‘She will bolt’, feminist Greer says of Meghan
SHE is not exactly known for speaking up in favour of marriage – or the British royal family – and now veteran feminist Germaine Greer has claimed Meghan Markle’s marriage to Prince Harry will be short-lived.
The 79-year-old Australian writer predicted that divorcee Ms Markle would soon ‘bolt’ again.
Ms Greer insinuated the former actress, whom she claimed was born into poverty, was only marrying Harry for his money and that his family would have her ‘on her back immediately’ to produce children.
Greer, whose 1970 book The Female Eunuch argued that the nuclear family represses women, said: ‘She will see vistas of boredom that are unbelievable. I think the pressure to escape from The Firm is crushing.
‘It’s nearly always a question of a non-royal running for the hills just to get away from the whole thing. It’s horrible, it’s anachronistic.’
In the interview on Australian TV news programme 60 Minutes on Sunday night, Ms Greer made a clear reference to Ms Markle’s failed marriage to film producer Trevor Engelson, saying waspishly: ‘I think Prediction: Ms Greer on TV show she’ll bolt. She bolted before, she was out the door.’ Ms Markle and Mr Engelson dated for seven years before they married in 2011, just as her career was taking off. Within two years, however, they divorced.
Asked why the actress would give up everything unless she was sure the relationship with Harry would last, Ms Greer smiled and remarked: ‘Why would a girl born in poverty marry a man worth 53 million quid? ’
Ms Markle’s father was an awardwinning Hollywood lighting director and she grew up in a well-to-do suburb of Los Angeles.