Meghan Markle made her name as an actress, campaigner and blogger before marrying Prince Harry in May 2018 and becoming the Duchess of Sussex.

When she became a member of the Royal Family, she gave up her acting career – and immersed herself in the life of a working royal, using the platform to highlight the charities and causes close to her heart.

She became a mother in May 2019 but within a year she and Prince Harry had stepped away as working members of the Royal Family and started a new life in North America.

She is now living in California and expecting her second child.

During these three years, she’s been pretty active with her Royal duties – but the public eye has been very much focused on her behaviour.
Once, she wore dark nail polish. How very unduchess-like! Even worse, she also closed the door of her own car. That’s unheard- of!
The list of occasions that Meghan Markle has broken Royal protocol goes on and on. Most of them are related to her bold fashion choices. For example, she wore black from head to toe when not in mourning. She also wore no stockings underneath a skirt. Bare legs in public! It doesn’t matter if it was the middle of August… this is certainly something that the Queen strongly disapproved of.
The problem is that the list is getting longer…
While often described as a Royal rule-breaker, she migrated to a life free from Royal commitments and duties overseas.

But what happened some days ago when she together her husba nd Harry were interviewed by Oprah Winfrey, one of the most appreciate American talk show host? The interview was hold  in  Southern California, where they now live and where Meghan released shocking public confessions.

She said her life as a British royal was so isolating and lonely at one point she “didn’t want to be alive anymore” — a stunning admission likely to rock the foundations of the centuries-old institution. Moreover, she confessed that a senior royal had “concerns and conversations” about how dark her son Archie’s skin would be.

Queen Elizabeth II turns the tables and breaks the silence with a press release officer that leaves everyone speechless. As a great woman of power and a fine strategist (who in her long years of regency has seen all sorts of things), Queen Elizabeth was not caught unprepared and defined herself “saddened” by the suffering told by the two and the difficulties that Meghan had to deal, especially with regard to the “racial issues” brought to light by the Dukes of Sussex.

Buckingham Palace, therefore, decided to immediately take a precise position, thus avoiding remaining in the shadows after the strong statements of Meghan and Harry.

The situation is getting complicated if we also consider the delicate health conditions of Prince Philip, close to 100 years old and in hospital due to heart surgery. Many believe that Meghan goes down hard in the interview, but the Duchess seems to have suffered a lot and she has decided not to hide it anymore.

To tell her truth, she chose the dangerous mechanisms of television, aware of the boomerang effect that could come. Mayb

e she is lying to make herself a victim or she is using the race card to gain sympathy.

What is sure is that soon Twitterati empathised with the former royal couple and their interview.

What we can understand is that Meghan like Diana, married into a family that did not understand her and believed she would conform, without complaint, to royal customs and protocol. As with Diana, proved unable or unwilling to tow the family line, and like Diana, Meghan found herself hounded by the tabloids, the same intrusive media that has forced her to move and live a normal life away from England.

Anyway, Prince William has declared:” “We’re very much not a racist family”, and to be honest: We believe him!

 

-Giulia Franchini,

-Davide Palumbo.