Meghan Markle’s new Netflix series, “With Love, Meghan,” has received another scathing review.
Former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown slammed the Duchess of Sussex for debuting a show about “fake perfection” in the latest edition of her Substack newsletter, “Fresh Hell.”
“With her unerring instinct for getting it wrong, Meghan has come out with a show about fake perfection just when the zeitgeist has turned raucously against it,” Brown argued in part.
“[She] has never figured out a convincing persona. Masquerading as an influencer, she’s the ultimate follower, which inevitably means she is behind the curve.”
While she took issue with various moments in the series, Brown admitted to her readers that she wasn’t a fan of the show right from the jump.
“‘With Love, Meghan’ never really recovers from its preposterous opening scene of Meghan, dressed in a veiled beekeeper’s space suit, whispering with her apiarist about the wonder of bees,” she wrote in the newsletter.
“[The show] is a testament to how far the beleaguered Duchess of Sussex has rowed herself backward in time since she first burst into the public consciousness more than eight years ago.”
The royal scribe went on to say that she believes Markle and her husband, Prince Harry, didn’t make the right choice in leaving their duties as senior members of the royal family — and moving from the UK to the US — when they did.
Brown said it would have made more sense for them to wait until Queen Elizabeth II died. The monarch passed in 2022 at the age of 96, just a few years after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex moved to Montecito, Calif.
“All Meghan had to do was shut up and wait. Go quiet for a couple of years, start a family, keep her eyes trained on the splendid royal real estate that would soon come up for grabs,” Brown argued.
“The moment [Prince] William ascended to his role as Prince of Wales, there would have been new global gigs and red carpet roll-outs raining down on the Sussexes’ heads.”
Brown further argued that Markle, 43, is “just too damn impatient” at times, as she and Prince Harry, 40, have seemingly taken every opportunity to alienate themselves from the royal family “for good.”
In addition to “With Love, Meghan,” the couple’s other recent projects have included the “Harry & Meghan” Netflix series and Harry’s bombshell memoir, “Spare.”
“Who announces a new lifestyle brand, American Riviera Orchard, and hounds celebrity friends to talk up her strawberry jam on social media, without doing due diligence on the availability of the trademark?” Brown asked her readers, referencing Markle’s recent trademark woes as a result of bad planning.
“Her ravenous quest for prestige and a supersized Hollywood halo means she is in an endless boot camp for reputation rehab.”
This isn’t the first time Brown has publicly criticized the Sussexes. She previously accused the couple of being “addicted to drama” while appearing on The Ankler podcast in October 2024.
The British-born journalist is also not the only one who gave Markle’s new series a negative review.
UK critics mercilessly tore it apart upon its release earlier this month, with some calling it “an exercise in narcissism” and “so awful it is almost compelling.”
But not everyone hates the show. “With Love, Meghan” ranked in Netflix’s Top 10, both globally and in multiple countries, and has already been picked up for a second season.
Reps for Markle declined to comment.
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