With the launch of her long-awaited Spotify podcast and a flashy new profile in New York Magazine, Meghan Markle is back in the public eye.
But as she continues to talk about the “hardships” she has endured as a member of the British royal family, and “turn it into content,” what that persona is and how much Meghan is ready to redefine herself. I’m not sure. The Cut reports.
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Questions continue to permeate Meghan and Prince Harry as Spotify finally begins to realize its multi-million dollar ‘vanity’ deal with Netflix. The Duchess of Sussex seems happy with her profitable investment. It topped Spotify star Joe Rogan’s podcast last week at number one. Including the United States, he reached #1 on platforms in six countries.
However, in the nearly two years before launching ‘Archetypes’, Meghan reportedly spent considerable effort, ‘care’ and even ‘fear’ trying to work out her post-‘Megxit’ persona. increase. Harry will launch projects on her Spotify and Netflix, according to a report by entertainment industry newsletter The Ankler.
The former TV actress carefully curated her brand with Instagram posts and Goop-esque lifestyle blog The Tig before meeting Harry. Now, Duchess Meghan finds herself “trying to define what her brand of post-royal, post-work actress really is.”
“She cares so much about her image that she’s afraid to make decisions, so they can’t pull the trigger on anything,” a source who spoke with Archewell about their content strategy told LaPorte. Told.
“She wants to be seen as a leader in this world, but they don’t have strong ideas,” the source added.
A source close to Meghan disputed this characterization of LaPorte, stating: It is always her North Star that guides her truth. ”
LaPorte reported that Meghan and Harry would really like to be seen as Davos-style global ambassadors. The millennial woman on whom feminism was built, described it as “the proverbial door into her life.”
Meghan can only open those doors in the most carefully crafted ways, starting by setting the scene for an interview with writer Alison P. Davis, as described in her profile. .
setting. It was Harry and Meghan’s “beautiful sitting room” in the Montecito mansion, Davis wrote.
“Relaxing in her comfy chair, Meghan stares at everything that’s temperature-controlled, high-ceilinged, sun-dazzling, and perfectly marshmallow-colored,” Davis wrote. A house-branded rosewater candle is lit, and its scent fills the air, mingling with the gentle notes of a flamenco guitar wafting from the speakers.Then, in a lull in conversation, Meghan turns to me. lean forward and ask in conspiratorial stillness, “Do you want to know the secret?”
The secret, it turns out, is that Meghan may be returning to Instagram. She and Harry famously quit using social media after leaving royal life and moving to the United States, saying they were tired of bullying and addiction. He questioned whether it was really a “troll” and said he wasn’t really sure if Meghan would return to Instagram.
There are other ways a profile lends credence to the idea that Meghan is pondering what she says and how she wants to meet. Her critics of Meghan can easily see her as overly cautious, calculating, or unfaithful.
For one, Davis reportedly wouldn’t answer questions directly about reports that Meghan was filming a Netflix documentary about her and Harry’s life in California, or a “love story,” as Meghan called it.
Meghan told Davis she wasn’t trying to be “selfish” but said it would be up to her publicist or Netflix to release the information. When asked about the project, she said such inquiries were “half answers,” “redirects,” and “institutional paranoia by teams responding to press inquiries as if they were protecting nuclear code.” reported that it was
Davis wrote that Meghan’s deliberations were very evident in the way she presented herself. We have conversations.” Without answering one specific question, Meghan instead suggested how she would transcribe the noise she was making. she’s just moaning.
After listening to the debut episode of her “Archetype” podcast, The Washington Post’s cultural columnist Alyssa Rosenberg also posed a question about where Meghan is headed in her rebranding efforts.
The podcast has the commendable goal of challenging negative stereotypes about women, with Meghan speaking to her famous friends about society’s expectations and the struggles they’ve faced professionally and personally. Her first episode featured Meghan talking to her friend and tennis legend Serena Williams about the harmful labels attached to women who demonstrate her ambition. .
According to Rosenberg, the episode was more about immediate topics and Williams’ illustrious career than it was about Meghan’s struggles after marrying Prince Harry in 2018 and becoming a senior member of the royal family. Headlines last week saw the royal aide continuing his official engagement during his 2019 tour of South Africa after hearing that the heater in baby son Archie’s bedroom had started to smoke or catch fire. It focused on Meghan’s anger and pain at being Archie wasn’t in his bedroom at the time.
If Meghan and Harry really want to build a new life in America, become powerful in Hollywood, or be global ambassadors for a greater cause, then “make yourself the center of the story.” “You have to stop,” said Rosenberg.
Rosenberg said the couple seemed to be trapped in a version of what New Yorker writer Parul Segal called a “trauma plot.” He seems to be obsessed with the reason why he crossed the pond and escaped.
According to a New York Magazine profile, Meghan isn’t yet ready to shed her identity as a “trauma conspiracy” and a victim of royalty. She said Harry also “lost” her father, Prince Charles, in the process of her royal exit.
Meanwhile, when asked if there was room for forgiveness between her, her royal in-laws, and her own estranged family, Meghan said, “Forgiveness takes a lot of work.” I suggested that I have something to say.