Inside the new interview with Meghan Markle, the least royal ever

Summer has passed, Christmas is approaching and that March starring in Oprah’s Sussex interview looks like a geological era ago. Meghan herself must have realized this and surprisingly Thursday night as we know, the episode of the Ellen Show that saw her as a guest was aired. Many had very high expectations regarding the content of the interview, imagining there would be other bombshell statements by the Duchess, but they remained, predictably, disappointed.

Meghan Markle’s from Ellen Degeneres, her friend and neighbor, was simply one “Chat between friends”, clearly with the unmistakable style of the presenter, now in the last season of her infamous show. Markle was introduced as “the Duchess of Sussex”, a title she still has, before sitting down in the famous armchair and promoting, among other things, her book The bench.

He talked about his life in America with Harry, going from telling the Halloween celebrations to show a new photo of little Archie from behind. On the style of Pamela Prati and little Sebastian, with the public who can imagine it is the little Windsor only for the tawny hair and for the infamous hens that are the background to the photo. “Wife and mother.”

Let’s now pass to the tragicomic moment of the evening: Meghan, armed with a headset and radio controlled by Ellen, had to leave her studies and do everything the presenter told her to do in her ear. And so, like any competitor of the GFVIP who under the contractual check performs whatever to ensure the cachet, she went to the street and began to dance and sing with cat ears on her head. He then took a bottle out of his bag and started to drink the milk, then took a crystal telling passers-by that he had healing powers. A mix between a 90s candid camera and a poorly packaged stand up comedy. A content that is incompatible with an institution that, between millennial trappings and dogmas, clearly limited Markle’s freedom of expression. At least the Markle we saw yesterday, perhaps the truest.

Overlooking the passage where Meghan talked about parental leave, her workhorse now, and how she will do everything to introduce them, as if she were a member of the American congress, there is a sobering sentence, the one in which she says how much she and Harry are “really happy”. Because yes, the Duchess could not help but declare to the world how perfect the family picture is. It matters little that someone at home has wondered how it is possible to be truly happy when your husband is not talking to half of his family, who probably thinks he is ungrateful.

The tale told cannot foresee steps backwards, and the prince cannot have second thoughts, at least in the official narrative: we go straight to the goal. What went on air is the obvious continuation of the furrow marked with the exit from the royal family. The interview that the public got to see could never have aired when the dukes were an integral part of the English monarchy, because you can’t be a duchess at court and an overseas comedian embarrassing an entire country.

Meghan loves the spotlight, and there is nothing wrong with that, the second row is not for her this had been understood for some time. Gregarious at court or overseas protagonist? A question so simple that it doesn’t deserve an answer. Perhaps it would have been the case, however, to think about it first, even if some would say that “before” by Ellen she would certainly not have been invited. How to blame him.