Meghan’s Mandela moment

It seems that the last two years of interviews, podcasts and media briefings actually count as Meghan keeping shtum. Towards the end of a 6,500-word interview with the Cut, which covers the duchess’s views on the monarchy, the British press and racism, she says that she ‘never had to sign anything that restricts her from talking,’ adding ‘I can talk about my whole experience and make a choice not to’. At this point, Mr S doesn’t know whether this is an attempt at satire or if Meghan genuinely believes her ‘truth’. 

The interview, titled ‘Meghan of Montecito’, comes less than a week after her Archetypes podcast with Serena Williams (in which listeners might have hoped that she could have spoken a little less). Maybe Meghan decided that an hour of uninterrupted self-endorsement wasn’t enough, dedicating at least a day to the feature-length interview and photoshoot. At one point, she claimed that during a visit to the Lion King premiere in London, a cast member from South Africa pulled her aside: ‘He looked at me, and he’s just like light [sic?].