A British royal expert has said he agrees with Tina Brown’s comments made earlier this month that Meghan Markle has the ‘worst’ judgement.
Ex-Vanity Fair editor Brown, who famously once described Megxit as a ‘disaster’ and accused the couple of being ‘addicted to drama,’ alleged that Meghan has the ‘worst’ judgement while appearing on The Ankler podcast with the media brand’s CEO Janice Min.
While at the helm of Vanity Fair, British ex editor Brown was granted close access to Prince Harry’s mother Princess Diana, gaining insight most journalists could only hope for – and famously dined with the late royal and Anna Wintour in New York just months before her death in 1997.
In her latest comments to Min, Brown hasn’t held back on her thoughts on Harry‘s wife, saying Meghan is ‘flawless about getting it all wrong’ and added that ‘all of her ideas are total crap’.
Richard Fitzwilliams – a royal expert and commentator – told MailOnline he agrees with Brown’s judgement on the Duchess of Sussex.
He said: ‘Tina Brown is highly respected journalist and royal biographer. I have consulted her brilliant study of Diana several times in the last week. She has highlighted Meghan’s terrible judgement on the prestigious Ankler podcast.’
British journalist Tina Brown, ex editor of Vanity Fair, told The Ankler podcast the Duchess of Sussex – is ‘flawless about getting it all wrong’ and added that ‘all of her ideas are total crap’
Tina Brown, who famously described Megxit as a ‘disaster’ and accused the couple of being ‘addicted to drama,’ alleged that Meghan has the ‘worst’ judgement during the podcast appearance earlier this month
Brown, who is Princess Diana’s biographer and the author of The Palace Papers: Inside The House Of Windsor – The Truth And The Turmoil, described Harry as ‘a lamb to the slaughter in this situation’ adding ‘He just sort of blindly followed her like a child, really.’
Fitzwilliams added: ‘Brown is right that Harry is led by Meghan. She is also correct in saying that the split when they left was “a disaster all round”.
‘With the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) about to begin in Samoa, we would do well to remember how Queen Elizabeth made Harry President and Meghan Vice-President of the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust.
‘They deserted these patronages and in their documentary Harry and Meghan for Netflix, had talking heads rubbishing the institution which was a form of betrayal, something that Harry, however frustrated he was with royal life, would never have done on his own.’
Fitzwilliams said Brown’s point that ‘all of her ideas are total crap’ brought to mind a reference by Meghan in The Cut Magazine that people celebrated in the streets of South Africa when she married Prince Harry in 2018.
He said: ‘Meghan quoted an individual who was never identified. He was supposed, at the 2019 premiere of The Lion King, to have told her that there was rejoicing in the streets in South Africa when they married which was similar to that when Nelson Mandela was released from prison.
Brown also noted that the couple’s exit from royal life was a ‘disaster all round’ (pictured in July)
‘With an ego like that, it is clear that Brown’s comment that Meghan “has the worst judgement of anyone in the entire world” is all too true.’
Fitzwilliams adds: ‘Brown sees Meghan’s judgement as dreadful and the facts bear this out.
‘The couple’s Charitable Foundation Archewell has made little impact, they lost their contract with Spotify and have actually done little [to] save their kiss and tell documentary, for Netflix who may not renew their contract next year. Also when she signed with the William Morris Agency in April last year, what did it lead to?’
In The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor, the Truth and the Turmoil, she said Harry and Meghan made ‘bad choices’ and could have left the royal family on far better terms if they weren’t as ‘hot-headed’ when they made the decision to step back from their roles as working royals.
Brown said the couple’s exit from royal life was a ‘disaster all round’.
Fitzwilliams concurred: ‘Brown is correct in saying that the split when they left was “a disaster all round”. As she has noted, the parting was a “disaster” as they obviously represented the contemporary face of the royal family and she notes that he can be a great success as a prince as it’s all he understands. Now he’s in exile. Their tours are “faux-royal”.’
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex share a kiss during their trip to Colombia in August
Fitzwilliams concurred with Brown and said she is ‘right’ that Harry is led by Meghan’s actions – noting the example of their Netflix docuseries which aired in December 2022
In her 2022 book, Brown also labelled Prince Harry a ‘very impetuous man’ and revealed how Palace advisers ‘always thought he would leave’
Fitzwilliams also noted the moment Meghan first opened up about her mental health struggles to ITV’s Tom Bradby during the documentary, Harry & Meghan: An African Journey in October 2019.
The broadcaster had asked the Duchess of Sussex how she had been feeling over the past few months and she admitted things had been a struggle. The couple stepped down as working royals shortly after, in January 2020.
Fitzwilliams said: ‘[Brown] has highlighted Meghan’s terrible judgement on the prestigious Ankler podcast. She has, in comment and in her biographies, emphasised the somewhat extraordinary circumstances when the Sussexes stepped down as senior working members of the royal family.
‘At the time they blindsided Queen Elizabeth and did so in the glare of worldwide publicity, which they knew would be relentless.
‘Meghan became a senior working member of the royal family when she married Prince Harry in May 2018. It was in October 2019 in South Africa that a tearful Meghan talked of how unhappy she was. She gave it less than a year and a half.’
In her 2022 book, Brown also labelled Prince Harry a ‘very impetuous man’ and revealed how Palace advisers ‘always thought he would leave’.
The author said she was told it was because ‘he was so fragile, so combustible, he was so unhappy, frankly, in the constraints of the royal family’.
The Duke of Sussex is due to release the paperback version of Spare tomorrow, which coincides with Mike Tindall’s release of his book, The Good, The Bad & The Rugby – Unleashed.
The Duke threw around many accusations about the Royal Family in Spare, along with alleging that he had a physical fight with his brother and heir to the throne, Prince William (pictured 2019)
The royal wrote that the book was ‘for Meg and Archie and Lili… And of course, my mother’.
Fitzwilliams said: ‘Harry’s memoir Spare, soon to be published in paperback, included much that was extremely ill-judged and this proves her comment that he is “fragile” and “combustible”.
‘So did the interviews he gave promoting it, which led to the couple’s expulsion from Frogmore, their base in Britain.’
The Duke threw around many accusations about the Royal Family in Spare, along with alleging that he had a physical fight with his brother and heir to the throne, Prince William.
He claimed in the book that the Prince of Wales grabbed him by the collar and threw him to the floor, while shattering a dog bowl with his back. William then allegedly declared: ‘I didn’t attack you, Harold.’
Harry also called his mother-in-law, Queen Camilla, ‘dangerous’ and a ‘villain’ in his memoir and alleged she had ‘sacrificed him’ to improve her reputation.