Last night’s speech in Manchester and last week’s bombshell interview with The Cut hasn’t just thrust Meghan Markle and her husband back into the headlines, but their inner circle too.
After a series of “extraordinary” claims about her wedding being compared to Nelson Mandela’s release and her suggesting the journalist refers to her “guttural sounds” in a conversation with The Cut, questions are being asked about who’s pulling the strings behind the scenes at Sussex HQ and on this week’s European tour. Who — if anyone – is advising Meghan as she makes her first speech on British soil since stepping back as a royal? Has there been a reshuffle since their last UK visit — and are Harry and Meghan even listening?
“I was so overwhelmed by this experience, I think, I think I even saved my little paper place-marker with my name on it,” Meghan told crowds at last night’s One Young World Summit in Manchester, remembering the first time she appeared at the event as “the girl from Suits”.
She added that the moment was “Just proof: proof that I was there, proof that I belonged, because the truth was, I wasn’t sure that I belonged,” with commentators quick to criticise the speech for being “confusing”, “insincere” and “me, me, me”. So did the same team advise her this time?
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