The Moment Meghan Markle Was ‘Left in Inconsolable’ Tears After She Was Snubbed by Someone She ‘Admired’
Never meet your idols is a common phrase about your celebrity role models. Even Meghan Markle had that kind of experience when it came to one of her inspirations, Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and Tatler.
Brown was a close friend of Prince Harry‘s mother Princess Diana, penned the popular biography The Diana Chronicles, and had dinner with her a couple weeks before her death. However when it came to the writer’s opinions about Markle, they weren’t so nice. “She’s flawless about getting it all wrong,” she said on The Ankler podcast with Janice Min. All of her ideas are total crap, unfortunately.”
The As Ever founder didn’t take it so lightly. Royal commentator Neil Sean told The Express that the Duchess of Sussex was left ‘inconsolable’ by her remarks. “According to a source, Meghan was bereft because she’d admired Tina Brown and in particular read her books simply because of her connection to Princess Diana and get this because she wanted to find a better connection so she could understand her husband Prince Harry and how he felt about his mother,” he said.
Brown also didn’t hold back on her opinions of Prince Harry. “He was so fragile, so combustible, he was so unhappy, frankly, in the constraints of the royal family,” she alleged, adding, “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.”
As someone who knew Diana on a personal level, Brown told the Daily Beast in 2022 that the late-Princess would be often wary of her son if she were alive today. “Diana would have been very, very protective of Harry and I believe very anxious about this direction they [he and Meghan] have taken,” she said.
“I think she would have felt Meghan was steering Harry in a direction that was not good. I don’t think Diana would have been the great fan of Meghan that Meghan herself might perhaps imagine,” she added.
