Tina Brown on Harry/Meghan

[MsAmerica]

Tina Brown Thinks the Über-Rich Have It Coming
By Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Lulu Garcia-Navarro: One of your other specialties is the royal family. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are trying to make their own way in the world. They’ve had a rocky time being entrepreneurs. Do you think they have anything to offer anymore?

Tina Brown: It’s very sad what’s happened to them. I have never seen anybody in professional life make as many mistakes as Meghan has, and unfortunately Harry is not the brightest bulb, either. He thought that Meghan would be his guide in the big wide world beyond Buckingham Palace, and it turns out that Meghan makes one terrible professional decision after another. And now they’re pariahs everywhere, it seems, which is a very difficult situation for them because America was supposed to be the place that paid the bills.

What is sad is that Harry’s very good at being a prince. He’s charming, he’s upbeat, he’s attractive, he makes people happy when he walks into a room, he’s very good with young people. You could send him around the world and he’s always going to be welcomed and appealing. And I think he has realized too late that he was born to be a prince. And now he’s essentially just some guy doing P.R. gigs while Meghan tries out her latest cooking idea or whatever.

It looks more and more as if Harry’s best decision would be to find a way to come back to England. I’d like to see a way for him to make amends with his family, but it gets harder and harder as the years go by. I think that William is going to be the decider of that, and I think William has a very tough view of the whole situation, which is that the betrayal of Harry is not something that can be remedied.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/magazine/tina-brown-interview.html

She had a Netflix show 😂 they’ve learned third lesson after woeful figures, that door has closed.

Tina Brown is bang on the money here.

How much money does she make?

There arent that many nitwits keen to buy a wickless candle in the world, surely?!

Ir sold out in first time. Now she made a way bigger demand to prevent it. I don't know from where it's any failure. Good if they want to get the rich though, including Meghan and Harry. But then it has nothing to do with royal family but taxes and other thing happening in USA

Just thought this forum might find it interesting. And, considering the number of replies, I was right.

Be interesting to see how many pots of jam she sells when shes just a plain Mrs. Which will be soon. Not many people in the UK think those titles should stay and of course the UK is the relevant country in that decision. Not the US.

The walking behind the coffin when so young is an excellent example of the difficulty of making decisions that take account of both family and institution. The boys had one opportunity to walk in the cortege. Had they not done so, they would have risked regretting it for decades to come. Dreadful for them, both the decision and the walking.

The decision won’t be taken on the basis of what the public think though will it?

You think she makes her money from pots of jam?

I suspect KCIII's advisers will have found watertight ways of Harry receiving a mega legacy from pa, ringfenced in steel to keep Meghan's paws off it even in the event of a divorce. And trust funds for Archie and Lilibet too, also protected.

Oh maybe Pa has decided his traitorous ungrateful son doesn’t deserve an inheritance when he’s already burning through the millions he has already.

It probably will. You can see the Royals try to avoid public pressure but eventually have to go with it. Eg Andrew.

Well jam.and whatever else. The titles are what makes the cash.

Unlikely. Pa is a sentimental man who will not want to come face-to-face with his god having not provided for his weak, foolish ginger boy. Trustees can oversee H being paid a monthly allowance and provision can be made for him to cottage-share with Andrew.

How much cash do they make?

Who cares any more. They are pretty boring now. It used to be vaguely fun watching Meghan embarass herself (karma) but now even that has lost it's appeal. I dont even know what I'm doing on this thread about her so I will sign off now.

I agree that the RF have always been toxic and I believe Harry was always used as the fall guy to protect William and then Kate’s image.

i deeply suspect Kate was not at all welcoming. Stories of their first meetings contrast enormously with the behaviours Kate demonstrate in public. Williams descriptions confirm the stiff behaviour of Kate at the initial meetings. No hugs, formal clothes etc where we see Kate hugging everyone

But I do think Harry is very damaged (due to losing his mother and then the toxic family) and I do think Meghan is remarkable bad at reading the room, seeing outside her own self constructed image of herself and I do believe she makes terrible decisions. She goes against the advice of all the experts she hire, alienates them and then fails spectacularly. One would think she would have learned by now that she’s not very good at what she is trying to do.

It was a dreadful decision by the royal family, purely done for their own ends knowing it's was a terrible thing for Will and Harry.

One thing though, Harry was obviously younger and less important to the family than William.

They could not have predicted how batshit-insane the people lining the route would act, though. This was a custom for Royal funerals and the crowd would be somber and respectful not howling fake tears and flinging whole bouquets at the hearse.

Actually I have a relatable experience so my sympathy for Harry is very limited.

Whilst my mum’s funeral was not televised with me walking behind the coffin how about this:

My mother died from a brain tumour when I was 7 after a year of horror.

I have no siblings and had at that point never met my father as my mum had left him after just six weeks of marriage. I presume this was due to abuse but she never told me about that given my age.

I lost not only my lovely mum but my home in the country and my beloved pets, my friends, my school and absolutely everything which was familiar to me because I was sent to live with my father in a big town far away.

He was a cold, bullying and abusive monster. Physically, sexually and emotionally abusive. The emotional abuse was actually the worst thing contrary to what those who have not experienced this might expect.

My childhood from 7 till when I left home at 18 was the stuff of nightmares.

Despite this I have never treated my remaining family like Harry has.

In fact quite the opposite and I cared for my elderly aunt until she died and I even looked after my monstrous father for three months whilst he died of cancer.

I did not have Harry’s money or lovely homes or top school or a loving brother or father or grandparents.

I had zero “therapy”.

I put myself through university.
I pursued a successful and enjoyable career.
I don’t spend my life whining about my past.

I'm so sorry you had that experience, utterly awful. I just wanted to say how brave and amazing you sound and I mean that. People like you are worth admiring and I hope your life now is wonderful.

Harry the humanitarian could do with a chat with you, he might start to come into the real world.

My heart goes out to you @Sweetiedarling7

@DisforDarkChocolate think I read it was Blair’s idea. It wasn’t a great decision in hindsight but Prince Philip had walked behind his sister’s coffin so he may have thought it was ok.

My DH’s friend is a journalist and was an Editor for one of the papers obsessed with printing articles on M&H. This person confirmed that William had an affair, and that William will do it again…

At the time when the rumours were swirling around an affair - when Harry and Meghan were getting engaged and consequently married I was socialising with a couple of lawyers, one of whom was besties with a rising city lawyer who worked for the law firm used by the RF. On a very drunken night out my friend confirmed that the affair rumours were 100% true (law firm were doing the ND), and that the affair is what caused the intial fallout. This part is conjecture, but it was perceived that Meghan pushed Harry to confront William about the affair, which Harry would never had done of his own volition.

Meghan was judgemental about the affairs, and ultimately judgemental about William and Kate’s way of life. Mistake one.

Meghan is judgemental about affairs? How does she judge ending a marriage by mailing the ring to the dumped spouse?

IF this is true then it makes Harry & Meghan into bloody saints, if you ask me.