The Sun’s Royal editor claimed: “Meghan’s attempt at commercially being extremely popular and making lots of money, that failed.
“[This year] Harry’s done what he’s wanted to do …[but] Meghan hasn’t really found her role. Losing Spotify will have been a huge jolt to her confidence, and also to any kind of planning by the people around her, how they want to push her back into the public consciousness. There was talk at the time that there would be other partners that could take her podcast; that hasn’t happened.”
Last month, a bombshell book titled ‘Endgame’ by Omid Scobie, who previously wrote a very supportive book about Harry and Meghan, stirred up controversy and reignited debates about race.
The Dutch version of the book pointed fingers at two royals for allegedly worrying about the skin colour of Harry and Meghan’s baby before he was born.
The royal editor mentioned that this book brought the Sussexes into the spotlight once more. He commented: “I thought they were doing really well keeping out of negative headlines…but Endgame blew that all out of the water and then all the negative headlines went back on to them. I think they are going in the right direction.”
“They are trying to market Meghan as a California girl, and I think they just need to carry on down that kinder gentler route, not having rows with the Royal Family and just enjoying their life in California. They were on their way to doing that until the two names came out in Endgame and that blew things apart.”
Katie Nicholl, Vanity Fair’s Royal editor, suggested that Harry and Meghan should concentrate more on charity work than business deals.
She said: “Whatever you think about [Harry], he is a remarkable philanthropist, and he has an incredible and unique platform, and he uses that. And I think that is when he comes into his own and does his very best work.
“But when you weigh up what [the Sussexes] have done with Archewell against what they’ve done in terms of commercial projects there’s a real imbalance there.
“If they levelled it out a bit more so they were doing more of this philanthropic work, then I think you’ll see Archewell do better, and I think you’ll see [Harry and Meghan] do better in the popularity polls because that’s what people want to see.”
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