Meghan Markle’s ‘Random Encounters’ Video Resurfaces But Receives Criticism

Meghan Markle’s “Random Encounters” video from 2013 recently surfaced online, and it received criticism.

In the romantic comedy, the Duchess of Sussex plays the role of Mindy, a woman that has a plenty of male friends. She doesn’t mind hosting sleepovers with them.

Mindy is also the lead character Laura’s best friend. The former points out all of the latter’s flaws and tells her that she should aspire for a life that similar to the lead star in “Pretty Woman.”

James Croot, a journalist, shared his opinion about the video and said that he doesn’t think that the palace will approve of Mindy’s stance in the film. The character talked about meeting gay men, which she said is an exercise in futility but not inconceivably irreversible.

Mindy also indirectly talks about her body image where she declares that she’s actually a size 2, but she typically wears size 0 so that she can feel that her clothes need to be ripped off.

At one point, Mindy almost sleeps with a male character named Kevin. Croot noted that it’s something that people may not have wanted to see because Markle is now married to Prince Harry, and she’s a member of the royal family.

“It’s a movie that does Markle’s professional reputation no favors and seems like the poster child or ‘exhibit A’ for everything that everyone has had is wrong about Hollywood in the past year’s exhumations of the industry’s demons – all wrapped up in a rom-com bow that was aimed at us laughing at what was going on,” he said.

In related news, Markle also made headlines this week after it was reported that she needs to follow a bedtime rule that has been imposed by Queen Elizabeth II. Her Majesty needs to head to bed first before the other members of the royal family could follow suit.

Sir William Heseltine, one of the Queen’s private secretaries, said that it is a “bad form” for anyone to go to bed before the monarch.

“Nobody felt it right to go to bed before the Queen did. For Diana, the long royal evenings were agony,” he said (via Fox News).