Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Meghan

Issue dated September 24, 2018: The Duchess of Sussex


It's Meghan again this week, her 10th main cover story since her engagement was announced last November. I've had Meghan, and her trouble-causing father Thomas, on the guessing game list several times in the last few weeks, but not this week. Thomas Markle has actually been pretty quiet over the last couple of weeks, in fact, at least for the moment, everyone appears to be behaving themselves.

Based on the teaser story currently posted at people.com, this cover is more about selling magazines, which Meghan's face on the cover obviously does, than about any actual news. The article mentions her recent trip to Toronto and quotes royalty watcher/writer Ingrid Seward, who says that Harry and Meghan's upcoming trip to Australia and New Zealand will be Meghan's "chance to shine" and that "everyone will want to meet her." That's pretty weak tea. Once they return to England, at the end of October, I'm expecting that the next big news will be that Meghan's expecting.

I had been thinking that Dead Celebrity Burt Reynolds would probably be the main cover story but he only gets a sidebar, as does Serena Williams.

Last year at this time: Issue dated September 25, 2017