‘America has grown bored’ of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry as ‘open secret’ is revealed
It’s been a tough month for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, with the couple enduring speculation about the state of their marriage, before their latest Netflix show flopped
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have had a tough month, facing rumours about their marriage after several solo appearances. They returned to the limelight with their new Netflix show, Polo, in early December, but it didn’t make the headlines they were hoping for.
Even The Cut, a magazine once favoured by Meghan, published a harsh review titled ‘Harry and Meghan’s Projects Can’t Stop Flopping’. Writer Danielle Cohen criticised the couple’s “tortured attempts to launch a successful Stateside endeavour”, which she said continued with the release of Polo.
“Seems like this one is bound for the same fate as Markle’s beleaguered jam company,” she wrote. The negative response to the couple’s recent projects has raised questions about their future plans and roles. When Harry and Meghan first moved to Montecito after leaving Royal duties, they were warmly welcomed. But now, the mood appears to have shifted.
As Maureen Callohan pointed out in the Daily Mail: “America has moved into a new phase of this relationship. We no longer even rubberneck with these two. We have become utterly uninterested. And that’s the death knell for Brand Sussex.”, reports The Mirror.
Taking a swipe at the couple’s recent Netflix series and Prince Harry’s memoir, ‘Spare’, she said: “Was it fun to hate-watch their first Netflix series, Meghan mocking her curtsy to the Queen, Harry looking on mortified, both of them bitching endlessly? Of course! Was dissecting ‘Spare’, with its humiliating revelations about Harry’s frozen ‘todger’ and his mother’s face cream as the ultimate salve, a guilty pleasure? You bet.”
However, she claimed that the US has lost interest, saying: “However, just as the opposite of love isn’t hate, but indifference, America has grown bored.”
She continued: “We’ve heard and seen it all. We’ve become that guest at the party cornered by the griping dullard that nobody wants to talk to, looking haplessly about for a more sparkling conversationalist. Or at least a top-up on the Champagne.”
US Royal commentator Lee Cohen also weighed in on the couple’s dwindling popularity in the States, saying that while they once “epitomised a modern fairy-tale”, America’s love affair with them has “significantly cooled”.
He wrote in The US Sun: “Harry and Meghan just love to complain. And in America’s largely optimistic society, that is a bad look. While some view the couple’s openness as a brave stance against institutional rigidity, many others perceive it as ungrateful and divisive.”
“A segment of Americans, particularly those of us who respect and admire the monarchy, find these repeated criticisms disrespectful and unbecoming. So the Sussexes’ endless narrative of grievance has alienated many who once admired their candour.”
Adding insult to injury, Montecito neighbour Richard Mineards didn’t hold back in the German doc Harry – The Lost Prince, slamming the Duchess: “I personally don’t think that Meghan is an asset to our community,” he dished out. “She doesn’t really go out or get involved with the community. Harry has to a certain extent, because he’s quite jolly… but Meghan doesn’t seem to get seen anywhere… And you don’t see him either.”
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