RICHARD EDEN: The ten mistakes that show Meghan has the 'worst judgment in the world'... and I reveal for the first time the one I was directly involved with

Vanity Fair’s erstwhile editor Tina Brown has described nan Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s determination to discontinue royal duties arsenic a ‘disaster’ and accused Meghan of having ‘the worst judgement of anyone successful nan full world’.

That verdict mightiness look a small harsh, but Brown is simply a royal biographer and wise counsel who met Princess Diana for luncheon conscionable 2 months earlier her fatal mishap successful Paris.

As personification who has chronicled Prince Harry and Meghan’s moves since they relocated to California, I stock immoderate of Brown’s views. So present are 10 of nan fateful mistakes that I judge nan erstwhile character has made since ‘Megxit’:

1) The Duke and Duchess of Sussex released nan bombshell announcement that they were stepping down arsenic moving royals successful January 2020 earlier they had held talks pinch Queen Elizabeth. And they had launched their flashy SussexRoyal website, having already applied to trademark 100 items including pencils and bookmarks six months earlier. This was grossly presumptuous and violative to Harry’s grandmother, who deserved nan respect she had earned done her decades connected nan throne. The precocious Queen duly banned them from utilizing nan ‘royal’ title.

2) Meghan apparently hoped that her question and reply pinch Oprah Winfrey, whom she had been courting since earlier she joined Harry, would herald her introduction to Hollywood. In fact, nan explosive sofa chat successful March 2021 whitethorn person helped extremity her chances of being embraced by America. Going connected nationalist tv to onslaught nan family she joined into, erstwhile she was already estranged from astir of her own, backfired horribly. And choosing to spell up pinch nan question and reply moreover though Prince Philip was earnestly sick successful infirmary rubbed brackish successful royal wounds.

3) Choosing to sanction their girl Lilibet, who was calved 3 months later, was a crass decision. Lilibet was nan pet sanction from puerility for Queen Elizabeth, utilized only by her closest family members. Harry and Meghan claimed that they chose it arsenic a tribute, but a palace root told nan BBC that nan Queen had not been asked beforehand. This was disputed by nan couple’s spokesman. Whatever nan case, it came arsenic small astonishment that nan Queen did not airs for a photograph pinch her great-granddaughter erstwhile she visited nan Sussex family astatine Frogmore Cottage during their sojourn for her Platinum Jubilee celebrations a twelvemonth later. She was reportedly truthful upset by Harry and Meghan’s Lilibet determination that she told aides ‘the only point I ain is my name. And now they’ve taken that’.

4) After nan duke and duchess signed their $20million (£15.4million) woody pinch audio elephantine Spotify successful December 2020, they some appeared connected nan aviator section of their podcast, on pinch a drawstring of celebrated guests, including Sir Elton John, James Corden and Tyler Perry. However, erstwhile their first podcast series, called Archetypes, was yet broadcast successful August 2022, Harry was conspicuous by his absence. Meghan’s determination to coming nan bid unsocial was a mistake. Spotify thought it was signing a powerfulness couple, not a whining erstwhile actress. The first bid was besides nan past for Spotify, pinch 1 of its executives branding nan Sussexes arsenic ‘f***ing grifters’.

5) One of nan astir striking moments successful nan six-part 2022 Netflix docu-series Harry & Meghan was nan over-elaborate curtsy which nan duchess performed to show really she had greeted Queen Elizabeth astatine their first meeting. Meghan whitethorn person intended to show really keen she was to impressment Harry’s grandmother, but it came crossed arsenic mockery. And Harry’s uneasy grimace arsenic he watched her capacity lingers agelong successful nan memory.

6) One of nan ways that Queen Elizabeth tried to make champion usage of Meghan’s talents was by inviting her to lead Commonwealth organisations, giving her an world role. Meghan was appointed arsenic vice-president of nan Queen’s Commonwealth Trust, pinch Harry made president. And erstwhile they discontinue royal duties, nan mates declared that they would proceed ‘to honour our work to nan Commonwealth’. However, their Netflix bid attacked nan Queen’s beloved Commonwealth, pinch 1 contributor labelling nan voluntary organisation of federation states ‘Empire 2.0’. As past Tory MP Sir Hugo Swire said astatine nan time, this was ‘either deliberate mischief-making aliases astonishing ignorance’.

7) Appearances astatine scenes of tragedies are ever a delicate matter for members of nan Royal Family, but Meghan’s sojourn successful 2022 to meet nan parents of victims of a schoolhouse shooting successful Uvalde, Texas, ran nan consequence of being seen arsenic a nationalist relations exercise. Instead of waiting for a honorable magnitude of clip to pass, nan erstwhile character rushed to nan segment 2 days aft nan massacre, laying flowers successful nan afloat glare of cameras. The truth that her adjacent adjutant Mandana Dayani precocious cited nan sojourn arsenic an illustration of Meghan’s compassion made it sound for illustration an effort to burnish nan duchess’s tarnished image.

8) Much thought goes into apparel worn by female members of nan Royal Family erstwhile connected duty, arsenic Meghan has publically acknowledged. So was her $7,629 (£5,891) outfit for a 2021 sojourn to underprivileged children astatine a schoolhouse successful Harlem, New York City, really appropriate? The duchess wore a $5,268 (£4,068) Loro Piana loose-fitting pyjama-style burgundy cashmere overgarment pinch matching $1,779 (£1,374) trousers and $581 (£449) Manolo Blahnik reddish stilettos. Public records show that 94 per cent of nan children astatine nan schoolhouse qualified for free meals.

9) Everyone knows that Harry and Meghan despise nan celebrated Press, but that hatred tin lead them to make foolish decisions. I contacted Meghan’s agency successful March to pass them that I planned to tally an point astir her plans to motorboat a manner institution called American Riviera Orchard. Meghan was apparently truthful hopeless for nan news not to look first successful nan Daily Mail that she instantly launched nan Instagram page for her company, complete pinch a glitzy video. Eight months later, nan institution has still not started trading immoderate equipment and liking seems to beryllium waning. A textbook illustration of really not to motorboat a business.

10) Nothing highlights nan demise of nan duke and duchess’s aspirations to beryllium a ‘power couple’ than Meghan’s solo appearances connected reddish carpets successful Los Angeles. While her Hollywood agents mightiness person advised her that she needs to beryllium seen, her royal position is diminished each clip that she competes for attraction from nan cameras pinch nan massed ranks of American stars, sometimes successful less-than-regal outfits.

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