A FORMER top 10 Downing Street advisor has suggested Meghan Markle never "had any intention of exercising the restraint required as a member of the Royal Family" when she married Prince Harry in 2018
The implication was made by Nick Timothy, who served as Theresa May’s joint chief-of-staff from her accession to the premiership in 2016 until shortly after the 2017 general election. Mr Timothy, who also worked for Mrs May as Home Secretary, published ‘Remaking One Nation: The Future of Conservatism’ earlier this year.
On Thursday Meghan made politically sensitive remarks whilst
appearing via video at a virtual event held by When All Women Vote, which
encouraged American women to vote.
After calling for “change” she told potential voters “if you
aren’t going out there and voting, then you're complicit”.
She also took aim at what she termed “attempts of voter
suppression” ahead of November’s presidential election.
Responding on Twitter Mr Timothy said: “If you believe
Meghan Markle ever had any intention of exercising the restraint required as a
member of the Royal Family, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.”
By convention members of the royal family are expected to
remain politically neutral.
In January Harry and Meghan announced they planned to step
down as senior royals and the couple are currently living in Los Angeles.
During her talk Meghan commented: “We're only 75 days away
from election day and that is so very close, and yet there's so much work to be
done in that amount of time, because we all know what's at stake this year.
“And we look at the attempts of voter suppression and what that's doing, all the more reason we need each of you to be out there supporting each other to understand that this fight is worth fighting and we all have to be out there mobilising to have our voices heard," she told the event.
Her son, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, was born in May 2019.
Meghan’s recent comments are the most overt political
intervention she has made since marrying into the royal family.
In response Good Morning Britain co-host Piers Morgan called on
the Queen to remove her royal title.
He tweeted: “The Queen must strip the Sussexes of their titles.
“They can’t remain as royals & spout off about foreign
elections in such a brazenly partisan way.”
Whilst Harry and Meghan have agreed not to use their HRH titles
they remain members of the royal family.
However other social media users jumped to the Duchesses’
defence.
Leeds University student Harriett Fuller tweeted: “You have to
wonder if Meghan Markle would be being slated for expressing her opinions if
she was a male.
“She's American and is stripped of Royal titles with every right
to express her concern over the most US election in history.
“And people wonder why she left the UK?”
Meghan and Harry moved to Los Angeles, the Duchesses’ home town,
shortly before COVID-19 lockdown was imposed earlier this year.
