Meghan Markle's recent controversial interview saw her deliver "thinly veiled threats" to the royals and hinted she may write a book in future, a royal expert has said.
Last week, Meghan spoke to US magazine The Cut about her family life in California after stepping down from royal duties and her new podcast 'Archetypes'. In the interview, she revealed how she did not have to sign an NDA when she and husband Prince Harry sensationally quit as working royals in 2020. And she also told how found a journal that she had kept during her time as a member of the Firm at Frogmore Cottage when she returned to the UK for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations earlier this summer.
Speaking on True Royalty TV's The Royal Beat, Sunday Times Royal Editor Roya Nikkhah believes some of Meghan's comments in the interview were very telling.
She explained: "The thinly veiled threats that came in [Meghan's interview with The Cut] ...I think [she] probably hopes it does [feel threatening] to the Royal Family... [But] I think there’s a lot of eye-rolling, going, 'We're used to this by now'... [But] that phrase, 'I have a lot to say until I don't' and, 'I’ve never signed anything that restricts me from talking'... there was a very strong inference there.
"And, of course, the reminder that she keeps a journal, and [her] revelation that, 'when we came back to Windsor, to Frogmore Cottage for the Jubilee, I rediscovered my journal that I’d left there' - I was astonished to discover that she had left a highly private diary behind in Windsor, rather than taking it back.
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"She’s mentioned a couple of times in the last year or two that she kept a journal, and I think there is a very strong inference that Meghan could write her own memoir."
And Roya added that she believes Meghan's story about returning to Frogmore Cottage - her and Harry's UK home - was an excuse to talk about the journal.
She said: "Most of their belongings were packed up a long time before they even left for Canada and America, so packing up was done.
"Certainly when Eugenie lived there for a while with her husband and child, they had the run of the house.
"I think that most of Harry and Meghan’s belongings that remained, which weren't many, were stored away. So I don't think she came back and packed up the whole house... I read it as an opportunity for her to mention the journal."
Later today, Harry and Meghan will make their first public appearance in the UK since returning for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
They are going to Manchester on Monday for the One Young World summit, an event which brings together young leaders from more than 190 countries.
Next stop is Germany for the Invictus Games Dusseldorf 2023 One Year To Go event which is taking place on Tuesday, before they return to the UK for the WellChild Awards in London where Harry will deliver a speech on Thursday.
Their visit to the UK will be the first time they have been back in the country since the Jubilee celebrations in early June, when they attended the service of thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral.
The trip falls in the same week the new prime minister is due to be announced and asked to form a government by the Queen. The monarch will appoint a new prime minister at Balmoral for the first time in her reign.
The 96-year-old, who has faced ongoing mobility issues, traditionally holds audiences with outgoing and incoming premiers at Buckingham Palace.
It is not known whether Harry and Meghan will visit the Queen in Balmoral during their trip.
The Royal Beat - available on True Royalty TV.
