Meghan Markle keeps a “weapon in her back pocket” if she wants to seek “revenge” on the Royal Family in the future, an expert has claimed.
It’s been over four years since she and Prince Harry quit as working Royals, and since the couple has been very outspoken about their time in the Firm, including a shocking interview with Oprah Winfrey and their own Netflix series.
Prince Harry then went on to release his bombshell memoir Spare last year, which was critical of the Royal Institution, including his father, King Charles and brother, Prince William. Since the Netflix series, Meghan has remained quiet about her in-laws.
However, rumour has it that Meghan could be potentially taking a leaf out of Harry’s book by telling her side of the story in her own memoir.
The speculation has been fuelled after Meghan hinted in an interview two years ago that she kept a journal during her time as a working royal.
BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond suggested that it means Meghan’s option of an expose book is “in her back pocket.”
She said: “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.”
She added: “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.”
Back in 2022, Meghan spoke to US magazine The Cut about family life in California after stepping down from royal duties and her then podcast Archetypes.
In the interview, she shared how she did not have to sign an NDA when she left the firm and how she found a journal that she had kept at Frogmore Cottage.
She said: “You go back, and you open drawers, and you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh. This is what I was writing in my journal there.”
After Meghan’s comments, Sunday Times Royal Editor Roya Nikkhah said on True Royalty TV’s The Royal Beat that she believed some of Meghan’s comments were very “telling.”
She said: “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.
“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.”