I think her true motivation fot these interviews is spite. She thought being a Royal would fast track her to the A List. When the reality sunk in, she fled to Hollywood (via Canada so that she could be seen to be serving the Commonwealth). She thought she could have it all. Be a Hollywood A lister, whilst remaining a Royal. Fortunately BP were having none of it! Hence the narcissistic rage
i agree. I think someone on this thread or elsewhere said “Meghan will always be known as the woman who had it all but threw it away”.
she’d gone from acomfortabley well off, unknown actress to internationally known person. She was given a flashy wedding and stately homes to live in, private jets and suddenly friends with an A lister elite. she got given a fancy title which clearly is something she values. Instead of having to compete for limited roles for older women in acting, all she had to do was dress in designer clothes and turn up to some ribbon cuttings. Maybe this was boring and awful but she probably could’ve made a case to scale these down given her and Harry aren’t that important anymore, and given that they had kids straight away (Extended Mat leave would’ve given her time away).
the press scrutinised her a lot more, but that’s just how it is when someone is that high profile. She could’ve ignored them, carried on like Camilla and Kate until people got bored of it.
It was literally a charmed existence, all because of who she married, but it wasnt enough.
meghan wanted to control the narrative about her. She wanted to be the star of the show (which simply just isn’t what the royal family is about). She wanted to be seen as a great humanitarian without actually having to do her humanitarian work. She thought she could employ some fancy PR to make everyone love her, but again that’s not how Britain or the royal family work. The platitudes and sound bites she regurgitates in the US don’t fly in the U.K. She was expected to be a compliant cog in the well
Oiled machine that was the royal family and she just couldn’t accept that. So she threw a life of comfort and luxury away.
she was obvs hoping for the best of both worlds in the US; keeping the titles, the funding and the influence that came from being in the RF but combined with the PR and sound bites that she thinks will work better in the US. She wants to make herself a star over the pond because it didn’t work in the U.K. and she wasnt allowed to.
problem is, MM is NOT a star. She doesn’t have the beauty, talent or charisma that the big “stars” have. She will never have that, she has never had that. It’s why she couldn’t become one on her own merit.
she’s due to have a very hard landing when she realises the gamble she made won’t pay off. She’ll be a nobody in the US and a person non grata in the U.K. Harry and her children are just collateral damage in her quest to be humanity’s next star.