LOL, I’ve had so many “she didn’t need Cory” anons and, yup, it turns out she totally used Cory to social climb.
The personable chef mingled easily with these major social players at his restaurant, and rubbed shoulders with them at charitable galas and other events. So when Meghan became his girlfriend, he provided her with a passport into the most influential echelons of Toronto society – a clique whose connections spread far beyond Canada.
And it was this quantum leap – from actress to glittering social butterfly, and then, by dint of her campaigning work with organisations such as the United Nations and World Vision – that brought Meghan into the orbit of royalty.
Columnist Shinan Govani, Toronto’s most in-the-know social observer, met Meghan ‘many times’ and recalls throwing a dinner party she attended with her new beau. ‘She was just a cable actress to me and didn’t mean much,’ he told me. ‘Cory is a friend of mine – a lot of people know him. He is a swell guy, and pretty much liked by everyone. He would be invited [to top gatherings] by dint of his talent and personality. Within the confines of the city, being with him was definitely a useful platform for her. He would be bigger in terms of the Establishment of Toronto. He would be leverage for Meghan.
’A lot of TV shows have been shot in Toronto, but you don’t often see someone like Meghan up on the billboards. She was different in that respect [and] I feel like if she had never come to Toronto she wouldn’t be marrying Prince Harry. There was something about coming to Toronto, becoming friends with the Mulroneys, and having a high social cachet. It was the perfect storm that created the opportunity.’
Did Govani think Meghan deliberately engineered her social elevation? ‘All of life is deliberate. I think she took advantage of the opportunity that came her way. It was a case of serendipity; opportunity meets luck. There was something inside of her that wasn’t content with just being an actress. I mean, what would have happened after Suits? She wasn’t getting any younger.’
Yet all this is hindsight. Back in the summer of 2014, before the doors slid shut on her relationship with Cory, Meghan was blissfully happy with her lot. Indeed, life ‘had never felt so good’. She declared as much in her quirky blog, The Tig, which she had launched that year with the aim of further raising her profile.
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