Meghan and Harry have cast a wide net. Not only have their applications for Archewell suggested that they will be aggressively marketing product, but that their range will be so comprehensive that they might well end up the billionaires they wish to be, just off selling chachkas which might have no real relevance but will be desirable to buyers who want a bit of their ‘classy’ and humanitarian dream. Not that Meghan is limiting herself to such activities. Although she is rapidly approaching forty, and therefore has a very short shelf-life left as a leading lady, she has nevertheless expressed interest in reviving her career as an actress in the hope that she can achieve her twin ambitions of winning an Oscar while making a vast fortune at the same time. A story was planted by her ‘people’ that she had received many offers, none of which she would be considering as they were too ‘cheesy’ for someone of her stature. Nevertheless, she remained open to offers from serious A-List directors who could showcase her acting talents in the exemplary light someone as prestigious as the Duchess of Sussex would require. It was mischievously observed that no A-List directors stepped forward, so time will tell whether her ambition to be taken seriously as an actress while earning big bucks in a major production will materialise.
A far more certain route to great fame and fortune rests in the safety of mutually advantageous relationships with billionaire sponsors and major companies whose budgets allow for the luxury of vanity projects passing themselves off as humanitarian activities. Such sophisticated methods will assist Harry and Meghan to successfully make the transition from royal non-earners to majestic earners.
By Easter 2020, the word in royal circles was that this was the route Meghan and Harry intended to go down as they operated at the highest level in order to retain as much of their royal prestige as they could, while maximising their financial potential. Confirmation came when Catherine St-Laurent wrote to her colleagues stating, ‘After nearly nine years alongside Melinda and the Gates Foundation and the Pivotal Ventures teams, I am moving on to begin a new chapter and wanted to make sure to share my contact info so we can stay in touch. Beginning next week I will be acting as Chief of Staff and Executive Director of the new non-profit enterprise for Meghan M and Harry. They are embarking on a new chapter themselves and I am thrilled to be able to play a supporting role in realizing their vision and enabling them to achieve impact on issues that matter most to them.’
People who thought that the royal couple would have no story to tell beyond his pain at his mother’s death were clearly underestimating Meghan’s resourcefulness. Harry doesn’t have to offer great depth or intellect. As the son of one future king and the brother of another, he will always have kudos. Meghan has also demonstrated over the years what superb judgement she has in attaching herself to institutions and people who take her from one level to another. Even if the good ship Meghan sails through some squalls, it is unlikely that she will ever lose this aptitude. If she and Harry end up developing the philanthropic entity they envisage to the full extent of their ambitions, she will have made the right career move in disentangling herself from the royal fold, for she will have set them up as the supranational king and queen of humanitarianism and, as such, will have the respect of much of the world. They will therefore have no need of the approval of people in Britain. Whether that degree of success will ever fill the void created within Harry by abandoning his country and all he held dear within it, is something else.
Even if Meghan and Harry should divorce in the future, as long as they manage to successfully pull off their hat trick of becoming billionaires or even just multi-millionaires while being acknowledged as the world’s premiere humanitarian couple, she will by then be covered in so much philanthropic glory that her eminence will be pretty much inviolate. In that eventuality, it would be very surprising if she did not continue to associate herself with a charitable entity of her creation, thereby perpetuating her distinguished position and securing her position on the world stage for the remainder of her life. Quite possibly, like Jackie, on the deck of some billionaire’s superyacht.
If anyone should fall by the wayside, it will be Harry.
Had Meghan not encouraged Harry to make the move they made, they would not now be on the cusp of possible magnificence such as he would never have been able to envisage before she opened up his eyes to the possibilities before them. From here on in, barring some great slip-up, the doors that will open to them contain not only great wealth but also renown and recognition beyond anything he could ever have imagined when he was merely the second son of the Prince of Wales. Thanks to Meghan’s vision, determination, and resourcefulness, their options now have the potential to grow exponentially. It is very unlikely that Meghan is going anywhere but to the bank via the portals of glory, irrespective of whether Harry is by her side or not.
It is ironic that a couple who are so demonstrably in love can have generated so much speculation as to how long their union will last. Yet from the very beginning of their marriage, bets have been laid as to whether it will last two years, or three, or five. Cynics say that Harry is in for the long haul but that Meghan will have factored into the equation the possibility of being a divorced Duchess of Sussex. That
