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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are having it rough this year with multiple fingers pointed at them with bullying claims in Vanity Fair‘s scathing story. Vanity Fair launched an attack on Harry and Meghan this month in an 8000-word cover story bordering on the Sussexes’ pursuit of their Hollywood dreams. The piece covered interviews with the couple’s former employees and acquaintances who have crossed paths with them since their move to the United States. The publication reportedly opted to interview third parties after Harry and Meghan declined their interview request for the bombshell cover story, a decision they may come to regret.
Since the scathing article hit the tabloids, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s reputations have taken a hit, making them subject to backlash. The resulting impact is a dampener on the chances of their Hollywood success. One royal expert has revealed where Prince Harry and Meghan Markle “stand in Hollywood” in the wake of the Vanity Fair takedown.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Headed For Hollywood Exile
Appearing on Recollections May Vary alongside host Kinsey Schofield, Daily Mail columnist Maureen Callahan weighed in on the resulting backlash and its impact on Harry and Meghan’s Hollywood dreams. She discussed the uniqueness of the Vanity Fair story, describing it as having “a lot of teeth,” unlike most publications these days. The expert added,
“Vanity Fair thought that they could take a wrecking ball to these two and just obliterate them. It tells you everything we need to know about where they stand in the industry. Whether it’s publishing, podcasting, streaming. It followed the Hollywood Reporter story, which basically said Hollywood is done with them.”
The Vanity Fair cover story titled American Hustle delved into Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s lives as royal exiles struggling to make their way in the United States and how far they’ve come five years later. In addition to the couple’s various projects and commercial deals since leaving the UK, the cover story featured interviews with various acquaintances. Among those who granted interviews with the outlet were Meghan’s ex-Spotify employees, who had nothing good to say about the duchess.
Harry and Meghan’s American Dreams Pursuit Isn’t Smooth-Sailing
These brutal recollections about their experiences working with Meghan Markle on Spotify validate a previous article by Hollywood Reporter featuring interviews with former staff who have quit on the royal couple. These ex-employees portrayed the duchess as a dictator, who “belittles people,” and never takes advice, earning her the inside nickname Duchess Difficult” among her employees.
A year prior, Harry and Meghan began their slow descent in Hollywood after a South Park episode tested the waters by comically mocking them. Their portrayal in the animated series as “perpetual victims” and “attention seekers” opened them up to more ridicule and criticism. Thereafter, many, including media outlets, could freely voice what they’d been thinking all along, each piece more brutal than the last, without fear of offending the wrong people since the protective walls had already been breached.
