The Queen reportedly offered to let Meghan keep acting part-time

A royal biographer has claimed Meghan was extended an unprecedented offer from the Queen before she and Harry stepped down.

Meghan rejected an offer from the Queen to travel the world as a royal ambassador while continuing her acting career, it was claimed yesterday.

Royal biographer Andrew Morton claimed the ex-star of American legal drama Suits was given the unprecedented part-time option to keep her happy.

But she and Prince Harry opted for a clean break in the US, with the pair most recently giving a bombshell Oprah Winfrey interview.

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Royal author Andrew Morton said the Queen gave Meghan the option to continue working as an actress. Picture: AFP

He said they were told they can go ‘wherever they please’. Picture: AFP

Morton, whose blockbuster biography of Princess Diana rocked the monarchy in 1992, said his sources told him that Meghan, 39, and the Duke of Sussex, 36, were offered the ultimate royal dream ticket by his devoted and dutiful grandmother.

He told the Royally Obsessed podcast: “They were told, ‘Here are your first-class tickets, pick which country you want to go to, we’re going to make you youth ambassadors for the Commonwealth.’

“In fairness to the royal family, in fairness to the Queen, she did give them that opportunity to go wherever they pleased.

“And also, they did say to Meghan, ‘If you don’t want to embrace royal duties full-time please be our guest and continue your acting career.’

“Those opportunities were open to her.”

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Meghan Markle as Rachel Zane in Suits.

Morton also cast doubt on Meghan’s claims during the Oprah interview that palace pressure turned her into a virtual prisoner after her wedding.

He said: “There were all kinds of discrepancies in the interview.

“Friends of mine have seen Meghan walking from Whole Foods Supermarket on Kensington High Street taking bags of food back to Kensington Palace.

“It didn’t seem too much like a prison.

“Others have seen her out and about at restaurants and phoned saying, ‘You’ll never guess who I’m sat next to.’

“She seems to me to have led a normal life yet, the way she put it, her passport and her keys were taken from her.

“Yet she was able to go to New York on a private jet to celebrate a baby shower and make some eight overseas trips – without wearing handcuffs.”

This article originally appeared on The Sun and is reproduced here with permission