When you look through photos of Meghan at events over the last seven years, you wonder what was going on behind the familiar smile.<\/p>\n
Those years have seen Netflix films, a tell-all memoir by Prince Harry, cookery series, podcasts and TV interviews. But a hidden narrative has been running in the background.<\/p>\n
Meghan’s supporters have pointed to other factors in how she has been treated, with racism and sexism part of that toxic mix.<\/p>\n
But maybe there was also a sense of not knowing the authentic person behind the polished Brand Meghan.<\/p>\n
On Instagram, she has curated her life to look idyllic, but perhaps she’ll get a more generous hearing now that her back story is as messy and imperfect as everyone else’s.<\/p>\n
It could still be an uphill struggle to become more popular, beyond her own vocal, core group of supporters.<\/p>\n
A survey from YouGov earlier this month found 22% of people had a positive view of Meghan, compared with 49% who dislike her.<\/p>\n
That suggests there is still some way to go before Meghan fully wins the trust of the public. Fascination, yes. But affection, not always.<\/p>\n
For the British public, Californian Meghan hasn’t always translated well.<\/p>\n
But perhaps this complex, still developing story – and the light it sheds on previous years – might mean there’s a more rounded view of her in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you look through photos of Meghan at events over the last seven years, you wonder what was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-814839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}