Meghan Markle, if she was minded to, could easily corner the erotic ASMR market – that weird bit of the internet in which women breathily relate fictitious experiences with their mouths too close to the microphone for the gratification of lonely nerds everywhere.
It’s impossible to listen to her latest self-glorifying venture into podcasting, Archetypes (get it?), without understanding this is something of which the Duchess herself is keenly aware.
At the outset of the first episode, released on Tuesday, she explains with a deliberately pleasing huskiness how the podcast would be concerned with exploring a ‘dirty, dirty word’.
I don’t mind admitting the way she said the line elicited in me – as no doubt intended, she being a trained actress and all – a dry throated stirring that for a moment seemed to more than make up for the long months I have impatiently waited for the follow-up to the podcast (a masterpiece
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