Death of the Queen gave us perspective, says Duchess
Meghan felt energised and excited about her future in wake of ‘big life moment’, she tells US magazine
THE “big moment” of Queen Elizabeth II’S death gave her family “a lot of perspective”, the Duchess of Sussex has said in an interview. The Duchess also said that the new perspective had left her “energised and excited” about her own philanthropic future.
In an interview with entertainment industry magazine Variety, the Duchess added that she was “proud” to have had a “nice warmth with the matriarch of the family”, calling the late Queen a “shining example” of female leadership.
Asked how the family “processed their loss”, she said: “In big moments in life, you get a lot of perspective. It makes you wonder what you want to focus your energy on. Right now, we feel energised and excited about all of the things we’ve been building toward. We’re also focused on our foundation. So much of the work we do includes the philanthropic space.”
The Duchess also confirmed that her work included a Netflix documentary about the Sussex family, adding she was excited to “trust someone with her story”.
“So much of how my husband and I see things is through our love story,” the Duchess said. “I think that’s what people around the world connected to, especially with our wedding. People love love. And our definition of love is really expansive: partner love, self-love, the love of community and family. We use that as the baseline of the kind of shows and documentaries we want out there.”
The Duchess also revealed that there were plans in the works for the couple to be involved in “scripted” shows to “do something fun”. “It doesn’t always have to be so serious,” she said. “Like a good rom-com. Don’t we miss them?”
The Duchess has previously complained life in the Royal family left her silenced. But speaking to Variety, she appeared to make a concession to the institution when asked to compare royal life with her return to the entertainment world.
“As complex as any organisation might be, there is always something in it that I think is positive,” she said. “It’s important to focus on that.”
The Duchess said she had absolutely no intention of returning to acting, but conceded: “I guess never say never.”
If her own two children wanted to go into the industry, she added, she would hope they could “carve out their own path” with “talent and grit”.
Of the death of Queen Elizabeth, which happened by coincidence when the Sussexes were in the UK, the Duchess said she had been “really grateful I was able to be with my husband to support him”.
“I feel deep gratitude to have been able to spend time with [the late Queen] and get to know her,” she added. “It’s been a complicated time, but my husband, ever the optimist, said: ‘Now she’s reunited with her husband.’”