A studio host asks a fairly ordinary question about Meghan Markle’s ‘end game,’ and suddenly the discussion veers into the realm of operatic certainty: crown, country, conquest. That is the moment Angela Levin handed royal watchers this week — less a measured prediction than a provocation dressed up as insight.
Levin, a royal biographer, argues that Meghan has one overriding ambition in relation to the royal family. ‘The endgame is that she is queen. That’s it. Yes, I’ve said this several times. In other words, Meghan will run the country,’ she said during an appearance on TalkTV, when host Mark Dolan pressed her on what Meghan ultimately wants.
If you read that line twice, you can almost hear the intake of breath Levin is betting on. It is designed to be quoted, shared and argued over, and it works because it taps into a persistent anxiety in parts of the British press: not merely that Meghan is ambitious, but that her ambition is somehow illegitimate.
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The reality, of course, is less cinematic. Meghan is no longer a working royal, having quit royal life and left the UK with Prince Harry in 2020, and the line of succession doesn’t bend to vibes or media narratives.
Harry is currently fifth in line to the throne, a detail that makes Levin’s claim sound less like constitutional analysis and more like a kind of symbolic accusation. To put it bluntly, there are several people between Harry and the crown, and the monarchy is not a talent show where a strong brand ‘wins.’
Still, what makes Levin’s remark stick is not its plausibility. It is what it reveals about the way Meghan has been cast since the Sussexes left: as a figure onto whom people project either their hope for a modern, self-made royal narrative or their dread of one.
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There is also a strangely elastic quality to the ‘queen’ rhetoric. In the Express write-up of the TalkTV exchange, the claim is framed not simply as Meghan wanting status, but as Meghan wanting power — ‘to run the country’ — a phrase that turns a family drama into something bordering on political paranoia.
Meghan Markle wants to be queen and run the U.K., an expert claimed six years after she left the country and moved to California. https://t.co/blZhUregqr
— Wonderwall (@Wonderwall) February 6, 2026
It is worth noting what is missing from this kind of commentary. There is no concrete mechanism offered, no evidence of a plan — just the certainty of a headline-ready verdict and the familiar insinuation that Meghan’s intentions are the story, rather than the structures around her. And yet — because this is the Sussex saga — nothing exists in a vacuum.
The couple’s departure in 2020 was not a quiet retirement; it was a rupture that has played out across interviews, documentaries, memoirs, lawsuits and a relentless churn of commentary that keeps the question of motive permanently on the boil.
That churn also suits the ecosystem built around royal outrage. A line like Levin’s does not need to be true in any practical sense to be useful; it only needs to keep Meghan framed as a threat, a plot, an ‘end game’ — anything but a former working royal building a life outside the institution.
Perhaps the more honest reading is simpler, if less lucrative. The monarchy is fixed, the hierarchy is stubborn, and Meghan cannot become queen through ambition alone. But the idea that she might want too much remains a story some people cannot resist telling.