Meghan Markle: Tina Brown said Meghan Markle decided “that the monarchy likely needed her more than she needed them”.
In an article, an author claimed Meghan Markle felt she needed the royal family more than they needed her. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry came to the conclusion after their tour of Australia in 2018, according to royal author Tina Brown.
According to Tina Brown’s book, ‘The Palace Papers,’ Meghan Markle decided “that the monarchy likely needed her more than she needed them”
“She had starred in the equivalent of a blockbuster film and wanted her leading-lady status to be reflected in lights,” the author added.
A trip by Meghan Markle and Prince Harry to Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, and Fiji in October 2018 was hailed as a huge success.
According to Tina Brown, Meghan Markle felt her star power outweighed what she was allowed to do as a royal.
“That was something that puzzled the royal household tremendously. Their tour of Australia was a wild success, more successful than Kate and William’s, in terms of crowds and the adulation. She [Meghan] wanted to be able to talk about the causes that she cared about as her, as opposed to being a representative figure in the monarchy,” the author said.
“There was a real sense of disappointment when she came home that somehow she was a star beyond, you know, anything one had seen before, except for Diana, really, on this tour,” the author added.
“I guess, it was the star power essentially that she felt now was bigger than what she was allowed to do in the monarchy,” the author further said.
The Sussexes officially stepped down from royal duties in March 2020.