Can the Duke and Duchess of Sussex be taken seriously at all anymore? Not according one royal expert who calls them the “most blissfully unaware couple.”
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle vowed that 2024 was going to be their “redemption year” after 2023 was a mess for the couple.
Last year, Spotify canceled the duchess’s podcast after one season ending their multi-million deal, a company executive then labeled the Sussexes “f****** grifters,” the two were also mocked on TV shows like South Park and Family Guy, and they ultimately ended up on The Hollywood Reporter’s “Biggest Losers” of 2023 list.
This year began with promise though and Meghan’s announcement in March that she was launching a lifestyle brand and was starring in a cooking show. But neither materialized in 2024. Her Netflix show was pushed back and isn’t slated to debut until 2025 and there’s no word on what the holdup is with the Suits star‘s lifestyle brand after she sent some of her friends jam and dog biscuits. Then in September, a scathing account from former Sussex employees was released calling Meghan a “demon boss” who barks out orders like “a dictator in high heels.”
As for Prince Harry, he tried to turn up the charm by making stops in several different cities ahead of the release of his paperback version of Spare and POLO documentary. However, the latest edition of his book is not selling well and the POLO docuseries has been slammed by critics. On top of that a new documentary, which aired recently in Germany, has really upset Meghan. Here’s more on that and why a royal expert says the duke and duchess “can’t be taken seriously anymore.”
Meghan is ‘hurt’ and feels ‘betrayed’ over what was released in documentary
The German documentary titled The Lost Prince was directed by veteran royal reporter Ulrike Grunewald. It takes a crucial look at the duke’s journey within the royal family, his and Meghan’s departure, and their current life in California. One of the pair’s neighbors who appeared in the doc said that “Meghan wasn’t an asset” to the Montecito community.
A source close to the Sussexes told OK! Magazine: “Both Meghan and Harry feel the show is yet another one-sided takedown of them and just want it all to stop. It’s like they can’t escape their past and are still being judged on things that happened over five years ago but they know it gets people talking and makes money.
“Meghan feels hurt by a lot of people — but especially her neighbors, who she feels have betrayed her by telling people this, rather than offering friendship and support. It was hard for her to make this move and have the eyes of the world on them, so she needed some friends, but obviously she was quite guarded because of what she’d been through.”
The insider added that “Meghan is very wary of getting close to people and trusting them and this documentary has confirmed she was right. There’s no denying that Meghan doesn’t have a large set of friends, but that’s because she can’t trust a lot of people.”
Commentator says Sussexes made too ‘many wrong moves’ to be ‘taken seriously anymore’
Royal commentator and To Di for Daily podcast Kinsey Scholfield believes the Sussexes brought this on themselves.
During an episode of Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered, she opined: “[Harry and Meghan] have alienated themselves. They’ve made so many wrong moves that I don’t think they’re taken seriously anymore.”
Schofield also told Talk TV that she’s “never seen a more blissfully unaware couple. Their lack of self-awareness is the only thing they should be receiving trophies for. I do think [The Lost Prince] documentary humiliated them. It magnified the fact that Harry and Meghan have had many more failures than successes since they chose to step down as senior members of the royal family.”
