Meghan Markle left 'inconsolable' after scathing attack from 'role model'
Since meeting Prince Harry, joining the royal family and then exiling herself from the monarchy, Meghan Markle is no stranger to the spotlight.
But there was one scathing criticism that reportedly cut deeper than the rest, because the Duchess admired the author who savaged her.
Tina Brown, a former editor of Vanity Fair and Tatler, launched a searing attack on Meghan's judgement which according to another royal commentator, Neil Sean, left her "inconsolable with tears and at the same time outraged".
Brown was a friend of Princess Diana and had lunch with her just weeks before her tragic death at the age of 36. She wrote the hit biography The Diana Chronicles on her, which Meghan is thought to have read to get a better understanding of her husband's past. It comes after claims Prince Harry 'admits he is still part of the Royal Family and finally sees sense'.
Speaking on the The Ankler podcast with Janice Min last October, Tina, who also penned the bestselling book The Palace Papers in 2022, said: "The trouble with Meghan is that she has the worst judgment of anyone in the entire world. She's flawless about getting it all wrong. All of her ideas are total crap, unfortunately."
Her words were reportedly particularly hard for Meghan to hear. "According to a source Meghan was bereft because she'd admired Tina Brown and in particular read her books simply because of her connection to Princess Diana and get this because she wanted to find a better connection so she could understand her husband Prince Harry and how he felt about his mother," Neil said, according to The Express.
Tina also aired her views on Prince Harry, who she claimed was "always going to leave the Royal Family". She labelled him a "very impetuous man" and said many who worked at the Palace knew he was always going to leave the royal fold.
"He was so fragile, so combustible, he was so unhappy, frankly, in the constraints of the Royal Family," she claimed, adding: "He was terribly impressed by Meghan. He thought that she knew all. She persuaded him that she was the savvy Hollywood wheeler-dealer who could come in and make them stars and all the rest of it. And he just sort of blindly followed her like a child, really."
However she did have praise for the Duke of Sussex, who she reckoned excelled at being a Prince: "The thing about Harry is he's very good at being Prince Harry. And that's the tragedy of all of this; he is the most talented member of the royal family, without doubt, in terms of being a prince, which is all he does know how to do. He's really sort of flawless at it."
It's not the first time Tina has aired her thoughts on Meghan and Harry. She has previously said she doesn't think Diana would have approved of the couple leaving the Royal family because ultimately she supported the monarchy.
"Diana would have been very, very protective of Harry and I believe very anxious about this direction they [he and Meghan] have taken," she told the Daily Beast in 2022. She also said she didn't believe she would have been a fan of her daughter-in-law: "I think she would have felt Meghan was steering Harry in a direction that was not good. I don't think Diana would have been the great fan of Meghan that Meghan herself might perhaps imagine," she said.
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