Meghan Markle and Harry Are Finally Becoming Popular In America
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00:00 It's really hard to look back on it now and go, "What on earth happened?"
00:06 America loves Harry and Meghan?
00:08 Harry has even considered running for president in the upcoming 2024 election as an independent
00:15 party?
00:16 Are you kidding?
00:17 Welcome back to the good side, Prince Harry.
00:19 It seems like you've finally taken a turn for the better.
00:22 Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's popularity stunt in the US is like an episode of The
00:27 Crown, and I'm talking full of twists, turns, and the occasional family feud.
00:38 And since their move across the pond, it's been a rollercoaster ride of attention.
00:43 First, they wanted to start a podcast.
00:46 What about a Netflix special?
00:48 Then they wanted to move back to Hollywood so Meghan can act again.
00:51 And then they were broke.
00:52 And then they hated the Queen.
00:54 And then all of this stuff seems to have actually had a positive effect on their popularity
01:00 in North America.
01:01 See, after Harry and Meghan's Netflix special aired in 2022, everyone was all of a sudden
01:07 on board the Harry and Meghan train.
01:10 Choo choo!
01:11 But then it hit a speed bump.
01:12 Because in 2023, Harry's popularity was playing a bit of a limbo game.
01:19 And early on in January, it started at a negative seven in a poll where Meghan's wasn't doing
01:24 much better at a negative 13.
01:27 Yes.
01:28 And in their failed quest for their podcast glory, Harry and Meghan didn't quite top the
01:34 charts.
01:35 In fact, their lack of success was kind of a double whammy.
01:39 Because they had a tough time getting any exciting guests to join them on the podcast,
01:44 and they apparently just had a terrible work ethic.
01:46 When you mix both of those things together, it results in Spotify dropping your podcast
01:52 quicker than I can say podcast.
01:54 And after Spotify called Harry and Meghan a bunch of grifters, their public image got
01:59 another ding.
02:01 And if that wasn't enough drama, whispers started to circulate that during the Queen's
02:06 health worries and her eventual death, Harry supposedly had the audacity to call up President
02:13 Biden and ask for a VIP ride on Air Force One so he could zip over to the UK.
02:19 For which Americans didn't take that request too well.
02:23 And they actually saw this as a sign of Harry's supposed feelings of too much entitlement.
02:30 Yeah.
02:31 But lo and behold, the pair actually made some strides in a positive direction.
02:36 Because despite this royal roller coaster of negative attention, Harry and Meghan found
02:40 a silver lining through their charity work and their advocacy.
02:45 They played the do good card by sponsoring and diving into the World Mental Health Day
02:50 Festival back in New York City, where the duo even graced a special panel where they
02:56 sat down and opened up about their own mental health journeys.
03:00 On top of that, Harry's memoir Spare was released and it added some extra glamour to their public
03:06 image.
03:07 It peeled back the curtain on the royal family's off screen life and it let people see that
03:12 despite everything in the media and all the this and all the that, Harry is actually a
03:18 real person.
03:20 I swear, he's a real boy.
03:22 He might be Pinocchio, but he's a real boy.
03:25 And as the year wrapped up, whispers began about Meghan's Hollywood comeback or a revival
03:30 of her blog.
03:32 And you know, surprisingly among all this circulation, polls started to swing in the
03:38 opposite direction.
03:40 And Harry and Meghan's popularity was once again on the rise overseas.
03:44 And it looks like the Harry and Meghan show did have a plot twist overall.
03:49 Because according to a poll by Redfield and Wilton, Harry scored a plus 29 and Meghan
03:55 a plus 15 over 2023 in the same poll where they trashed it earlier on in the year.
04:03 It also revealed that millennials were the generation who most favoured the couple.
04:08 So it seems like Harry is back everyone and Meghan is reportedly trying to get her hit
04:12 show Suits to also make a comeback.
04:15 And Harry is supporting her endeavors.
04:17 Great!
04:18 What are your thoughts on Harry and Meghan?
04:20 Do you support their recent ventures in America and their spark of popularity?
04:25 Do they deserve all the bad press that they seem to constantly be surrounded by?
04:29 Let us know your thoughts in the comments and have a wonderful day from all of us here
04:35 at FTD News.