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Queen ‘told Meghan she could continue her acting career’, claims royal expert
‘Those opportunities were open to her,’ says Andrew Morton
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Your support makes all the difference.The Duchess of Sussex was told by the Queen she had every right to continue her acting career once she stepped away from her royal duties, biographer Andrew Morton has claimed.
Morton, who wrote the bestselling book Diana: Her True Story in 1992, made the claim on the podcast Royally Obsessed and explained that Meghan and the Duke of Sussex were given “the opportunity to go wherever they pleased” after they expressed a desire to step back from their royal roles last year.
“They were given a degree of latitude,” Morton said. “They were told ‘here are your first class tickets, pick which country you want to go to, we’re going to make you youth ambassadors for the Commonwealth’.”
Morton continued: “In fairness to the royal family, in fairness to the Queen, she did give them that opportunity to go wherever they pleased.
“And also, they did say to Meghan if you don’t want to embrace royal duties full time please be our guest and continue your acting career. Those opportunities were open to her.”
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Harry and Meghan announced their decision to step back from their roles in the royal family in January 2020.
Meghan left her role on the legal drama Suits shortly after it was announced that she and Harry were dating in 2016 and has not expressed any public interest to resume acting since.
Now, Morton believes neither Harry nor Meghan gave it enough thought when they chose to no longer be full-time working royals.
“I think neither of them gave it the thought they should have done,” he said on the podcast before going on to reference an alleged comment that the Duke of Cambridge made to his brother about taking things slowly with Meghan when they first started dating.
“I think that famous warning from Prince William of ‘steady on, think about what you’re doing’, that Harry bridled at, was probably meant more with affection,” Morton said.
“I think William understood more than Harry that becoming a member of the royal family is a tough gig. You think about Catherine Middleton,” he continued.
“She’s British, she’s grown up with the traditions, obviously she was a commoner but she has a very sound and strong family.
“Meghan didn’t have any of that. She’s American, she didn’t have a clue about the royal family.”
You can listen to the podcast in full here.
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