Vanity Fair has recently published an article about Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle. The article is really bad and I’m here with my opinion. According to Vanity Fair:
A few years ago a rumor began circulating around the book world about another prospective project for Meghan. This story, which a person with knowledge confirms the broad details of, was that Meghan’s team had a conversation with a publishing house to gauge interest in the idea for a potential book. The concept, for which there was no written or formal proposal, was post-divorce. Not a general book on life after marital dissolution, or one about Meghan’s past experience. (She was married to producer Trevor Engelson from 2011 to 2014.) This book—this notion of a book, really—might center on a post-Harry divorce. Not that there was actually one in the works! Just…if this a priori divorce ever came to be, would this publisher theoretically be interested in a book that took place in its aftermath? Another source with knowledge says, “If that’s true to any degree, she would have been approached and not vice versa.” No offer was ever made, and no manuscript was produced. After all: There was no divorce.
While I’m not going to sit here and say people are lying…I do find it hard to believe Meghan and Prince Harry are out in the world, being all loved up, making sure the world know that they have the bestest, most fairytalest, most perfect love story of a marriage and she shopped around the idea of a post-divorce book. If this is true that she allegedly did that, IMO, it is cruel especially if Prince Harry is just finding out about it. Maybe we will hear a rebuttal article by “sources close to Meghan” or “friends of Meghan” or maybe this will be the rare time when Meghan will speak out directly to the public.
Is Meghan and Prince Harry’s marriage performative?
I know a lot of the Sussex Squad and stans believe the Sussexes are truly in love. However, in MY opinion, it is known that anyone who needs to keep drilling to the public about how great their marriage is and how deeply in love they are for each other, really aren’t in a great and healthy marriage.
Celebrity marriages is one great example of this. There have been many couples throughout the years who would be pictured all loved up. Happy with each other and their kids. News reports, articles, magazine covers just gushing about how perfect their marriage was and how truly, deeply, and purely they were in love.
The creation of social media made such announcement even worse. The constant pictures and videos of the lovey dovey celebrity couple on Instagram (along with the usual news reports, magazine covers, etc.).
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Suddenly, out of the blue (or seemingly out of the blue for those who weren’t following the loved up couple so closely) there is a separation announcement and/or divorce followed by one or both sides talking about the abuse they suffered, how unhappy they were, one or both of the couple cheating, etc.
I do think the Sussexes’ marriage is performative. When the camera is on them, they are smiling and looking lovingly into each others eyes, dancing, and make sure they play up their love for the cameras. However, when they think the camera isn’t capturing them, they no longer look at each other with love in their eyes. Occasionally, there is angry and disgusted look on their faces.
For the cameras, they are holding hands, when they are done performing, they no longer hold hands and look rather done with each other.
Of course, this could just be me projecting but that is how I view their marriage.
What now? Will the Sussexes’ marriage continue on this path?
I’m curious to know if Prince Harry is just finding out about the post-divorce book idea that Meghan was throwing around. Does he know that, if this was Meghan’s plan (I’m not saying it was or wasn’t), that everything he told her about his life will end up in a post-divorce book? Even if he gets her to sign an NDA or some kind of legally binding paper, there is no telling if the book is already written and just waiting to be published.
After all, we know she doesn’t need to directly write and published the book herself. She has gotten Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand to write Finding Freedom. Omid Scobie went on to write (probably with Meghan’s help again) Endgame which named King Charles and Catherine, the Princess of Wales as the two royal racists who allegedly discussed how dark or light Prince Archie skin tone would be.
I do not wish divorce on any couple, least of all Meghan and Prince Harry. I think they should stay together because if Harry gave up his entire life as a working royal, his country, his honorary military title, etc. to “save” Meghan only for her to have been planning her post-divorce life including writing a book which could potentially reveal stuff he has done in private and things he said to her while thinking he could trust her, I don’t know what could be more sadder than that.
Source:
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/prince-harry-meghan-markle-cover-story-2025