<p id=”par-1_61″>What a difference a few weeks makes for <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/meghan-markle/?swcfpc=1″>Meghan Markle</a>. After starting the year being dubbed a “<a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/prince-harry-meghan-offended-firing-back-being-dubbed-disaster-tourists-took-morbid-fire-tour.html/”>disaster tourist</a>” for visiting areas in and around LA County devastated by the California wildfires, the Duchess of Sussex was dealt another blow when out of nowhere a blistering report about her and Prince Harry’s lives in America was published in <a href=”https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/prince-harry-meghan-markle-cover-story-2025″ target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Vanity Fair</a>. </p>
<p id=”par-2_37″>For the magazine’s February 2025 cover story, the publication heard from several people who said they “needed therapy” after working with Meghan because of her brutal treatment towards her staffers, saying she’s “really, like, a <em>Mean Girls</em> teenager.” </p>
<p id=”par-3_41″>Those allegations were reminiscent of another story a few months prior in which <a href=”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/hollywood-keeps-quitting-prince-harry-meghan-markle-1235996963/” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>The Hollywood Reporter</a> spoke to members of the “Sussex Survivors Club” who called the duchess a “<a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/meghan-markle-dictator-high-heels-reduce-grown-men-tears-report.html/?swcfpc=&swcfpc=1″>dictator in high heels</a>” and labeled her a “<a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/new-claims-say-meghan-markle-not-just-dictator-high-heels-also-demon-boss.html/?swcfpc=1″>demon boss</a>” who has “psycho moments.”</p>
<p id=”par-4_58″>But that was then. Now, all everyone is talking about is the duchess’s new lifestyle show <em>With Love, Meghan</em> on <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/netflix/?swcfpc=1″>Netflix</a> and her As Ever product line that is set to launch soon. One person who knows the royals well and also used to head Vanity Fair shared more than a few thoughts about Meghan’s business ventures. </p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-former-editor-comes-down-hard-on-meghan-for-not-staying-quiet”>Former editor comes down hard on Meghan for not ‘staying quiet’</h2>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-1″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”” class=”wp-image-3788605″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>(L): Tina Brown discusses her best-selling book ‘The Diana Chronicles | Jeff Fusco/Getty Images,’ (R): Meghan Markle speaking at a forum in Bogota, Colombia | Juancho Torres/Anadolu via Getty Images</figcaption></figure>
<p id=”par-5_60″>Tina Brown is the former editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and the founder of The Daily Beast. She was also one of Princess Diana’s confidants who met with the royal mere weeks before <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/these-were-princess-dianas-last-words-before-she-died.html/?swcfpc=1″>Diana died following a car crash</a> in Paris. Brown, who later authored the princess’s biography titled <em>The Diana Chronicles</em>, shared her thoughts on <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/prince-harry-was-able-to-marry-meghan-markle-because-she-didnt-do-this-1-thing-in-her-past.html/?swcfpc=1″>Prince Harry’s wife</a> and her decisions.</p>
<p id=”par-6_29″><a href=”https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/2025752/meghan-markle-netflix-tina-brown-vanity-fair” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Express</a> noted that in her newsletter <em>Fresh Hell</em>, Brown wrote: “Meghan has come out with a show about fake perfection just when the zeitgeist has turned raucously against it.” </p>
<p id=”par-7_50″>Brown went on to claim that the <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/meghan-markle-getting-residual-checks-suits-surprise-streaming-success.html/”><em>Suits</em> alum</a> is and always has been “too damn inpatient” saying: “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?”</p>
<p id=”par-8_19″>Brown insisted that Meghan’s mistakes go back to when she wanted out of the U.K. and stepped down. </p>
<p id=”par-9_85″> “All Meghan had to do was shut up and wait,” the former editor said. “Go quiet for a couple of years, start a family, keep her eyes trained on the splendid royal real estate that would soon come up for grabs. The moment [Prince] William ascended to his role as Prince of Wales, there would have been new global gigs and red carpet roll-outs raining down on the Sussexes’ heads. But no. Offered the Commonwealth or Netflix, the Sussexes, with naïve avarice, chose Netflix.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-meghan-was-upset-by-brown-s-past-comments-about-her-choices”>Meghan was upset by Brown’s past comments about her choices</h2>
<figure class=”wp-block-image” id=”emb-2″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Meghan-Markle-Screenshot-from-Harry-Meghan-Netflix-documentary.webp?strip=all&quality=80&strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”Meghan Markle Screenshot from ‘Harry & Meghan’ Netflix documentary” class=”wp-image-3731394″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Meghan Markle screenshot from ‘Harry & Meghan’ docuseries | Netflix</figcaption></figure>
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<p id=”par-10_36″>This isn’t the first time Brown has spoken out publicly about Meghan’s “poor decision-making.” During an appearance on <em><a href=”https://theankler.com/p/tina-brown-on-trump-harris-and-our?r=23exy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>The Ankler</a> </em>podcast with Janice Win, Brown insisted that the Duchess of Sussex has terrible judgment and doesn’t take advice.</p>
<p id=”par-11_66″>“The trouble with Meghan is that she has the worst judgment of anyone in the entire world,” Brown said. “She’s flawless about getting it all wrong. She really is. Her issue is that she doesn’t listen. She has all these people, asks them their opinion, and then doesn’t follow it. She does what she wants to do. And all of her ideas are total crap, unfortunately.”</p>
<p id=”par-12_35″>Brown’s comments were said to have really upset Meghan as royal expert Neil Sean told <a href=”https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1965984/meghan-markle-tina-brown-vanity-fair” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Express</a>: “Meghan was bereft because she’d admired Tina Brown and in particular read her books simply because of her connection to Princess Diana.”</p>