Meghan Markle’s demands with Vogue who dynamited his relationship with Anna Wintour: “She is not Beyoncé”
He January 20, 2020 The British royal house faced a movement that would dynamit the relationship with its most controversial successors. Marking a before and after, the Dukes of Sussex decided to leave behind their life of privileges in Buckingham Palace and separate themselves from all their real work to start a new one in the United States.
This action not only created greater discomfort in the followers of royalty in the United Kingdom, but also transformed them into celebrities under a motto of survival and overcoming. The same, caused them to be summoned in the best galas and become the most anticipated figures of the world’s red carpets. However, there is one, which generates the greatest interactions in social networks throughout the season, which they have never come; And that, in addition, they cannot step on: The New York Met Gala.
Everything happened when they broke ties with their header magazine, Vogue. And, as the Daily Mail, Meghan Markle maintained a great friendship with Edward Enninfulformer director of Vogue In its British edition. However, a failed collaboration with the magazine ended up detonating its relationship in 2022. According to the aforementioned media, Prince Harry’s wife intended to appear on the cover of the most emblematic number of the year: the September edition.
The magazine had already planned this cover with the pretty Evangelist supermodel, who made his expected return to the public eye after years of retirement. Even so, Meghan was offered in depth within the number, although limited to the digital version. However, the proposal ended up being rejected, considering that she did not meet the expectations she sought in the interview.
According to sources close to the Daily Mail, The demands of the Meghan team were so specific that they even exceeded that other great renowned celebrities could have requested. “His level of desire for details and control over media is almost like Beyoncé’s level … But she is not Beyoncé, ”they say since Condé nast in the middle. Among its conditions were The simultaneous edition in the United Kingdom and the United Statesas well as absolute control over all aspects of the report: from the choice of the photographer and the editor to the final holders. According to people from the editorial environment, these demands were described as “very complicated” and led to the same Anna Wintoureditorial director of Vogue And main president of the Met Gala, intervened.
Meghan, in an attempt to rescue the collaboration, requested a virtual meeting with Wintour to discuss the possibility of a cover shared with Prince Harry, in order to promote the One Young World Summit. However, the magazine’s calendar already contemplated Serena Williams as the protagonist of the American edition. Although Wintour agreed to keep the video call as a courtesy gesture, the decision was taken: that there would be no cover for Meghan.
This episode marked a turning point in friendship between the Duchess and Edward Enninful. Although neither of them has made public statements in this regard, in editorial circles it is assumed that The link between them was irreversibly deteriorated after the controversy. The pressure to which the then British editor was subjected, faced with petitions difficult to meet and the agenda already compromised, would have caused distancing.
Finally, after the failed collaboration with VogueMeghan Markle found a new platform to express her ideas: she appeared on the cover of The Cutwhere he promoted his podcast Archetypesin which he analyzes the stereotypes that women face in society. And, although supposedly in August last year Enninful sent flowers As reconciliation to the Duchess on the occasion of her 43 birthday, she has not seen her again as a cover of one of the most famous fashion magazines in history.
