Princess Diana’s former biographer Andrew Morton says Queen Elizabeth told Meghan Markle was allowed to continue acting, even after she became a royal. Here’s what he has to say.
According to Andrew Morton, Meghan was given a choice on whether or not she wanted to continue her acting career, but apparently decided against it.
What’s more, Queen Elizabeth also gave Harry and Meghan free reign as far as what they wanted to do in their roles as full-time working royals. There were no restrictions, as Meghan would like the world to think there was.
Queen Elizabeth Told Meghan Markle That She Could Continue Acting As A Royal
The Queen gave them the opportunity to go wherever they pleased,” Andrew Morton told the Royally Obsessed podcast. “They were given a degree of latitude.
They were told,’ Here are your first-class tickets, pick which country you want to go to, we’re going to make you youth ambassadors for the Commonwealth.’”
“They did say to Meghan, ‘If you don’t want to embrace royal duties full time please be our guest and continue your acting career.’ Those opportunities were open to her.”
Yet, in their televised interview with the BBC shortly after their engagement in November of 2017, Meghan said that she didn’t see the change as giving anything up.
“I don’t see it as giving anything up,” Markle explained at the time. “I just see it as a change. It’s a new chapter. And keep in mind, I’ve been working on my show for seven years. We were very fortunate to have that sort of longevity on a series. For me, once we hit the 100 episode marker, I thought, ‘I have ticked this box and I feel really proud of the work we’ve done and now it’s time to work as a team with [Harry].'”
But in her interview with Oprah, Meghan said she had given up “my career, my life, everything because I love him.”
Yet, Andrew Morton doesn’t seem to believe most of what Meghan told Oprah. He says this despite the fact that the Duchess of Sussex told Oprah Winfrey in her explosive interview that she felt ‘trapped’ at times and rarely left her house while she was still a full-time working royal, even though she’s become one of the most famous women in the world.
“When I was watching the [Oprah] interview, I was ticking off, ‘yes, sense of isolation,’ ‘yes, sense of desperation,’ exactly what Diana was saying to me,” said Morton. “But then again, friends of mine said they’ve seen Meghan walking from Whole Foods supermarket on Kensington High Street with bags of food back to Kensington Palace.”
“It didn’t seem too much like a prison,” he continued. “Other friends have seen her out and about with friends at restaurants. So she seems, to me, to have led a normal life.”
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