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The more there is speculation about Meghan Markle's imminent jump into politics, the more her status as Duchess of Sussex, a member of the British royal family and wife of Prince Henry, sixth in line to the throne, is omitted.
And the more she works for her
ambitious American dream of hers,
the more biographers and chroniclers speculate about how things would have been if Princess Margaret, Elizabeth II's younger sister, who died in 2002, had lived.
In front of Isabel, stoic, obedient, organized, discreet and firm, Margarita was always
undisciplined, rebellious, capricious,
with a light breeze that allowed her to always look splendid and attract attention, despite having been born second, that imprecise role that It usually marks whoever gets an erratic personality.
The latter, by the way, is something that Prince Henry knows well and that the Duke of Edinburgh, the late husband of Queen Elizabeth, also experienced.
"Lilibet is my pride, Margaret my joy," King George VI confessed about his two daughters.
Margaret led the way
Margarita's biography contains enough details to debate whether her rebelliousness opened the ban on the successive scandals of the Windsors or simply breathed fresh air into so much resistance.
In the documentary 'Margaret: A Rebel Princess', its producer Chris Granlund resolves that,
if there hadn't been a princess like her, there wouldn't have been a Duchess Meghan,
divorced, mestizo, natural and with Hollywood glamor, absolutely different from the royal style and flawless from her sister-in-law, Kate Middleton.
Margarita loved as she wanted, contravening what was expected of her princely quality and without considering the consequences of leaving the institution behind.
She fell in love with an older man, married and father of three children.
She squeezed her role as second nature to her to allow herself to enjoy herself in a very public way.
With her blue eyes and curvaceous figure, from a very young age she began to flirt, shorten the length of her skirts, smoke and return to party at dawn.
His years in Mustique, the exotic Caribbean island north of Venezuela, were truly wild.
There he planted his particular bohemian paradise.
She drank, spent, had sex and bathed naked,
but she always demanded to be treated as "her royal highness" by her and with reverence.
When she returned to Buckingham, her health was failing.
Mentor of Lady Di
His difficult temperament was crucial for him to arouse empathy with Princess Diana, whom he took under his protection, according to Andrew Morton in his new book 'Elizabeth & Margaret: Intimacy with the Windsor Sisters'.
She needed to advise her and guide her in her labyrinthine clan, becoming a kind of
guardian angel.
She thanked him: "I've always adored Margo," she confided in Andrew Morton before the breakup. "I love her unconditionally and she's been wonderful to me from day one."
The pages also record how this extraordinary connection was broken the day Diana confessed her marital unhappiness in a televised interview for the BBC, in 1995. "The day I walked down the aisle of St. Paul's Cathedral I felt my personality and that the royal machinery took over me," he said.
Her frankness irritated the queen's sister.
Prince Charles, Lady Di and Princess Margaret in 1985 at Windsor Castle.Getty
Seeing betrayed, she sent him a very hurtful letter and became his most implacable critic.
She advised the queen to withdraw her titles from her, which occurred in July 1996, when she was deprived of her royal highness treatment.
"Margaret was angry and upset, so much so that after the interview
she threw out all the magazines with Diana's picture
on the cover," Morton writes.
Margaret's attitude did not soften even after Diana's death in 1997. Although in public she followed Tony Blair's advice to join the people's mourning, in private she did not stop
grumbling about the accumulation of
rotting flowers under the windows .
of Kensington Palace.
The similarities
The parallels that biographers find in some events and the life journey of these women lead us to wonder what the relationship between Margarita and Meghan would have been like today.
Would they have respected each other?
Everything indicates yes.
Writer Tom Quinn doesn't hesitate in one of his most recent posts on his 'To Di For Daily' podcast.
"I would have loved her.
They were completely in the same mold," he says.
Quinn is convinced that the princess
would have helped the rest of the royal family
to advance their positions with respect to the couple chosen by Prince Henry.
To think whether he could have prevented her escape from California or her political aspirations is too risky.
Morton, for his part, emphasizes in the new biography of the two sisters that Queen Elizabeth keeps her arms open precisely because of those similarities with Margarita.
"She has always wanted to protect
Harry, in part because she recognizes him as Margaret,
a victim of the system. Excluding Margaret did not help and the queen learned from past mistakes."
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