Meghan is 'enormously shallow' for 'trying to become an instant Beyonce', Princess Diana's biographer Tina Brown says

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21-04-2025

Meghan is 'enormously shallow' for 'trying to become an instant Beyonce', Princess Diana's biographer Tina Brown says
Tina Brown made the comments during an episode of the Mixed Signals podcast
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Tina Brown has launched a savage attack on Meghan Markle, accusing her of being 'enormously shallow' and claiming the reason she's launched so many new business ventures is because she's desperate for attention.
While appearing on the latest episode of the Mixed Signals by Semafor Media podcast, the former Vanity Fair editor-in-chief, 71, said: 'Her problem is just that she is so ADD.
'She just never stops making announcements and never really follows through.'
Tina continued: 'It's like, I'm gonna do a cooking show! Nah - I'm going to be a podcaster. And hello, hello, I've got a beauty line!'
Royal expert Tina wrote The Diana Chronicles, a book about the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 2007. In 2022, she penned The Palace Papers, the inside story of the British Royal Family.
Speaking during the recent podcast, Tina added: 'It's like, just do one of those things, do it really well, and then do something else.
'She's weirdly panic-stricken in her business model.'
In the last couple of months, former Suits actor Meghan, 43, has launched her lifestyle brand, As Ever, her Netflix show, With Love, Meghan, and her podcast series, Confessions of a Female Founder.'
Tina Brown, a royal author and former editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair has criticised Meghan Markle, describing her as 'shallow' (pictured in March 2025 in New York)
'Maybe she's just so devoid of self-confidence that she's always trying to be a sort of instant Beyonce or instant Michelle Obama without the background that has built those people - you know, those very, very strong structures on which they stand. So that's really been her problem,' Tina said.
'If she'd simply succeeded at one thing, and then done another thing, she'd be in a much, much better place.
'But she's enormously shallow in her approach to the work she does.'
Tina, who is a longstanding critic of Meghan and her husband Prince Harry, 40, also spoke about the influence the Duchess.
The royal expert said: 'The thing about Meghan is she's really not bad at anything that she does.
'She has a huge influencer following. When she puts on a shirt or carries a handbag, it sells out, which means that she clearly has a following of people who really like what she stands for in some ways.
'Obviously, there are Meghan lovers and Meghan haters. The Palace just doesn't really think about Meghan anymore. It's almost like she's gone. And I think the tragic aspect is Harry.'
Tina Brown claimed she has been told that Meghan (pictured appearing in episode three of With Love, Meghan) does not take advice from anyone
She continued: 'What I hear from everyone is that she's unadvisable, and that is the issue.
'She's had a lot of good people willing to give advice to her, but what has irritated the people who do - and big people who do - is that they sit with her and they give her very good advice, and she kind of appears to be extremely motivated by it.
'And then she doesn't do it, and does something else. She's worn out her advisory circle, who just feel like, well, what's the point? She's not going to do it.
'And, unfortunately, she is the major adviser to Harry. She doesn't take advice, and he only takes hers. That's not a very good combination really for either of them.'
After With Love, Meghan was released on Netflix, Tina gave an excoriating review of the programme, declaring it is proof the former Suits actress has an 'unerring instinct for getting it wrong'.
Amid poor reviews, Tina claimed the only show that would have worked would have been one where Meghan admitted 'what a flaming flop the last five years have been'.
Meghan 'has never figured out a convincing persona' and is 'behind the curve', the journalist and royal expert added.
She claimed Meghan is 'too damn impatient,' adding: 'Who announces a new lifestyle brand, American Riviera Orchard, and hounds celebrity friends to talk up her strawberry jam on social media, without doing due diligence on the availability of the trademark?'
Tina Brown (pictured in New York in 2022) has criticised Meghan a number of times - once saying the Duchess has an 'unerring instinct for getting it wrong'
She also criticised the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's decision for choosing Netflix over a future with the Royal Family and probably steering the Commonwealth.
Writing in her newsletter Fresh Hell in March she said: 'Meghan has come out with a show about fake perfection just when the zeitgeist has turned raucously against it.
'Trump's America is a foulmouthed and dishevelled cultural place where podcasters in sweaty T-shirts, crotch-rot jeans, and headphones achieve world domination on YouTube.'
With Love, Meghan brought in barely a quarter of the viewers hooked by the documentary series Harry & Meghan in 2022, it was revealed today.
It came as Netflix's own data showed that With Love, Meghan has been more successful in Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia than in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
'It's not a runaway success', MailOnline's insider at Netflix has admitted.
The Duchess of Sussex's eight-part series was watched by 526,000 households in the first five days it was available on Netflix since its release on March 4, according to data gathered by Samba TV.
While appearing on the Mixed Signals podcast, Tina Brown also dished out her candid views on Prince Andrew and the recent controversial social media post from his accuser, Virgina Giuffre.
Tina Brown also shared her thoughts on Prince Andrew (pictured attending the Easter Sunday service in Windsor on April 20) while speaking on the podcast
Last month, Virgina, 41, shared on Instagram a shocking photo of herself in a hospital bed which she claimed was the result of a bus crash on March 24.
She wrote: 'I've gone into kidney renal failure, they've given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology.'
Tina said: 'I've always found the Giuffre story interesting... The story might be exactly as she's portrayed it, but it was a strange thing to do - to post pictures of herself black and blue on Instagram saying I have four days to live. And then it turned out that actually there hadn't been a bus crash of any particular severity.
'And she's fine, it seems. So what's that about? Does that just mean that she's currently unwell and has done this thing? Or is there another story there? I just think it deserves a good, full bodied blowout story.'
Former magazine supremo Tina added: 'I always wanted to interview the husband. Like, the story was that she left Epstein, she went to Australia, and then she never came back because she met this guy... and you never really learn the full surround.
'I don't think we've got the Epstein story wrong. Epstein was a very sinister, deeply terrible person. I don't think we got Epstein wrong.
'And I don't think we got the Andrew story wrong. I mean, Andrew is... he has the worst judgment in the world. He's an idiot. You know, he's kind of loathsome in a thousand ways.
'It's just possible, though, that he wasn't lying about Virginia Giuffre. I mean, that's one of the things in life. It's like, sometimes Trump tells the truth, you know. But the thing is he's a total liar, so why would you believe him? Sort of the same thing with Andrew.'