Meghan moans about her life as a Hollywood trophy wife
by Tiana Lowe, Commentary Writer
September 01, 2022 04:31 PM
For someone who incessantly complains about being silenced, Meghan Markle never seems to shut up.
The B-list actress formerly known as the Duchess of Sussex has officially spent more time whining about her royal in-laws than she actually spent as a working royal — fewer than two years, including an extended maternity vacation. Now, she is in The Cut moaning about her horrible life as a Hollywood trophy wife to a literal prince.
The magazine’s cover star was ostensibly promoting the overdue launch of her feminist podcast Archetypes. A full 21 months elapsed between Meg and her husband, Harry, inking their reported $25 million deal with Spotify and the launch of their first series. So the Mountbatten-Windsors need the coverage as much as The Cut needs the clicks. But the real drama came not from Meghan rehashing yet again how (to borrow a phrase from Tina Brown) a 1,000-year-old company headed by a 96-year-old monarch was insufficiently progressive for a Soho House socialite. It was, rather, Markle’s thoroughly modern and distinctly Californian woe: keeping up with the Joneses of Montecito.
When Harry first blindsided his dear old dad and granny with the news that he and his wife were divorcing the family, they decamped from Canada to California. Despite having never actually met billionaire producer Tyler Perry in person, Meghan nabbed an invite for her and Harry to sojourn at his Beverly Hills mansion at the start of the pandemic.
Then Meghan found the house described by The Cut’s Allison P. Davis as “the kind of big that startles you into remembering that unimaginable wealth is actually someone’s daily reality ... evokes a classic Tuscan villa, a Napa vineyard, and a manicured Beverly Hills country club decorated with careful, considered coastal tones for a casual air — the home equivalent of billionaires dressing down in denim.”
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