Prince Harry and Meghan Markle haven’t had the easiest time since relocating to the United States and leaving their royal privileges behind.
“It’s very sad what’s happened to them,” author Tina Brown, who has penned the books The Palace Papers and The Diana Chronicles, recently told the New York Times of the Sussexes.
The former Suits star, 44, retired from acting upon her 2017 engagement to the Duke of Sussex, 41, and then she and her husband stepped back from their royal duties in January 2020 and moved to California.
Since then, their deals with major corporations like Netflix and Spotify have appeared to underperform, and the launch of Meghan’s lifestyle and wellness brand was met with intense criticism.
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When asked about Harry and Meghan’s “rocky time being entrepreneurs,” Brown told the Times, “I have never seen anybody in professional life make as many mistakes as Meghan has, and unfortunately Harry is not the brightest bulb, either. He thought that Meghan would be his guide in the big wide world beyond Buckingham Palace, and it turns out that Meghan makes one terrible professional decision after another.”
Brown said she feels the two are “pariahs everywhere,” adding that it puts them in a “very difficult situation” because America was “supposed to be the place that paid the bills.”
She then shared her opinion on King Charles III’s younger son, who has been mostly estranged from his family — including brother Prince William — since Megxit and the shocking televised sit-down interview that followed.
“What is sad is that Harry’s very good at being a prince,” said Brown. “He’s charming, he’s upbeat, he’s attractive, he makes people happy when he walks into a room, he’s very good with young people. You could send him around the world and he’s always going to be welcomed and appealing.”
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“And I think he has realized too late that he was born to be a prince,” she continued. “And now he’s essentially just some guy doing P.R. gigs while Meghan tries out her latest cooking idea or whatever.”
Brown said that Harry’s “best decision” would be to go home and be with his family amid his father’s battle with cancer.
“I’d like to see a way for him to make amends with his family, but it gets harder and harder as the years go by,” she said. “I think that William is going to be the decider of that, and I think William has a very tough view of the whole situation, which is that the betrayal of Harry is not something that can be remedied.”
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