By royal biographer Emily Andrews
WHAT EXACTLY IS MEGHAN DOING?
For a woman who once promised to hit ‘the ground running’ when she entered royal life, the Duchess of Sussex is remarkably quiet.
It’s almost a year since she signed up with Hollywood power broker extraordinaire Ari Emanuel and what has happened since?
Very little.
Which begs me to ask, what is she up to? Where is this much-vaunted ‘move forward’?
Sure, their website has been rebranded (with Meghan’s, not Harry’s, royal coat of arms) and now trills ‘The Office of Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, is shaping the future through business and philanthropy’ but there are scant few details.
She did announce that she’s re-releasing her podcast Archetypes ‘so that more people can have access to it’ with a new deal with Lemonada Media alongside a ‘dynamic new podcast’.
We wait with bated breath…
Yet the small female-founded audio company will have nowhere near the financial muscle to rival the $20 million Spotify deal that abruptly ended last year.
Sources tell me that Harry and Meghan have been trying to pursue business opportunities in film and TV (to add to their Netflix deal, which is also rumoured to be hanging in the balance), and that may explain why they flew to Jamaica to appear at a film premiere as guests of Paramount.
Nothing as yet seems to have materialised and it’s interesting that there is no mention of their Netflix programmes on their new website.
Instead, it screams ‘royal’ and certainly the Sussexes do best when they are carrying out what would be considered their ‘old’ royal work. In Canada at the Invictus Games ‘One Year to Go’ celebrations, Meghan looked glamorous and Harry enthused as they chatted to injured service personnel. Harry even had a go at some daredevil winter sports.
She let Harry do the talking – quite literally in an official speech and also in a Good Morning America exclusive interview.
Courtiers back here in the UK sighed with muted exasperation, as Harry said his father’s cancer could ‘absolutely’ bring the family closer, but it was pretty harmless stuff overall.
‘I think any illness,’ he added, surrounded by sick or wounded veterans, ‘Any sickness
