Ex-Vanity Fair editor rants about Meghan Markle’s terrible judgment

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Former Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Tina Brown doesn’t hold back when the topic turns to Meghan Markle.

While promoting her new Substack newsletter, Fresh Hell, on The Ankler podcast, Brown said Markle’s ideas are “total crap,” and also put Prince Harry in her sights.

“The trouble with Meghan is that she has the worst judgment of anyone in the entire world,” the writer told host Janice Min.

“She’s flawless about getting it all wrong,” Brown added. “All of her ideas are total crap, unfortunately.”

The royal biographer described Harry as “the lamb to the slaughter in this situation.”

She added: “And he just sort of blindly followed her like a child, really.”

Brown posted her first Substack last week, describing it as a way to “unload my observations, rants, news obsessions, and human exchanges with the wildly eclectic cast of characters who populate my seething inbox.”

She’s written two posts since launching herself on the platform.

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The first was a diatribe on Donald Trump and his run for president, describing her “mounting panic” as election day draws closer, and ranting that the former POTUS “is only going to get more bizarre — engorged and energized like a gaseous exploding toad.”

Her second submission is on the Menendez brothers — “two real awful sons” spawned by a “real awful father.”

When it comes to gossip, though, Brown’s bread and butter has long been the Royal Family, from The Diana Chronicles in 2007 to her most recent book, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor, the Truth and the Turmoil, which was published in 2022.

Brown noted on the podcast that the couple’s departure as working royals was a “disaster all round.”

She said Harry was a “very impetuous man,’ insisting Palace advisors “always thought he would leave” because he was “so fragile, so combustible, he was so unhappy, frankly, in the constraints of the Royal Family.”

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex appear to be doing just fine, however.

The couple reportedly purchased a home in Portugal, not far from one owned by Harry’s cousin, Princess Eugenie, and her husband, Jack Brooksbank.