Meghan Markle has 'weapon in her back pocket if she wants to seek royal revenge' - expert

Since her bombshell Netflix series with Prince Harry, Meghan Markle has reined in any criticisms of her husband's royal relatives - but one expert believes that despite appearing to look forward, she still could seek more 'revenge' on the Firm

Meghan Markle still keeps a "weapon in her back pocket" if she wants to seek 'revenge' on the Royal Family in the future, an expert has warned.

When she and Prince Harry dramatically quit as working royals in more than four years ago, the Duchess of Sussex spoke candidly about her time in the Firm and both she and Harry railed against them in their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey and their explosive Netflix series.

Since then Harry went on to release his eye-raising memoir Spare, which highly criticised the likes of King Charles and Prince William, although since the Netflix documentary, Meghan has remained quiet about her husband's family.

However, rumours have swirled about Meghan potentially following in Harry's footsteps and writing her own memoir, telling her side of the story. This speculation has been fueled after Meghan hinted in an interview in 2022 that she kept a journal during her time as a working royal.

And according to former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond, this means Meghan's option of a tell-all book is "in her back pocket". She told OK!: "It's more than two years since she gave that interview, and she has steered clear of controversy about the Royal Family since. Obviously the journal she mentioned will remain a potential weapon in her back pocket if she ever feels the need to seek some sort of revenge. But she has behaved with discretion and dignity ever since Oprah and the documentary series."

However, Jennie added: "I think she is looking forwards, not backwards and is moving on with her life. So I don't think we should be raising false alarms about any potential memoir." It seems in the past she heavily hinted she might write a book in the future after she delivered a "thinly veiled threat" in a highly-controversial interview days before the late Queen's death.

Back in August 2022, Meghan spoke to US magazine The Cut about her family life in California after stepping down from royal duties and her then podcast 'Archetypes'. Tellingly, in the interview, she revealed how she did not have to sign an NDA when she and Harry sensationally quit as working royals in 2020.

And she also told how she found a journal that she had kept during her time as a member of the Firm at Frogmore Cottage, her former UK home when she returned to Britain for the late Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations that summer. Speaking at the time, before they handed back the keys to the cottage, she said: "You go back and you open drawers and you're like, 'Oh my gosh. This is what I was writing in my journal there.'"

Speaking on True Royalty TV's The Royal Beat after Meghan's comments, Sunday Times Royal Editor Roya Nikkhah said she believed some of Meghan's comments in the interview were very telling.

She explained: "The thinly veiled threats that came in [Meghan's interview with The Cut] ...I think [she] probably hopes it does [feel threatening] to the Royal Family... [But] I think there's a lot of eye-rolling, going, 'We're used to this by now'... [But] that phrase, 'I have a lot to say until I don't' and, 'I've never signed anything that restricts me from talking'... there was a very strong inference there.

"And, of course, the reminder that she keeps a journal, and [her] revelation that, 'when we came back to Windsor, to Frogmore Cottage for the Jubilee, I rediscovered my journal that I'd left there' - I was astonished to discover that she had left a highly private diary behind in Windsor, rather than taking it back.

"She's mentioned a couple of times in the last year or two that she kept a journal, and I think there is a very strong inference that Meghan could write her own memoir."