Tina Brown says Prince Harry and Meghan Markle underestimated the impact of leaving the royal family

“They both completely underestimated what it was going to be like without the palace platform… The palace… has amazing convening power… every major invitation in the world comes through that conduit.” – Tina Brown

[ceilconstante]

Princess Diana didn't need a PR firm when she lost her HRH. She wasn't a Narscist. She genuinely cared about people. Many came forward to tell how she helped them personally by talking and listening.

[lelaparker]

They could have left without trying to destroy the RF. That's what destroyed the reputation. People don't want liars and mean people working for them

[ashaharcharan]

They believed so much in themselves that they started to lie, being petty, professional victims and greediness overload!!!

Privacy is the new PAY ATTENTION TO ME!

[snowysnowyriver]

They also underestimated how much they would become despised in Great Britain. But that's what happens when you throw a beloved Queen and her much respected husband under the bus while he is on his death-bed. It's also what happens when you arbitrarily accuse an entire Commonwealth of 54 Sovereign Nations of racism and colonialism. And when you tell lie after lie after lie. Even the Archbishop of Canterbury had to call them out on their lies. So many reasons why they are not (and never will be again) welcome in Great Britain.

[gracetailor]

basically they (especially MM) gave up the better position and now they are in the pit with everyone else. It is sad that her greed led her to drop the better long term option. They will fizzle out in the pit.

[audreykennedy]

Mostly they overestimated themselves. An absurd amount of selflove.

[spicerack]

Tina, please spell out specific actions that made H an impressive soldier. Word has it, he was protected by squads of other soldiers and he played video games all day. He walked away from an important and solemn Marine event, left them high and dry and chose to go to a soiree instead, so he could ask a Disney executive that night for a job for MM. Not one friend from the old military days will speak to him or speak up for him. He let MM takeover Invictus and you think he is a good sponsor for them? Piffle. Trevor Coult, MC on Youtube, could bring you up to speed on H's real military career, not the myth that is pumped out to protect him. Plus, getting paid to be a sponsor for veterans and merchandising for your own Archehole foundation is absolutely trash and vulgar. Kinda like making money from your dead mother's image. The Archeholes are beyond redemption.

[franhildebrand]

It’s too bad MM couldn’t leave Harry alone to do the Invictus Games. She ruined the whole event just so she could have the spotlight. She doesn’t realize everything isn’t about her. Such a shame.

[annerleighharrison]

"He was a brilliant soldier" and "The vets are in his bloodstream" ?? REALLY? Clearly Tina Brown has never listened to Trevor Coult MC, or any of the other army veterans who actually served with Harry. They tell a somewhat different story. If this is the standard of research and conclusion Tina Brown deploys in her book, it won't be worth reading.

[janetgreen]

It does make me laugh when people like Tina Brown comment on not liking palace life, the pettiness etc!! What would Markle know about anything?!?! She breezed in, filled her swag bag full of perks and privileges and, shot out the back door! This woman has no knowledge of the Monarchy and its workings; the Royal Family and its duties and service and, the country and what it expects from the Monarch, down. She did not and, will not, ever fit in to the role with which she could have done so much good.

[hazelt]

H&M are trying to spread themselves too thin and not finishing anything. The deals will soon dry up if they don't produce any work

[rethacarriere]

H was not a real soldier..protected and never in danger.

[bevhowarth]

Agree with Tina, he should focus on the Invictus Games…trouble is, Harry’s wife now seems to be hijacking that for her own aggrandisement.

[trustmemysonisadoctor]

Haz and MeMe overestimated their value inside and outside of the Royal Family.

[michaeljones]

"Struggling for relevance" 3 most important words in that interview

[helenjob]

The queen was correct when she said there was no part time role for members of the Royal family. The Invictus games showed that. I am not aware of any working Royal being paid an appearance fee for going to an event of the charity they are patrons of. Neither do they turn up with a Netflix crew in tow. Neither do they offer 'free' and useless taster sessions for a service that pays them a percentage of profits (Better up is a money making entity that retains Harry and this was a thinly disguised marketing tool). Also, Meghan arrived with a wardrobe costing approximately 88k us dollars and paraded in that in front of veterans and their families who probably struggle along on disability allowance when an Invictus t shirt and jeans would have been much more acceptable and shown some insight into how ordinary people live. The Invictus games were copied from the US warrior games and until Meghan came along Harry had found his niche in this particular charity. He looked happy and animated, full of empathy and understanding. This last games was all about Harry and Meghan and their Netflix interest. Ugly and disgusting. And the felony was compounded by Harry blabbing to a us journalist about how he is his grandmother's special grandson and is concerned that she doesn't have the right people around her (to be kind, I think he means prince Andrew but it's her choice and he, at least doesn't trash his family whatever else he may have done). I would be amazed if he comes back to the UK with his family in tow for the jubilee as a Netflix crew would not be welcome. The security issue as he calls it is a very scanty figleaf which doesn't cover anything after his trip to the Netherlands, a rodeo and ballgame and a very public evening meal in a country where people have guns under their driver's seat legally. Has he forgotten JFK and John Lennon? It's completely ridiculous that he thinks he's safer in the USA than in the bosom of his Royal Family, surrounded by a ring of security steel. No, prince Harry looks shifty, miserable and mendacious. He seemed happy until the love bombing phase of his relationship ended and Meghan started exerting her power. What sort of expectant mother threatens to kill herself (her statement on Oprah) to get her own way? She couldn't cope with the reality of Royal life which, though very privileged, comes with enormous responsibility and even more demands on personal time. It's a way of life for life. She didn't have the stomach for the lower rank behind Charles, Camilla, William and Katherine. Her wedding she considered to be a 'spectacle' which was a ridiculous, celebrity strewn affair with only one member of her own family. Harry's closest friends we're not included in the evening party as she got to work isolating him from people who could see through her. Poor, deluded, unhappy Harry in my opinion.

[pegpeg]

I believe that them grasping at every straw to stay in the royal fold is because the celebrity route isn't working. They need the royal connection.

[rivertdove]

She thoight she was better than the roysl family, ,, well now she's learning the truth

[dorischong]

Harry copied the Warrior Games. No original ideas from this couple.

[gisele.]

Nobody was that concerned about H and his wife leaving for a life in the US, but the Oprah interview, peppered with lies, innuendo, and the tragic timing of it, turned any fair minded viewer against them. It was their 'characters' that did them in.