Meghan Markle was appointed vice president of the Commonwealth Trust in March 2019 by the late Queen Elizabeth II with Prince Harry serving as president, in the hope the couple could breathe fresh life into the institution for the next generation.
When Meghan was announced she claimed her work would “highlight the Trust’s partnerships with young people across the Commonwealth, and in particular its work supporting women and girls”.
However, when Meghan and Harry aired their Netflix docuseries in December 2022, they hired experts to criticise the institution, within one expert believing the late Queen would have been “horrified” by the decision.
The Daily Mail’s Diary Editor Richard Eden said: “It’s almost lucky that Queen Elizabeth isn’t alive to see this because the Commonwealth was so central to her and bringing people together. It’s a voluntary organisation whereas [in the documentary], it’s dismissed as this colonial body used for Britain to extract money and resources from the rest of the world. She would have been horrified.”
In the documentary, academic Afua Hirsch said that it was “Empire 2.0″, while author Kehinde Andrews claimed ‘”nothing has changed” from the UK’s colonial past, apart from the Royal Family’s “better PR”.
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