Meghan Markle has “behaved with discretion and dignity” in the years since her bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, but still has a “potential weapon” in her back pocket
Since stepping back as senior royals, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been candid in interviews and their Netflix series about the challenges they say they’ve faced. With Harry’s explosive memoir ‘Spare’ out, speculation swirls if Meghan will write her own book.
In 2022, Meghan hinted at a journal from her royal days, fuelling rumours of another tell-all. However, a top royal commentator told OK! that while Meghan has moved on, she keeps the option “in her back pocket”. Jennie Bond, ex-BBC royal correspondent, shared: “It’s more than two years since she gave that interview, and she has steered clear of controversy about the Royal Family since.”
“Obviously the journal she mentioned will remain a potential weapon in her back pocket if she ever feels the need to seek some sort of revenge. But she has behaved with discretion and dignity ever since Oprah and the documentary series.”
“I think she is looking forwards, not backwards and is moving on with her life. So I don’t think we should be raising false alarms about any potential memoir.”
Roya Nikkhah, the Sunday Times Royal Editor, offered a sharp analysis of Meghan’s “revealing” comments on True Royalty TV’s The Royal Beat. She remarked: “The thinly veiled threats that came in [in the interview]… I think [she] probably hopes it does [feel threatening] to the Royal Family… [But] I think there’s a lot of eye-rolling, going, ‘We’re used to this by now’… [But] that phrase, ‘I have a lot to say until I don’t’ and, ‘I’ve never signed anything that restricts me from talking’… there was a very strong inference there.”
Nikkhah continued, highlighting Meghan’s hints at future revelations: “And, of course, the reminder that she keeps a journal, and [her] revelation that, ‘When we came back to Windsor, to Frogmore Cottage for the Jubilee, I rediscovered my journal that I’d left there’ – I was astonished to discover that she had left a highly private diary behind in Windsor, rather than taking it back.”
She added, “She’s mentioned a couple of times in the last year or two that she kept a journal, and I think there is a very strong inference that Meghan could write her own memoir.”
Meghan recently shared her experiences with bullying during an engagement with Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara, where she supported their new digital-wellness initiative, Social Media U, as reported by a charity representative.
Girls Inc, an organisation dedicated to empowering young girls, has joined forces with the #HalfTheStory campaign, which works on improving young people’s relationship with technology, to launch a remarkable new programme. Larissa May, the brains behind #HalfTheStory, spilled the details to Vanity Fair about Meghan Markle’s involvement and her candid discussions about being bullied.
Larissa recounted: “We did an activity where we talked through a bunch of different scenarios, and Meghan talked about being one of the most bullied people in the world. We had girls wave these little emoji signs and talk about how each one of these scenarios would have impacted them emotionally.”
She further disclosed: “We talked about what it really means to grow up in this digital age,” highlighting the Social Media U curriculum’s goal to inspire teens to interact without the crutch of screens while also embracing technology in a creative and positive manner. This curriculum was given a trial run by the Duchess herself.
The innovative curriculum has managed to secure financial support from Meghan and Prince Harry’s Archewell Foundation, in addition to backing from the Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation and Melissa French Gates’s Pivotal Ventures.
Meghan has previously opened up about her struggles with online bullying, recounting at the SXSW festival in March how she faced “hateful” messages while carrying Archie and Lilibet. Her appearance in Texas was meant for discussing themes around “breaking barriers and challenging stereotypes”.
During her candid speech, she discussed her experiences on social media, revealing that the most severe online abuse occurred during her pregnancies. She opened up about the impact, saying, “I keep my distance from it right now for my wellbeing but the bulk of the bullying and abuse I was experiencing in social media and online was when I was pregnant with Archie and with Lili, and with a newborn, with each of them.”
She expressed the difficulty in understanding such hatefulness: “You just think about that and to wrap your head about why people would be so hateful. It’s not catty it’s cruel. Why you would do that when you’re pregnant or as a mom it’s such a tender and sacred time.”
Furthermore, she told how she coped: “You could succumb to it, or nearly succumb to how painful that is. Or maybe because I was pregnant that mammalian instinct just kicks in to do everything you can to protect your child and as a result protect yourself too.”
“I keep my distance from it right now for my wellbeing but the bulk of the bullying and abuse I was experiencing in social media and online was when I was pregnant with Archie and with Lili, and with a newborn, with each of them,”.
“You just think about that and to wrap your head about why people would be so hateful. It’s not catty it’s cruel. Why you would do that when you’re pregnant or as a mom it’s such a tender and sacred time.”
“You could succumb to it, or nearly succumb to how painful that is. Or maybe because I was pregnant that mammalian instinct just kicks in to do everything you can to protect your child and as a result protect yourself too.”