Gina Nelthorpe-Cowne, who once represented Meghan Markle during her acting career, recalled how their friendship abruptly ended when Meghan decided to leave Hollywood.
Just weeks after meeting Prince Harry, Meghan announced she was leaving acting and commercial work altogether. For Gina, the decision meant not only the loss of a client but the loss of someone she considered a friend.
According to Royal insider Tom Bower’s bestseller Revenge, Meghan’s shift away from Hollywood was timed with the start of her royal romance.
“In Meghan Markle’s life, little happened by chance. Beyond the empathetic smile was a woman who disrupted spontaneity and liked to control every aspect of her life. In late September 2016, nothing was more important than her relationship with Harry,” he wrote.
“And, unsurprisingly, two weeks later Meghan emailed her agent – Gina Nelthorpe-Cowne – to announce the end of her acting and commercial career,” he says in the book. Gina told Bower, according to the book: “I realised it meant losing her as a friend as well as a client.”
Once she became a working royal, Meghan reportedly struggled with the strict expectations of palace life. Author Tom Quinn wrote in Yes Ma’am that “Buckingham Palace became really worried when they became aware that Meghan had plans for her life as a working royal that were not going to be part of a general strategy agreed with the staff – she just wanted to do her own thing.”
A courtier told Quinn: “She didn’t understand that when you join the Royal Family, you don’t do as you please, you do as you’re told. In a sense, you become a servant of the family.”
By early 2020, Harry and Meghan formally stepped down as working royals. Valentine Low later wrote in Courtiers that Meghan’s desire to “earn money for herself” played a role in the couple’s decision to leave royal life entirely.
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