What does Meghan really want? It's a question I've been returning to at regular intervals over the last few years. I've wondered about it during the surprise 2020 "Megxit" to the United States, while watching the sympathetically constructed 2022 docuseries "Harry & Meghan" and lately, witnessing Meghan's high-profile blitz of slenderly related new ventures. In just the past few weeks, she's launched the Netflix series "With Love, Meghan," a second podcast titled "Confessions of a Female Founder with Meghan" and a "curated collection" of jams and stuff called "As Ever." They've all received mixed reviews at large and, per usual, utterly scathing commentary on social media and in the British press. And while anyone who's ever been an actor has got to crave, if not adoration, then at least a lot of approval, Meghan seems doomed to never quite achieve that particular dream. That's why I think she could learn a thing or two from her father-in-law.

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As someone with an education in conflict and negotiation, I've been fascinated with Meghan since the rumors of her romance with the lesser-liked "spare" prince, Harry, started rumbling nearly a decade ago. The lady from "Suits," a Californian woman of color, seemed exactly the breath of fresh air the British monarchy could do with at the time. Inevitably, though, public goodwill toward her fell apart quickly. The dregs of the British Empire could barely restrain their racism and classism, and Meghan was easily cast as a convenient villain. Since then, she's consistently been treated in inexcusably appalling ways, having

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