Meghan Markle Was Planning a Career Change Before She Met Prince Harry, Book Reveals
In the past four years, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex has experienced a total transformation in her life. The former actor was living a nice life in Toronto where she was filming her hit series Suits. During the show’s hiatus, she volunteered as an activist and humanitarian while enjoying an active social life.
Then the duchess met Prince Harry and her entire life was transformed. When news of the royal couple’s relationship hit the press, Meghan was thrust onto the global stage. Within a year, she had given up her entire life, moved from Toronto to the U.K., shuttered her social media accounts, and her lifestyle blog, The Tig.
It turns out, Meghan and her team were switching gears and carving out a new career path for her even before she met the prince.
Meghan Markle gave up her life for the British royal family
When Prince Harry and Meghan decided to get married, they had high hopes for what they could do within the royal family. The prince had grown up in The Firm and saw his union with Meghan as an opportunity for them to push the royal family into the 21st century.
Unfortunately, things didn’t exactly pan out as they’d hoped. Instead of taking the reigns of their life, the Sussexes reportedly felt stifled and looked over. Their hope for change was stamped out by the status quo of the royal family as well as royal rules and traditions. In the end, the felt they had no choice but to leave.
“I gave up my entire life for this family,” Meghan reportedly said according to royal reporters Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand’s book Finding Freedom via The Times. “I was willing to do whatever it takes. But here we are. It’s very sad.”
Meghan Markle is massively influential
Despite Megxit and the fact that the Sussexes have now found a permanent home in Santa Barbara, Meghan, in particular, is extremly influential. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, she has made headlines speaking out for Black Lives Matter, using her platform to speak about voting and much more. “The Markle Sparkle is the kind of marketing you cannot buy,” Town & Country reports. Fashion journalist Elizabeth Holmes explained,
Obviously anybody would give them anything, but I think they’re going to be really careful. I think that Meghan’s power as a dresser will continue. There are so few people—even among celebrities—that have the kind of economic power to move merchandise the way that royal women do, so I hope and I think she’ll choose carefully.
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Meghan Markle was planning a career change before meeting Prince Harry
Before marrying the prince, Meghan built her career on having control of her own narrative and using her voice as a mixed-race woman. As Suits began to wind down, Meghan and her team had plans to pivot her career.
According to the new book Finding Freedom, Meghan’s “passion project” The Tig, had become huge. The book reveals that Meghan was looking to “develop her career as a lifestyle influencer” based on The Tig. Meghan and her team hired Jonathan Shalit to begin building her lifestyle empire. Finding Freedom reads via Cosmopolitan U.K.,
Jonathan’s interest in the American actress for some kind of food, travel and culture show stemmed from The Tig, which was exactly the kind of future Meghan hoped would blossom out of her website.
We wonder if lifestyle will be a component of the Sussexes Archewell brand.
