It is no longer that there will yet be another Royal wedding come next spring between blue blood and the American Actress, Meghan Markle. Even as the media seem to be all up on the news and hardly getting a breather from it, it seems the engagement is changing the Meghan Markle that we all know.
The actress who is a philanthropist is dumping her role both as an actor on the FX TV series Suits, which she has been featured for seven seasons and as a UN Ambassador. When asked about giving up her career, Markle put a different spin on it. “I don’t see it as giving anything up,” she said. “I see it as a change. It’s a new chapter.”
In April, she shuttered her lifestyle blog, The Tig, which she had been running for three years. Once she ties the knot, Markle will transition “out of my career and into my new role” as the Duchess of Sussex, which means she will focus on “getting to know more about the different communities here and smaller organizations that are working on the same causes that I’ve always been passionate about,” she said in the BBC interview.
The decision to leave it all behind for a man may raise some eyebrows among feminists, who are no doubt hoping that Markle’s track record at UN Women (where she served as an Advocate for Political Participation and Leadership), as well as her biracial heritage would give them an important ally in the fight for British women’s equal pay and efforts to combat sexual harassment, which has emerged as a serious issue in U.K. parliament last month.
But Markle’s choice to leave Suits and move across the pond has done nothing to signify that she will not be that ally. For one thing, she has been in the role of Rachel Zane for seven years—and sounds like she’s more than ready to move on. “Once we hit the 100 episode marker, I thought to myself, I have ticked this box,” she said. And stepping away from UN Women doesn’t mean she’s abandoning her commitment to furthering gender equality. In fact, with her now-global platform, she may actually be able to make a much bigger difference.
