Princess Diana’s biographer pal Tina Brown has given her brutal verdict on Meghan Markle. The former editor of Vanity Fair and Tatler, Tina claimed that the Duchess of Sussex has “the worst judgment of anyone in the entire world”.
Tina, who also penned The Diana Chronicles, made biting remarks about both Meghan and Prince Harry during a podcast, where she described Harry as “always going to leave the Royal Family “.
Ms Brown, who also authored the 2022 bestseller The Palace Papers, was thought to have been a friend of Diana’s, with the two women lunching together in 1997, just two months before the princess’ premature death at just 36-years-old, the Mirror reports.
She has previously been vocal about Harry and Meghan, labelling Megxit a ‘disaster’ and alleging that the Sussexes are “addicted to drama”. Speaking on The Ankler podcast with Janice Min, she had more blunt words for the couple.
The biographer told the host: “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.”
However, she did have some praise for Harry, stating: “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.”
The author Tina Brown described Prince Harry as a “very impetuous man” and noted that many within the Palace circles anticipated his departure from Royal duties. She remarked: “He was so fragile, so combustible, he was so unhappy, frankly, in the constraints of the Royal Family.”
Furthermore, she commented on Harry’s admiration for Meghan Markle: “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.”
In her book ‘The Palace Papers’, Brown suggests that Meghan struggled to find her place within the Royal Family, particularly after a tour to Australia which she “apparently hated every second of”.
A former palace staffer shared with Brown that Meghan considered the Royal engagements outdated and preferred to focus on her own causes. Brown writes that Meghan concluded “that the monarchy likely needed her more than she needed them,” and sought to have her status as a Hollywood leading lady acknowledged.
These revelations by Brown are contrasted by praise from several of Meghan’s former staff, including her ex-bodyguard Steve Davies, who has spoken highly of the Duchess, calling her a “good person” with a “big heart”.
Speaking last week, he remarked: “She gets a bad rap for being a not very good person to work with, that she was this evil person in the Royal Family.”
However, Mr Davies remembered her interactions with individuals from various backgrounds, “working with charities to working with dog walkers and cleaners.”
He shared that the major takeaway from Meghan was “give respect to get respect”. Additionally, he confessed that he “felt sorry for her” upon her initial entry into the Royal Family.
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