Meghan faces difficult UK return amid low popularity and strained royal ties as she works to rebuild her image
Meghan Markle faces challenges in re-assimilating into UK life due to low public popularity and complex relationships with the royal family. Reports suggest she may be considering a role in a UK-filmed Netflix series while focusing on her family life.
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LONDON, Aug 22 — Prince Harry’s wife, Meghan, faces a tough challenge in re-assimilating to life in the UK, where she remains deeply unpopular, while managing uneasy ties with the royal family.
Through bombshell interviews and tell-all documentaries, the 45-year-old former American actor has never hidden how difficult she found things after her fairytale wedding to Harry in 2018.
And both she and Harry have complained about her treatment by the British media, which Harry told a court this year made her life “an absolute misery”.
“I think there’s more questions sort of over her and how she re-adapts to the life back in the United Kingdom” than about Harry, said historian Ed Owens.
How she will cope “is difficult to answer at this stage because you know she’s tried successively over the last six years to reinvent her public image to relaunch her brand”, he added.
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