Prince Harry and Meghan Markle film their new Netflix series about the world of professional polo at the Royal Salute Polo Challenge at the Grand Champions Polo Club in Wellington, Florida, on April 12, 2024.
JUST when we thought it had all gone quiet on the Montecito front, up pops Meghan Markle with her exciting new venture.
It’s a Netflix series celebrating ‘the joys of cooking and gardening, entertaining and . . . ’ — wait for it — ‘friendship’.
This, from a woman who has dumped most of her pre-Harry friends as well as her entire family (apart from mum Doria) while also luring Harry away from his old friends.
A woman who has such a reputation for defriending people, there’s a verb for it in the Urban Dictionary — being ‘Markled’.
What hypocrisy for someone who dumps her besties faster than she traduces the Royal Family to lecture us on friendship.
A brief flick through the Duchess of Sussex’s friendship history reveals she began ‘ Markling’ — definition: disposing of people once you have no use for them any more — when she fell out with some of her Suits co-stars, after describing them as ‘family’.
And when she started dating Harry in 2016, she counted stylist Jessica Mulroney among her best friends. They were close for decades and Jessica attended Markle’s £200,000 New York City baby shower in 2019. Today, she’s nowhere to be seen, after getting involved in a white privilege debate, which might have tarnished Markle’s multi-racial brand.
She befriended Violet von Westenholz, a friend of Harry in her early days with the Prince, before that friendship also cooled.
Same story with Made In Chelsea’s Millie Mackintosh who is even said to have helped organise the royal wedding — but ended up not being invited.
And don’t even get me started on the way she ‘Markled’ the Royal family. Oh, and unforgivably, she slapped down the hand of friendship Catherine offered when Markle first joined the Firm.
Isn’t it striking, too, that for all her supposed trailblazing feminism this new series makes her sound like a housewife who’s got her Marigolds on?
But it’s her claim to know about friendship that really grates.
Meghan Markle wouldn’t know how to keep a friend to save her life.
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