Meghan Markle has a potential “weapon in her back pocket” for possible “revenge” against the royal family, according to experts. It’s been over four years since Meghan and Prince Harry stepped down as senior royals, and they haven’t shied away from sharing their experiences within the monarchy, including their bombshell Oprah Winfrey interview and their revealing Netflix series.
Following the release of Harry’s tell-all book Spare last year, which took aim at the royal institution and figures like his father, King Charles, and brother, Prince William, Meghan has kept a low profile regarding her in-laws.
But whispers are circulating that Meghan might follow in Harry’s footsteps with a memoir of her own, especially after she hinted in an interview two years ago about keeping a journal during her royal duties. BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond has suggested that this journal could serve as Meghan’s “weapon.”
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Bond remarked: “It’s more than two years since she gave that interview, and she has steered clear of controversy about the royal family since,” reports the Express.
She added, “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.”
She went on, “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.”
Last year, Meghan opened up to The Cut about her life in California post-royal exit and her podcast Archetypes, revealing that she didn’t have to sign an NDA upon leaving the Firm and recalling the discovery of a journal at Frogmore Cottage: “You go back, and you open drawers, and you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh. This is what I was writing in my journal there.”
Following Meghan’s disclosures, Sunday Times royal editor Roya Nikkhah commented on True Royalty TV’s The Royal Beat, and interpreted some of Meghan’s words as veiled threats: “The thinly veiled threats that came in [Meghan’s interview with The Cut] …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.”
She added, “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’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.”
