.

Flying on a private jet to New York for a £350,000 baby shower party with US celebrities confirmed her contempt for modesty.

‘HYPOCRISY’

Refusing to show son Archie’s face to the camera after his birth and demanding privacy, while constantly speaking to US journalists, confirmed her hypocrisy.

Friends’ criticisms of the Queen, prompted it seemed by Meghan, were outrightly rude. Insiders know there is more scandal to emerge.

One year later, I considered writing the truth about Meghan. I knew the Royal Family and their staff had become alarmed that she threatened to become an agent of destruction.

The fragile House of Windsor feared that Meghan’s refusal to discard Hollywood’s celebrity culture and adopt the conservative traditions embraced by the palaces would doom her new marriage and jeopardise the monarchy. Those suspicions were dismissed as racist.

That reaction was not entirely unjustified. In Britain and in America, Meghan is remarkably popular, especially among women.

Her supporters admire her ambition and outspokenness. Her critics are usually white.

Those who foresee that she and Harry are determined to plunge the country into a similar crisis as the abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936 are dismissed as prejudiced.

Yet seeing Meghan and Harry on the lawn with Oprah Winfrey, the image is strikingly similar to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor after 1937.

The ex-king’s relationship with US divorcee Wallis Simpson critically damaged the monarchy.

At least the Windsors were aware of the problems.

Meghan and Harry clearly do not care about the uproar they are causing. On the contrary, they are clearly eager for a battle.

Buckingham Palace fears that Meghan sees outright warfare as a badge of pride.



Meghan and Harry quit the UK after stepping back from the Royal Family

The couple’s choice to move from Kensington Palace to Frogmore Cottage in Windsor hinted about the breach with the Royal Family

In her selfish manner, she believes that she is entitled to say what she wants to Oprah Winfrey. Those who criticise her inventions are racist and sexist.

Amid the gunfire, many are sad that Harry has been turned against his family. By appearing on US TV tonight, he has sold his soul. The outcome can only be bloody casualties in both camps.

Britain’s monarchy will survive and Meghan won’t be Queen of England. But she clearly dreams that, when the smoke of battle disappears, she might be a US senator or even president.

10 questions we want to hear

Here are ten questions we would like the couple to answer:

Q: Meghan, why did you split from your first husband, film producer Trevor Engelson after just two years of marriage? Your friends were shocked and suggested you put your career first after landing a role filming Suits in Toronto.

Q: Harry, don’t you think it’s odd you’ve never met your father-in-law Thomas? And Meghan why won’t you make it up to him? He is desperate to see his grandson before he dies.



In Britain and in America, Meghan is remarkably popular

Q: Meghan, why did you say in your engagement interview you had never heard of Harry before you met him? Does anyone believe that?

Q: Why were you so surprised at the pressures of being a royal? You knew what happened to Princess Diana and Harry said he told you what to prepare for.

Q: Why did you agree to a lavish wedding watched by the whole world but didn’t want a royal title for Archie? Was it because you never intended to stay in the royal family?

Q: Wasn’t it insensitive to complain about your lot in Africa, Meghan, while surrounded by people living in abject poverty?

Q: Why did you both lecture us on climate change and then take private jets on holidays?

Q: Meghan, why have reports emerged that you bullied Kensington Palace staff and why would anyone make them up?

Q: Harry, how does any of this help to heal the rift with the royal family, particularly your brother William?

Q: How could you bring about all this negative publicity when Prince Philip in hospital?

Bully rap ‘time up’

Too much time has passed for action to be taken regarding bullying claims against Meghan, says an employment rights expert.

Alex Monaco said: “There is a three-month limit for most claims and as this complaint was made in 2018, it seems that deadline has long passed.

“If normal procedures were followed then Meghan, as effective manager of the employees, should have been spoken to at the time.

“After that, it’s up to the human resources department to decide if the allegations are true and if the manager needs to be sent for retraining or even dismissed.”