In the wake of the ‘South Park’ fiasco and her gaining worse ratings than Prince Andrew, Matthew Steeples asks if the chance of a career in politics for the Duchess of Sussex has been scuppered; 81% of respondents to a poll believe she’d never get selected
In March 2021, Gutsy Women author Hillary Clinton laughably whined to The Washington Post about how she thought that the British media’s treatment of the Duchess of Sussex was “outrageous” and “heartbreaking” in the wake of her and her husband’s disgraceful decision to spill their guts to Oprah Winfrey.
Now, in the wake of the latest “brutal mockery” of the woman formerly known as Meghan Markle and her drip of a husband on South Park having supposedly left the pair “annoyed, upset and overwhelmed,” market research film Redfield & Wilton for Newsweek have found that the approval rating for the Duchess of Sussex to be -17 whilst even Prince Andrew is only at -2.
Previously lauded as supported by the “liberal elite” linked to Joe Biden and often the topic of speculation that she “may one day consider launching a campaign to enter the race to become US President,” the former Suits actress has been “losing support” from even her former closest allies.
Missing in action mostly since December, Sky News last week quoted “former friend public relations expert” Nick Ede as stating:
“[In Hollywood the royals that quit are] quite far down really in that pecking order. Hollywood royalty isn’t somebody with a title. It’s J.Lo, it’s Sharon Stone, it’s Beyonce, it’s the Kardashians. That’s their royalty. Also the Obamas or the Clintons. If you’ve been in office, apart from Trump, then you’re seen as being a top dog. I think they have underestimated that in many ways.”
“I think they came in and thought that the number one people on the block and they’re not really.”
“They’re kind of quite far down really in that pecking order. And I think that’s been an issue with them, in that sense of stepping down.”
Going further and speaking to Express.co.uk in January, Nile Gardiner, a “Washington-based foreign policy expert,” accused the duchess of “endlessly whining.” He added:
“The recent Netflix documentary series received quite a lot of criticism in the US media, not just from the conservatives, but also among liberals as well, who felt this was an endlessly-whining exercise.”
“Meghan is now losing support on the left as well and that is dangerous for her because that is her key support base.”
“The Netflix documentary series was a big mistake from Meghan so she has lost some ground with the left in the US who have grown tired of her endless celebrity whining.”
“Meghan remains someone who has deep-seated political ambitions and retains some strong ties to Democratic Party elites but clearly she has vast ambitions with what she wants to achieve in the US.”
“It is striking Meghan has had very little support from the woke liberal elites who haven’t come out in force to defend her. The scale of Meghan’s vanity and arrogance has even put off some of her natural allies on the American left.”
“This has backfired spectacularly on Meghan and Harry and this is not the hit they were hoping it would be. It has alienated the British people but it has also failed to garner any significant support in America.”
Elsewhere on YouTube, the full three-part Meghan Markle Expose interview by Shaun Attwood with The Steeple Times’s Matthew Steeples has now been watched over 262,000 times and many times more in segments also. A fourth part will be filmed in the coming week and I welcome your suggestions as to talking points you’d like to hear discussed at editorial@thesteepletimes.com.
Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.
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What’s the truth about the stories that abound about the Duchess of Sussex?
- In November 2021, the duchess was forced to apologise to the Appeal Court in London for making a misleading statement in her privacy case against The Mail on Sunday’s publishers.
- Her very own father, Thomas, has called out her many untruths about him and others again, again and again.
- Of her claiming having got married the day before she actually did, Mr Markle stated: “Lying about the archbishop? How can you say: ‘We’ve been married three days before we got married’? Her lies are so obvious, I don’t know why she says them.”
- Her very own half-sister, Samantha Markle, who is currently bringing a defamation case against her, has called her out as a liar on multiple occasions also. It has been proven that the duchess’s claim that she hasn’t seen her sibling in over 20 years was untrue given a photo of the pair together 14 years ago proves quite to the contrary.
- Her very own half-brother, Thomas Jr., said of her: “I told Prince Harry, I think she’s going to ruin your life. She’s very shallow… She’s a phony, a bully, a jaded, shallow, conceited woman.”
- The wife of Prince Harry has been called out on multiple occasions for spinning stories against other members of the royal family, most especially the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
- Staff who’ve worked for her have complained that she is a bully and investigations into this remain ongoing.
- The Duchess of Sussex is a known manipulator of the press and paparazzis and it has been claimed that she’ll “twist the truth” to get any headline she wants.
- Questions remain as to how many times she’s actually been married in total. Some say twice, some say thrice.
- What’s the truth about Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland? Is this clearly equally manipulative woman an honest and decent citizen or is she a jailbird who has spent time in the clink?
- Did the ‘Montecito Meddler’ meet Prince Andrew or Prince Harry first? Rumours abound that she could have spent time and holidayed with the former as long ago as 2001 and that her claim to have no prior knowledge of the royal family until 2016 is just utter baloney.
- “Would you trust this woman with a bargepole?” is something often asked of this money motivated minx.
