Meghan Markle and Prince Harry stepped back from royal duties in March 2020 and are now settling into their new life in the United States. The couple recently moved into their first family home in Santa Barbara and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are due to launch their own non-profit organisation Archewell in the coming months. But what surprising career move did Meghan consider being acting?
Meghan Markle joined the Royal Family when she married Prince Harry in May 2018.
She was best known for her work as an actress before her marriage, most prominently in the role as Rachel Zane in US legal drama Suits.
However, acting was not the only career Meghan considered in her life
She studied at Northwestern’s School of Communication and attained a double major in theatre and international studies.
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After she finished studying she undertook a series of side hustles to fund herself between acting jobs.
One such role was working as a freelance calligrapher.
Speaking to Good Housekeeping in 2016, she said: “I think handwritten notes are a lost art form.”
She added she “always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well” and managed to book jobs like Robin Thicke and Paula Patton’s wedding invitations and Dolce & Gabbana’s celebrity holiday correspondence.
Surprisingly Meghan also considered a career as a journalist.
Meghan has a strong history of writing having run a successful lifestyle blog called The Tig before marrying Prince Harry.
In the blog, Meghan shared her thoughts on food, travel, fashion, and beauty.
The posts ran the gamut from recipes to celeb interviews to “an insider’s guide to London” during its three-year lifespan.
Meghan ended the blog before her marriage to Harry, but you can still find a sweet goodbye message to her readers of the blog’s homepage.
In the new royal biography Finding Freedom it has been claimed that while she was at university, she had “thought about becoming a journalist”.
In addition to running her own blog, Meghan also penned an essay for ELLE in 2015 about her experiences as a biracial woman and as part of her humanitarian work.
She also wrote about the stigma surrounding menstrual health for Time magazine in 2017.
