Meghan Markle has ‘behaved with discretion and dignity’ – but still has ‘potential weapon’
Meghan Markle has "behaved with discretion and dignity" in the years since her bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, but still has a "potential weapon" in her back pocket
Since stepping back as senior royals, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been candid in interviews and their Netflix series about the challenges they say they’ve faced. With Harry’s explosive memoir ‘Spare’ out, speculation swirls if Meghan will write her own book.
In 2022, Meghan hinted at a journal from her royal days, fuelling rumours of another tell-all. However, a top royal commentator told OK! that while Meghan has moved on, she keeps the option “in her back pocket”. Jennie Bond, ex-BBC royal correspondent, shared: “It’s more than two years since she gave that interview, and she has steered clear of controversy about the Royal Family since.”
“Obviously the journal she mentioned will remain a potential weapon in her back pocket if she ever feels the need to seek some sort of revenge. But she has behaved with discretion and dignity ever since Oprah and the documentary series.”
“I think she is looking forwards, not backwards and is moving on with her life. So I don’t think we should be raising false alarms about any potential memoir.”
Roya Nikkhah, the Sunday Times Royal Editor, offered a sharp analysis of Meghan’s “revealing” comments on True Royalty TV’s The Royal Beat. She remarked: “The thinly veiled threats that came in [in the interview]… I think [she] probably hopes it does [feel threatening] to the Royal Family… [But] I think there’s a lot of eye-rolling, going, ‘We’re used to this by now’… [But] that phrase, ‘I have a lot to say until I don’t’ and, ‘I’ve never signed anything that restricts me from talking’… there was a very strong inference there.”
Nikkhah continued, highlighting Meghan’s hints at future revelations: “And, of course, the reminder that she keeps a journal, and [her] revelation that, ‘When we came back to Windsor, to Frogmore Cottage for the Jubilee, I rediscovered my journal that I’d left there’ – I was astonished to discover that she had left a highly private diary behind in Windsor, rather than taking it back.”
She added, “She’s mentioned a couple of times in the last year or two that she kept a journal, and I think there is a very strong inference that Meghan could write her own memoir.”
