Meghan wants a political say in the USA
As a Senior Royal, Meghan was committed to political neutrality. But that's the end of it now. So the Duchess is now using her vote to draw attention to women's suffrage. The message can also be understood as a swipe at the British.
Duchess Meghan has spoken publicly about the upcoming presidential election in the United States. A step that would never have allowed her as a Senior Royal. Members of the British royal family are obliged to be politically neutral. Since shedding their royal status in April of this year, Meghan and Prince Harry have been enjoying newfound freedoms - and savoring them.
Meghan told the women's magazine "Marie Claire" that she would definitely make use of her right to vote in the USA. She said, "I know what it's like to have a voice and also what it's like to feel voiceless." The 39-year-old is well aware "that so many men and women have risked their lives so that we can be heard". So, in her opinion, all those who are entitled to vote should also make themselves heard.
Can you interpret Meghan's "voicelessness" as a small swipe at her time in Great Britain? After all, it was not easy for the 39-year-old as Senior Royal of the British royal family from the start. The British tabloids sometimes attacked her in a racist and sexist manner. In the new book "Finding Freedom", the life of Prince Harry and his wife is also examined in more detail. Good friends of the couple describe how broken their relationship with the royal court should be. Meghan left the country "emotionally hurt and exhausted," the book says. Critics complain that Harry and Meghan's disclosure book is an indirect settlement with the British.
"Rain consists of individual drops"
To emphasize her cause in "Marie Claire", Meghan quoted New Zealand suffragette Kate Sheppard (1848-1934): "Don't think your individual voice doesn't matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched soil is made up of." single drop. " It is one of her favorite quotes, said the 39-year-old, "and one that my husband and I have often referred to".
Although the American did not tell the magazine who she would vote for on November 3rd, Meghan is an avowed democrat and feminist. In the past, she has also spoken out openly against President Donald Trump. "Of course Trump is divisive - just think of female voters," she said on the Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. She called the Republican "misogynist".
In addition to the Duchess of Sussex, 99 other influential women spoke to "Marie Claire" about why they will vote in the November 2020 election - including former first lady Michelle Obama, talk show legend Oprah Winfrey, and Congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and ex-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
