Meghan's NEW PLOT

The Duchess of Sussex is preparing to take her next steps on the world stage, royal author Tom Bower tells Woman

- ANNA MATHESON

We’ve hardly seen the Duchess of Sussex since she and Harry dropped their bombshell-laden Netflix series in December. Meghan, 41, was conspicuous by her absence at the coronation. Instead she was spotted hiking in Los Angeles over the weekend while her husband flew in and out of London. Other than a brief appearance at a coffee company in Santa Barbara, a video call to introduce her favoured photographer’s TED talk and a couple of date nights with Harry, she’s been largely missing from the spotlight in recent months too. In contrast, Prince Harry, 38, seems to have been courting the media everywhere he goes. Between the release of his memoir Spare in January and all its accompanying interviews and live streams, his ongoing court cases and brief appearance at the coronation, we’ve seen a lot of the duke – and according to one expert, it’s all a deliberate strategy.

Royal author Tom Bower claims that Meghan has plans to return to the spotlight with a bang, and soon; her absence only ensuring it has more of an impact. Tom is known for his no-holds-barred commentary and wrote the book Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors, in which he made a number of front-page revelations. He claimed that Meghan ‘reduced people to tears with her passive-aggressive tone’ and demanded first-class flights and fancy hotels for work before meeting Prince Harry. And he made headlines when he revealed a childhood friend claimed many of Harry’s friends believed he was ‘nuts’ for dating Meghan.