Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Meghan Markle: the polite revolutionary in the palace

Meghan Markle: the polite revolutionary in the palace

 
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"The right think.. she is irritating and preachy while the new, punitive, left is not keen to identify with rich royals with extensive shoe collections" Via
Her liberal views rile the right and left, but an encounter with the Duchess of Sussex leaves Anne McElvoy sure her campaigning will not be silenced
 
From left, Adwoa Aboah, Julia Gillard, the Duchess of Sussex, Anne McElvoy and Angie Murimirwa, executive director Africa for the charity Camfed
From left to right, Adwoa Aboah, Julia Gillard, the Duchess of Sussex, Anne McElvoy and Angie Murimirwa, executive director Africa for the charity Camfed. [photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS]
She’s the Duchess of Woke, imposing trendy views on stunned courtiers and preaching women’s empowerment, a presumptuous “Yoko Ono to the royal Beatles”. Or......she’s just the wake-up call a dusty Establishment needs, enthusing the once-laddish Prince Harry with the cause of girls’ education in poor countries as the key to “this equality we’re pursuing” and curbing the (real) monthly curse for so many girls and women of dire period poverty, which keeps them out of the schoolroom and the workplace for want of sanitary products.
A reputation for having fitted the Cinderella glass slipper and “capturing” larky Prince Harry has been exchanged since her marriage last May for a role as practised glass-ceiling smasher.
Deconstructing the artist formally known as Meghan Markle is a…

 

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