Former Vanity Fair Editor Delivers A Blistering Review Of Meghan Markle’s Netflix Series

LOADING ERROR LOADING British-American journalist Tina Brown has joined a growing list of media figures who have shared less-than-favorable takes on Meghan Markle’s new lifestyle series, “With Love, Meghan.” In Monday’s edition of her Substack newsletter “Fresh Hell,” Brown describes the series ― which premiered on Netflix last week ― as “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.” “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,” wrote Brown, a former editor-in-chief at Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. Noting that Markle “has never figured out a convincing persona,” she added: “Masquerading as an influencer, she’s the ultimate follower, which inevitably means she is behind the curve.” Billed as “a heartfelt tribute to the beauty of Southern California” by Netflix, “With Love, Meghan” is filmed in Montecito, where Markle lives with husband Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and their two children. “A Montecito ego trip not worth taking,” Variety wrote, while The Guardian called it “toe-curlingly unlovable TV.” In her review, Brown said “With Love, Meghan” felt out of step with the current sociopolitical climate under President Donald Trump, noting: “Trump’s America is a foulmouthed and disheveled cultural place where podcasters in sweaty T-shirts, crotch-rot jeans, and headphones achieve world domination on YouTube.” She also suggested that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would’ve been better served by waiting until Harry’s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, died to retreat from their royal duties. JAKE ROSENBERG/NETFLIX “It didn’t take a rocket scientist to know that, at age 94, the monarch clearly had only a few years more to live, at which point the family chess pieces would start to move around the royal power board,” Brown wrote on Substack.