And now Meghan Markle aims for a career in politics (dreaming of the White House)
The former actress "would like to use the hype surrounding her interview with Oprah to launch a political career." For this reason, she tells herself, she never wanted to renounce American citizenship. If her dream is to become the first female president, she could start in California
Anyone who has known Meghan Markle, who is part of her supporters or her detractors, always uses the same adjective to define her: "determined". The 38-year-old, who was raised in Los Angeles by an African-American yoga teacher mother and dad as lighting director on the General Hospital set, has always been. Since the days of Immaculate Heart High School, with a Catholic imprint, for girls only. Meghan attends theater workshops during her school years, she volunteers, she is always the first in class to raise her hand. She even sent a letter to the then First Lady Hilary Clinton to tell her that the slogan of a detergent ad is not good, she is sexist. "All the women of America fight against the dirt and grease of the pots", the phrase she needs to change.
Then when she gets it into her head that she wants to be an actress, she tries them all. The expensive acting school, the acquaintances of father Thomas, meanwhile finished in Mexico, a (first) producer husband and the ambition to reach the front rows of Hollywood. The most important role of her gets him in Suits, a TV series shot in Canada. And even in Toronto, Meghan knows how to get into the right turns. Like Jessica Mulroney, the stylist who also "dresses" the wife of the Canadian Prime Minister, Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau. Meanwhile, you do not forget neither the social nor the humanitarian commitment. "She wants to make a difference," says those who know her well.
And it is she in London that she, on a blind date, she meets Prince Harry. The rest is history. Whether you want to believe the interview just released with Oprah or not, it was clear from the outset that real life immediately seemed "tight" to Meghan. Too many obligations to comply, protocols to be endured, from the second row of the Buckignham Palace balcony. And now that Meghan the American has returned to her homeland, a theory that has never completely died out emerges. It is completely incompatible with royal family life. Because if Harry has never voted for him in his life, Meghan has always had an ambition that is not even so hidden: politics. From London she knew how to get her digs at Donal Trump, and once the Windsors were "abandoned" she underwent to set the record straight, in another historical interview, talking about elections - with Harry at her side - in TV.
Moreover, already in November 2019 in unsuspected times, the British bookmakers were convinced that the Duchess had "ambitious and long-term plans". And a documentary entitled Meghan for president, signed by Nick Bullen, had prophesied it: the duchess, said Bullen, "is preparing to move permanently to the US to throw herself into politics at home."
Voices that, after the revelations to Oprah, return. The hypothesis was put forward by the Daily Mail which cites a source close to former premier Tony Blair, with strong ties to Washington, according to which Meghan "is networking among the older Democrats with the aim of building a campaign and raising funds for the race for the presidency of the United States ». The Duchess, the British tabloid still writes, would like to use the hype around her interview with Oprah to launch a political career that could lead her to the White House. Of course, this is not a simple undertaking. Also because Meghan is not a fool and in her dream of becoming the first woman president she cannot ignore Kamala Harris, current vice president of Biden. Because if Biden will be 82 in 2024, Kamala will be just 60. And, of course, it's not just a question of age.
Even her biographer, Omid Scobie, argues that the idea of a future in politics has always fascinated Meghan. And last year, a friend of the Duchess told Vanity Fair America that one of the reasons the 39-year-old didn't want to give up her American citizenship when she married Harry was to be able to keep the possibility of entering politics open. United States. A royal, of course, could not have done that. But now Harry and Meghan aren't anymore. And if the White House remains the dream, Meg she at the moment she could "settle" for California, where she lives. The latest releases, moreover, have made her very sympathetic to the West Cost Democrats.
