It’s time to come together, to stand strong, to find our voices, to speak our truths, and to brace for impact, because Meghan Markle may be about to go nuclear.
Yes, those expensive travertine tiles are shifting tectonically in Montecito. Apparently, Harry is growing increasingly unhappy.
This week, he did the unthinkable: he traveled to New York City and participated in events related to the United Nations General Assembly, dinners, galas and symposiums, all without Meghan.
Our duchess, some have said, is too ill to join in, which must be frustrating for a woman who thrives under any spotlight, who accepts any award, no matter how insignificant, even if she has to stop by a rental car office to pick it up.
But it could also be true that Harry, whom his own mother called “dumb,” is finally coming around.
He seems to be slipping away, aware that the Hollywood experiment, in fact, Meghan’s experiment — has failed.
And who would blame him?
It’s time to come together, to rally, to find our voices, to speak our truths and to brace for impact, because Meghan Markle could be about to go nuclear. It seems more and more that Harry is not happy.
He seems to be trying to escape, aware that the Hollywood experiment (actually, Meghan’s experiment) has failed. And who could blame him?
The Hollywood Reporter earlier this month published a scathing article declaring that the industry was “abandoning Harry and Meghan,” fed up not so much with a perceived lack of talent or work ethic, but with the duchess’s alleged rudeness.
He also painted a brutal portrait of life in Sussex.
“Absolutely ruthless,” a source said of Meghan. “She marches around like a dictator in high heels, raging and giving orders. I’ve seen her make grown men cry.”
What could he be ranting about? Stale preserves? Calls to Oprah that end up in voicemail?
The report came weeks after the Sussexes lost their new chief of staff, Josh Kettler, who resigned in August after just three months on the job, becoming one of at least 18 staff to have left the couple’s employ since 2018.
Meghan is currently represented by WME’s Ari Emanuel, a man so powerful he could have surely gotten The Hollywood Reporter’s story shut down. Sadly, he didn’t.
Two weeks ago, Emanuel also hosted a big Emmys party. Meghan Markle was nowhere to be seen.
A woman whose only reason for being is fame has been absent from the Oscars and the Met Gala. Nor has she been at the state dinners at the White House, the Olympic Games or in the front row at Paris Fashion Week.
Of course, a source close to Harry and Meghan has denied The Hollywood Reporter’s claims. But the outlet’s co-editor-in-chief, Maer Roshan, told Access Hollywood this week that “our reporter spoke to a very high-level source who works for the couple and said, ‘Everyone is scared of Meghan.'”
The call is coming from inside the house!
Meanwhile, Harry’s 40th birthday, spent last week in Montecito, was said to have been a rather lonely one.
His few remaining friends are still in Britain. He doesn’t fit into Meghan’s showbiz world, nor does he seem to care.
She had reportedly planned to celebrate her milestone birthday, which has surely prompted some deep existential soul-searching, with a getaway with some friends (not Meghan).
The saddest detail: Harry is said to count his personal bodyguard, David Langdown, among his closest friends.
“He and Harry are very close, very bonded,” a source told the Mail. “Like thieves.”
Harry’s 40th birthday, which he spent last week in Montecito, is said to have been a lonely one.
Langdown’s services command a generous salary. If Harry’s best friend in America is on the payroll, how daunting.
And then there are the ongoing struggles of Brand Sussex’s trading companies.
Meghan’s American Riviera garden, clumsily launched amid a global frenzy over Kate Middleton’s ill health in March, has yet to produce more than a few jars of jam and a smattering of Instagram posts from the likes of Mindy Kaling and Chrissy Teigen.
Meghan’s ARO trademark application, which should surely have been in the approval process before it was launched, was denied a few weeks ago.
All of this lends further credence to the belief that all is not well in Montecito.
At the same time, Netflix is said to have no plans to renew the couple’s $100 million deal. Harry’s 2023 documentary Invictus was one of the biggest flops of the year for the streaming platform.
Lemonada revived Meghan’s ‘Archetypes’ podcast in February, but new episodes aren’t expected until sometime in 2025.
These professional embarrassments further erode the damage done by the Oprah interview, Spare and Harry and Meghan’s constant rebranding.
Namely: When it was announced that Harry would receive ESPN’s Pat Tillman Award (named after the NFL star who died while serving in Afghanistan), Tillman’s mother was outraged.
“I’m shocked,” Mary Tillman told the Mail. “He has publicly disrespected his family, he has fled from serving his country as a royal… He is not worthy of this award.”
This constellation of loss is undeniable. What other avenue of escape is left for Harry — a grown man whose only real job has been as a royal — than to seek reconciliation and some way back to his old life?
And it seems that the relationship between Harry and King Charles is moving, albeit slowly, towards healing.
For the first time in three years, the Palace posted a “happy birthday” wish for Harry on his 40th birthday, a wish reposted by William and Kate’s official account.
Were the Welsh encouraged to do so? Perhaps.
After all, William and Harry have reportedly not spoken in more than two years, despite both attending the funeral of his maternal uncle, Lord Fellowes, in late August.
Still, that gesture from William and Kate is quite revealing.
Harry, meanwhile, reportedly dismantled an “update” planned for the paperback edition of “Spare,” due out next month. Instead of new surprises, there was an unusual display of restraint.
Now, will the world soon forget Harry’s frozen penis, cured with his mother’s favorite face cream? Of course not! Nor will the dog bowl, the broken collar, and South Park’s “Worldwide Privacy Tour” ever be erased from the collective consciousness.
But it’s a tentative sign that Harry hopes to leave it all in the rearview mirror… and the dumpster.
But if the prodigal prince really does want to return to the royal fold, if the transatlantic emotional ice melts and Harry is welcomed home (even if only for a part-time job), where does that leave his wife?
It seems that the relationship between Harry and King Charles is slowly on the mend. But where does that leave Meghan?
It is clear that Meghan does not want to return to the UK and would not be welcome there either.
There is no escaping, then, that a reconciliation, in any form, would in some ways be Harry’s admission that his true life and purpose are in his homeland, within the royal family, who are surely not the monsters Meghan has claimed.
Otherwise, how? could That Harry returned to a family and lifestyle that Meghan says nearly drove her to suicide? That leaving for America was Harry’s way of saving her?
And what would it be like? she Did you ever present your husband’s actual reconciliation as anything more than a repudiation of Mexgit, a humiliation?
This is really dangerous territory.
We all know how Meghan handles criticism. She’s not a woman who likes to lose.
After all, she is often presented as Diana 2.0: a rebel destined to remake, if not destroy, royalty.
She knows where all the bodies are buried, and if she’s scorned, she could exhume them quickly.
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