Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have steered away from endorsing any explicit candidate, and as an alternative issued a press release through the Archewell Foundation in September, which described voting as “a elementary strategy to affect the destiny of our communities. At The Archewell Foundation, we acknowledge that civic engagement, regardless of one’s political get together, is on the coronary heart of a extra simply and equitable world.”
It’s protected to imagine, nonetheless, that like a lot of Hollywood, the couple leans Democrat—which means that they are unlikely to welcome the election consequence with a lot pleasure, particularly given Meghan’s public denouncement of Donald Trump up to now. In 2016, earlier than she had even met (not to mention married) Prince Harry, she instructed a US chat present that she discovered Trump to be “misogynistic” and “divisive,” including that the prospect of him within the White House left her pondering, “I would simply keep in Canada.” Two months later, she went on a date with the royal who would turn out to be her husband and, three months after that, Trump was voted into workplace.
As a member of the royal household, Meghan was—and remains to be—anticipated to stay politically impartial. But when the following election got here round 4 years later, she and Harry appeared in a video, urging individuals to vote. Harry mentioned that they need to “reject hate speech, misinformation and on-line negativity” (which many believed on the time to be a thinly veiled swipe at Trump) whereas Meghan labelled the race “an important election of our lifetime.”
