Meghan Markle breaks silence on her silence within the Firm
Meghan Markle has seemingly dropped major shade against the Royal Family and the silence she was forced to endure during her time in the Firm.
She shared everything during an interview with British businesswoman, Emma Grede for the podcast Aspire.
In that chat she got honest right off the bat and spoke about empowerment, and how powerless she felt without it, as a working member of the Royal Family.
In particular the entire thing revolved around her wardrobe and the ‘power’ it held.
According to the Duchess, “my feelings surrounding it have ebbed and flowed because they say imitation is the best form of flattery.”
“At the same time, you start to watch how it’s being monetised at such a huge level globally, oftentimes not giving credit to the brands and the designers who actually made those pieces.”
So in those moments she admits “it was that fine line between, well, do you want to spoonfeed who the brands and the designers are, and then it feels promotional, when I have no skin in the game in any of those arrangements.”
However, that is where the issue began, because the former royal posed question after question, recounting how she’d wonder “do you want people to mislabel it? Because when I didn’t feel as though I had as much of an opportunity to speak, what can you say with what you’re wearing? You can say a lot.”
“So being able to support especially female-founded designers, small local brands, any territories we would go to on certain tours, I always tried to tap into local designers to really see their business just do so well as a result or how many people they could help or how much they could give back.”
And it ended up becoming an outlet for her, as Meghan admits, “I think in moments where I found wasn’t as empowered with my voice, I still wanted to be heard in other ways. I still wanted women to know that I was supporting them. I still wanted people to feel like, even if I didn’t get an uplift from that, that they did. In some ways, that actually did uplift me because I went, ‘Oh my gosh.’ Like, there was a company that made jeans, and they would help women.”
“They gave the positions and the roles to women who would have been trafficked, and they took them off the streets and they put them into this labour force to be able to have a well-paying job where they were well taken care of.”
And “to be able to help that company and get letters from those founders saying we were able to help save 25 women because of you wearing these jeans – that is a huge privilege of influence, and I never took that lightly,” she concluded by saying too.
