While Prince Harry and Meghan Markle seem to be enjoying their lives in the U.S. after making the decision to leave the royal family, Tina Brown, author of “The Palace Papers,” revealed that the couple has reportedly “underestimated” how difficult things would be without the support of Buckingham Palace.
“They both completely underestimated what it was going to be like to be without the palace platform,” Brown said in an interview with The Washington Post. “What the palace does, of course, it has amazing convening power, there’s no one who won’t take a phone call if they say ‘Buckingham Palace on the phone, Kensington Palace on the phone.’ Every major invitation in the world comes through that conduit. All of that is now gone,” Brown explained.
The former Vanity Fair editor went on to predict that Harry and Meghan would eventually lose their Netflix deal, but that Harry should be fine because of his work as the founder of the Invictus Games. As for Meghan, Brown is less optimistic. “Meghan doesn’t really have a brand, is the truth,” Brown stated. “You feel that she is grasping at whatever is the ‘Twitter caring’ of the moment. It’s vaccinations, it’s Ukraine, it’s women’s rights, it’s my 40th birthday, let’s have a mentoring scheme. Nothing is really going anywhere for Meghan.”
Meghan and Harry, for their part, have not responded to Brown’s comments.
