Andrew Bolt: Princess of the Woke, Meghan Markle, reveals true colours on Spotify podcast

Meghan Markle is a royal of a generation that feels owed, not owing — and her podcast has only confirmed her monstrous sense of entitlement.

Meghan Markle, Princess of the Woke, promised her new podcast would show “the real me”, and tragically for the actress it does exactly that.

Just the timing of this first episode says so much.

Markle and husband Prince Harry signed up with Spotify in 2019 when their stocks were as high as the dirt they dumped on the royals, in a deal reportedly worth between $20m and $45m.

Their pay was so gigantic that you’d assume Markle and Harry would have felt some obligation to actually sit behind a microphone in short order to earn it.

But the royals did not record a single word for Spotify all last year and this. That alone suggest a monstrous sense of entitlement.

That suggestion seems confirmed now that Spotify somehow managed to finally wrestle Markle into a studio.

Markle’s first guest in this series on famous women is tennis star Serena Williams, introduced as “my dear, dear friend … the greatest of all time!”

Serena Williams with her daughter Alexis and Meghan Markle.

You may gather already that Markle is the kind of social climber who pumps up her guests and their friendship not to flatter them but herself.

Indeed, in her glittering career on the courts, never has Williams won so many games to love.

Markle: But you are such an amazing mom …

Williams: I think you’re fearless …

Markle: You look beautiful …

Williams: I also just wanted you to just understand what it meant to have your support …

Markle: You made pregnancy looks so sexy …

Williams: I love how you, how you speak to me …

Markle: I think you’re funny!

Yes, this podcast is to tell you that Meghan Markle, the former Hollywood struggler, now has world famous friends who say nice things about her, even if she has to lubricate them with gushes of her “love” before they let it out.

Indeed, this purported interview of Williams actually has far more of Markle, who claims what she’s really doing is exploring how some women broke through stereotypes to succeed.

I don’t want to suggest she’s deaf to the suffering Williams endured on her way to also becoming mega-rich, mega-famous and mega-pampered.

Serena Williams and her husband, Alexis Ohanian, at the 2018 wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Picture: Getty Images

No, no. Markle sympathises: “In our friendship when you have to see things that are mischaracterising of me, but you experience behind closed doors the pain that I’m going through …”

It’s like that old joke: “That’s enough of me talking about myself. Now, what do YOU think of me?”

But somewhere in their chat, Markle clearly feels something is missing: even more of herself.

Williams has just told a great story of winning a match at the French Open after staying up all night. Her baby had fractured her wrist, and Williams took her to hospital and then rocked her to sleep until morning.

Well, countered Markle. That was “just like when we went on our tour to South Africa”.

And she trumped Williams with a tale that’s now made headlines around the world: “Meghan Markle Says Royal Handlers Sent Her Out to Work Right After Archie’s Room Caught Fire”.

Drama! Danger! Rotten royals!

As Markle tells it, when she and Harry went on an official visit to South Africa in 2019, they left baby Archie and his nanny “at this housing unit that they had us staying in” (in fact, the massive mansion in Cape Town of the British High Commissioner) and went off to their first public engagement.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle signed a multimillion-dollar contract with Spotify. Picture: Getty Images

They’d just wrapped up when they were told “there’s been a fire in the baby’s room”. The heater had caught alight.

But what was the fuss? The nanny had actually gone downstairs with the baby before there was any fire, if “fire” is the right word.

Still, Markle played up the drama: “Everyone’s in tears, everyone’s shaken. And what do we have to do? Go out and do another official engagement? I said, ‘This doesn’t make any sense!’”

Again, those heartless royals! This poor victim!

Markle suddenly twigs to a weakness in this life-and-death story she’s telling her “dear, dear friend”: “Oh my god, I can’t believe we haven’t talked about this!”

Hmm. Nor can I believe Markle, the relentless self-publicist, had for three years also not told it to, for instance, the authors of her approved biography or Oprah Winfrey, or any other of the reporters feeding off her scraps.

But job done.

What about me, she cried, from her mountain of Spotify gold. And around the world, millions of the woke cried with her.