Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have posed with the poet and activist Amanda Gorman, one of the guests on Meghan Markle's podcast
Relaxed, very smiling, wearing casual clothes and hugging Amanda Gorman, a poet known for her feminist and anti-racist activism. This has been the last image that has emerged of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, shared by the writer herself after participating in Meghan Markle's Archeotypes podcast. The photograph is radically different from those that dominated the international press just five years ago: the day they announced their engagement.
So there were also smiles, they were happy, but also a lot of nervousness. Meghan Markle, wearing an unforgettable white trench coat with a tie at the waist, did not let go of Prince Harry's hand, who was visibly tense, as always when he had to face a shower of flashes from photographers. She would later explain the important role that he played this apprehension, accentuated after the death of her mother, Diana of Wales, in her decision to change her life. But let's go back to November 27, 2017. It was her first posed in Kensington Gardens. The couple represented the future of a more modern and open monarchy. Meghan Markle was a rare bird at Court. She is American, an actress, natural, fluent in the cameras and close, perhaps too close for Buckingham's royal protocols.
This is how the story has changed
In their first interview after announcing their engagement, the couple seemed in love and excited about the future they had ahead of them. They told how they met, how the Prince asked her to marry him, and Meghan's excellent reception in the royal family. The story has changed a lot since then and the last image of the couple shows it. They are in the United States, where they moved more than two years ago, exchanging the palace for a luxurious mansion in an exclusive area of California. They dress very casually and the smile of the son of the King of England is, simply, that of a happy and calm person.
Among them stands a woman who fights for many of the causes that Harry and Meghan want to promote from the foundation they launched after their departure from the royal house. This is Amanda Gorman, a poet and activist against oppression and racism whom the Duchess of Sussex interviewed on her podcast. Because she has a podcast, yes, something unimaginable to follow within the walls of the Palace. Meghan has always had a lot to say. To become a member of the royal family after her marriage, he had to leave acting and also close a blog in which she expressed many of her concerns. Now, the Sussexes have launched several audiovisual initiatives to make her voice heard and, in addition, she has her own space in which she tries to empower black women by breaking down myths and stereotypes.
They don't appear in the photo, but they have also formed a family of four on the other side of the pond. Although Archie was born in London, where he was baptized along with the Windsors, the youngest, Lilibet Diana, one and a half years old, was the first great-granddaughter of Elizabeth II to be born outside the United Kingdom.
They finally have the happy ending they were looking for for that story that began five years ago, although along the way the excellent relationship they claimed to maintain with the now King Charles, or with the Dukes of Cambridge, has broken down. They are independent and not only to promote their own projects and initiatives, but also to show their disenchantment with some of the situations experienced within the royal family and air them in prime time. That devastating interview with Oprah Winfrey put the finishing touch on his rift with the Windsors and the next biography of Prince Harry aims to be another bomb for Buckingham.
