Election night is over and the result is clear: Donald Trump will become the 47th president of the United States. While MAGA fans delight, one couple in particular will be wondering exactly where this news will leave them.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have steered clear of endorsing any particular candidate, and instead issued a statement via the Archewell Foundation in September, which described voting as “a fundamental way to influence the fate of our communities. At The Archewell Foundation, we recognize that civic engagement, no matter one’s political party, is at the heart of a more just and equitable world.”
It’s safe to assume, however, that like much of Hollywood, the couple leans Democrat—meaning that they’re unlikely to welcome the election result with much joy, especially given Meghan’s public denouncement of Donald Trump in the past. In 2016, before she had even met (let alone married) Prince Harry, she told a US chat show that she found Trump to be “misogynistic” and “divisive,” adding that the prospect of him in the White House left her thinking, “I might just stay in Canada.” Two months later, she went on a date with the royal who would become her husband and, three months after that, Trump was voted into office.
As a member of the royal family, Meghan was—and is still—expected to remain politically neutral. But when the next election came around four years later, she and Harry appeared in a video, urging people to vote. Harry said that they should “reject hate speech, misinformation and online negativity” (which many believed at the time to be a thinly veiled swipe at Trump) while Meghan labelled the race “the most important election of our lifetime.”
