Is Meghan preparing for a White House bid?

MEGHAN MARKLE will use the furore over her interview with Oprah to launch a political career that could take her all the way to the White House, if rumours circulating around Westminster last week turn out to be accurate.

One senior Labour figure – a veteran of Tony Blair’s Downing Street administration with strong links to Washington – claimed to The Mail on Sunday that Ms Markle, 39, was networking among senior Democrats with a view to building a campaign and fundraising teams for a tilt at the US Presidency.

Last night, a source declined to comment, but the couple have made little secret of their political beliefs. During the US election last year they levelled a thinly veiled attack on Donald Trump by urging voters to ‘reject hate speech’. Trump himself declared that he was ‘not a fan’ of Meghan, 39.

A source said: ‘The Blairite, internationalist and Democratic party networks are buzzing with talk about Meghan’s political ambitions and potential backers.’ Last year, a friend of Meghan told Vanity Fair magazine that one of the reasons she did not give up her American citizenship when she married into the British royals was to allow her to keep open the option of entering Washington politics.

US constitutional experts responded that she would have to renounce her title if she wanted to hold public office in the States.

Buckingham Palace tried to distance the royal family from the remarks made during the US election by issuing a statement saying that Harry ‘is not a working member of the royal family’.

The source added that the presumption was that Meghan was eyeing 2024, when President Joe Biden will be 82.

If she made it to the White House, Meghan would be the first female US President – succeeding where Hillary Clinton narrowly failed four years ago. She would also be following in the footsteps of President Ronald Reagan, who was a Hollywood actor for four decades before switching to politics.

Meghan’s friends have previously encouraged speculation about her political ambitions – describing her rise from modest beginnings as ‘the embodiment of the American dream’.

‘Party networks buzzing with talk about Meghan’