Prince Harry’s wife, Meghan, faces a tough challenge in reassimilating to life in the UK, where she remains deeply unpopular, as well as managing uneasy ties with the royal family.
Through bombshell interviews and tell-all documentaries, the 45-year-old former American actress has never hidden how difficult she found things after her fairytale wedding to Harry in 2018.
And both she and Harry have complained about her treatment by the British media, which Harry told a court this year made her life “an absolute misery.”
“I think there’s more questions sort of over her and how she re-adapts to life back in the United Kingdom” than about Harry, said historian Ed Owens.
How she will cope “is difficult to answer at this stage because you know she’s tried successively over the last six years to reinvent her public image to relaunch her brand”, he added.
Deeply attached to his charitable work and keen for his children to build closer ties with his family, King Charles III’s younger son has retained strong ties to Britain.
But for Meghan, things appear more complicated. What will she do away from her sunny Californian base where she is clearly more at home?
Their surprise move back to the UK — six years after triggering a storm by quitting their royal duties — has reportedly in part come about because Meghan, who had a starring part in the US show “Suits”, has been offered an acting role in a UK-based production.
The news was broken by Australian news website news.com.au and was not denied by a spokesperson for the couple contacted by AFP.
Experts believe Meghan is likely to focus primarily on family life, particularly her children Archie, seven, and Lilibet, five.
In past interviews, she has acknowledged that she enjoys doing the daily school run, for example.
The two kids have already been enrolled at a British school, and the couple have already reportedly chosen a new home.
In the United States, however, her prospects appeared to have dimmed following the end of her Netflix deal for her lifestyle and cookery show “With Love, Meghan”.
