A royal expert has suggested
Meghan Markle might really have one eye on the White House.
Meghan Markle has been
rumoured to have had her sights set on the White House for some time,
with talk of her ambition to become America’s first woman president dating back
to a “secret” meeting with Hillary Clinton at Frogmore Cottage in 2019.
And now, again, the Duchess of
Sussex’s political ambitions are in the spotlight, with royal expert Russell
Myers saying that Meghan is making “all the right noises” to get into politics.
Speaking on ITV’s Lorraine
programme, Russell said: “Prince Harry and Megan have moved over to the
United States.
“They’ve got their financial
freedom. They’ve got their essential freedom from the royal family so they can
speak on political issues.
“And certainly, Megan was
speaking to Vogue at the weekend, talking about Roe versus Wade, a very, very controversial
abortion law that has been repealed in the US.”
As part of her discussion
with Gloria Steinem in this month’s Vogue magazine, Meghan promised to
take a trip to Washington DC with the legendary women’s rights campaigner to
advocate for the Equal Rights Amendment.
“Being home, seeing what’s
happening in our country and feeling energized and motivated, if this is the
type of legislation that we need to be pushed through, then this is a moment that I
am absolutely going to show up for,” Meghan said. “Not just because it’s what
we need as women, but it’s what we need as people”.
Russell, Royal Editor of the
Daily Mirror, thinks that the Duchess’s increasingly political rhetoric is
further proof that she has “political ambitions” and that she was on the right
course to realize them: “She’s certainly rubbing shoulders with the right
people and making the right noises,” he said.
