Meghan's little secrets are starting to unravel thanks to Tom Bower's book, and one excerpt
just revealed what was behind her Vanity Fair cover back in 2017.
Including that her activism is, well... not exactly like what she claimed to the world.
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It all started when Jane Sarkin, Vanity Fair's features editor, pitched the idea that Meghan,
who still wasn't engaged to Harry at the time, should be on the cover.
Graydon Carter, the magazine's editor-in-chief, had only one question about that.
Who the f*ck is Meghan Markle?
He had never heard about her, or about the show Suits.
But it was not hard to persuade him that Harry's latest girlfriend could be the ONE to rock
the British Royal Family, and it would be nice to have that exclusive.
It was a bet on her.
But Meghan was not THAT famous by herself, and Vanity Fair's cover is something that
many desired but few managed to get.
And that's when Sunshine Sachs enters the scene.
Her contact was Keleigh Thomas, who had struggled for years to get Meghan noticed.
I'm not gonna joke about "well, it was Meghan, after all", because breaking out in show business
is no easy task.
But she had a relationship with Harry, and this was the card they were willing to play.
It had already transformed her life, and according to Bower, that feature could even prompt Harry
to announce their engagement.
It's a matter of social and public pressure.
According to Harry himself, he was waiting for the Queen's approval when she returned
from Balmoral that autumn.
But what nobody knew is that Harry had already proposed to her and gave her the ring he had
commissioned.
Then, Harry called Thomas Markle to ask for his approval.
Thomas said, "Yes, so long as you don't raise your hand against her".
I think there might have been a problem with the phone connection, because Harry understood
"Yes, so long as you don't raise your HEAD" and, well... that could explain many things.
But, not even Keleigh at Sunshine Sachs knew about this engagement.
Maybe it was like their wedding.
Nobody knew it was three days before, right?
So she made sure to tell Vanity Fair that the piece should NOT be about her romantic
life, or her relationship with Harry, no.
It had to, and I quote, "represent her as a major actor and especially as an activist
and philanthropist".
At that point, Vanity Fair's interns said, "OK... you know what?
we're gonna go back in a minute", and went scrambling to research the proof that Meghan
was, well, an activist and philanthropist.
Meanwhile, Harry was not happy with the upcoming interview.
He was aware that Diana and Sarah Ferguson were destroyed on similar circumstances, so
he had his reservations about this being a good idea.
The way to convince him, was that this interview had more to do with Suits arriving at episode
100.
Yeah, absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Meghan was a girlfriend to the Royal
Family.
But well, Sam Kashner was the one assigned to sit down with Meghan Markle.
Kashner had only one question:
"Who the f*ck is Meghan Markle?".
Well, his actual words were "I don't know who this woman is".
Recollections may vary.
Now, one thing I noticed on Bower's book, which is relevant to have a better profile
of Meghan's personality, is Kashner's experience BEFORE the interview began.
He was at Meghan's apartment, she was making dinner, going all around the place while she
kept asking questions.
About his studies, about his marriage, his work... to the point that Kashner began to
sense a reversal of roles.
Now, we know this, because Bower must have interviewed Kashner at some point.
And somehow, Kashner thought that Meghan's questioning was relevant.
I've said many times that Nutmeg has a strong personality and she's fairly proactive in
her demeanor, but we don't have many 'hearsay' records of that.
She cooking and walking around the apartment and asking questions at the same time to the
point that the interviewer feels interviewed, is a signal that she wanted to have the upper
hand.
Now, don't get me wrong.
This is something that I strongly encourage.
To ask questions, to show interest in the person you're talking to.
Because everybody loves to talk about themselves, and everybody finds it flattering that you're
interested in their lives.
That is regardless of your intentions, because you might not like Meghan as a person, but
as I've said many times, you should at least consider what anyone is doing right, and see
if it can work for you.
Maybe Meghan wanted Kashner to relax.
Well, not in the way that you're thinking, but relax in terms of not minding that the
topic of Harry and the Royal Family was out of bounds.
Meghan went as far as to tell him, "You're not the typical journalist.
I like you, especially your stuttering".
That's when he got the idea that she was playing him.
Now, this is the moment Bower's book sounds like a vanilla version of Fifty Shades:
"After lunch, she kicked off her shoes.
Tucking her legs on to the seat, Meghan visibly relaxed and, to Kashner, appeared sexy".
Yeah, make of that what you will.
So, Kashner thought, "I'm gonna make my move".
And just to be clear, it's the unsexiest move that you could think of, because the move
was asking about Harry.
Meghan just replied, "We're a couple.
We're in love".
When he tried to press on, asking more details, she played the UNO reverse card and asked
him again about his marriage.
You can see that Meghan has a thing with controlling conversations.
But this is where it gets interesting.
Because after the strange interview, Kashner began contacting the people Meghan had mentioned
as her friends.
You can imagine his face when Serena Williams said that she was not Meg's friend, but just
an acquaintance.
She also gave a rather cryptic remark, "You've got to be who you are, Meghan.
You can't hide", which is all the more disturbing since she was talking to Kashner.
Yeah, what?
It's sad that so many sugars squaddies were so disappointed.
"Meghan Markle is expected to attend the wedding of Serena and Alexis in New Orleans on Thursday.
Fingers crossed for a few pictures"
Never happened.
Now, remember those interns doing research about Meghan's status as activist and philanthropist?
They could find no evidence.
But it really didn't matter to Graydon Carter.
For him, "Hollywood philanthropy is PR philantropy"
Smoke and mirrors.
But look!
we have the confirmation that they are in love, and that is all that matters!
Let's do this!
It was not unexpected that Meghan's Vanity Fair interview, including the cover, would
be seen as she taking advantage of her relationship with Harry to gain fame.
By the way, I'm sure that I've seen those words, "wild about Harry" somewhere else,
but I just can't tell exactly where it was...
ah! never mind.
The fact is that Meghan was furious, because she wanted to be seen as an activist, someone
with higher priorities in life.
But even if she was scolding Kashner about this angle, he decided NOT to tell her that...
guess what?
nobody at Vanity Fair could confirm any of her so called philanTHROpic efforts.
Even the anecdote of her denouncing a sexist Procter and Gamble ad, writing to Hillary
Clinton, and allegedly receiving an answer... never happened.
Kashner couldn't possibly know that Thomas Markle KNEW that neither Clinton or P&G had
replied to Meghan.
There is one more thing that this chapter from Tom Bower's book mentions.
A tiny correction in the original Vanity Fair article about the date when Meghan met Harry.
It originally said May, but then they made the correction to July.
And this is material for another juicy video, because if it was May, it would be colliding
with her relationship with chef Cory Vitiello.
This is relevant because I have never seen THIS kind of body language with Harry.
These are just the facts!
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