Meghan Markle was savaged over her latest interview with Harper’s Bazaar, with a royal commentator saying the Duchess was trying to send a “real message” with one key detail that most people missed. The Duchess of Sussex gave an intimate interview to the US magazine’s Kaitlyn Greenidge, talking about her business, her family and her mistakes, in the December 2025/January 2026 issue.
The Daily Mail’s Liz Jones described the interview as a “waffling word salad sprinkled not with flowers but clichés, only slightly obfuscated barbs and not one pinch of self-awareness.” She said: “Honestly, Megs? You are not a kitchen-table start-up. You married a prince.”
Ms Jones blasted the Duchess for saying she was drawn to her husband, Prince Harry’s “childlike wonder and playfulness,” adding: “Do grown men and fathers, especially one who has seen combat, want to be described in such a fashion? Is she saying he’s a man-child with mummy issues?”
However, the commentator focuses on one part of the interview, and one which has sparked the most backlash recently, when the article’s writer revealed how the Duchess is addressed by staff while inside one of her pals’ homes.
Ms Greenidge wrote in the article: “We’re in a grand brownstone on the Upper East Side that belongs to one of Meghan’s friends. When I enter, the house manager announces, ‘Meghan, Duchess of Sussex,’ even though we appear to be the only other two people in the house.”
The royal commentator said the moment “speaks volumes” about how she is still clinging on to her royal links.
Meghan and Harry stepped down as senior working royals in 2020. While they still retain their titles, they have mutually agreed not to use them for commercial purposes.
Ms Jones said: “That Hallmark movie moment shouts volumes: a fake display showing that she is grasping on to the brief period of her life when she actually did deserve a magazine cover. I wonder if she wears a tiara in bed?”
She concluded: “Meghan says finally, attempting to be as sage as the ‘erbs she forages in ‘the garden’: ‘There’s no such thing as perfect. I, too, get to make mistakes.’
“Well, this interview is a great big fat one.”