Meghan Markle’s team floated the idea of a “post-Harry divorce book” to a publisher, a damning new Vanity Fair exposé claims.
The scathing piece, published Friday, delves into the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s struggling business ventures, painting a tragic picture of a desperate couple struggling to find purpose and maintain relevance after stepping down from royal life.
Numerous former employees and associates spoke with Vanity Fair for the article, including a source who claimed “Meghan’s team had a conversation with a publishing house to gauge interest” in a book that “might center on a post-Harry divorce.”
The source didn’t divulge the date that Markle’s team proposed the idea, nor the name of the publishing house to which it was purportedly floated. Vanity Fair clarifies that “no written or formal proposal” for the book ever eventuated, while another insider disputes that the incident ever occurred at all.
While some sources defended the Duke and Duchess to Vanity Fair, the exposé also includes interviews with multiple people who worked with Markle and slammed her “bully” behavior.
Some said they were “undergoing long-term therapy after working with Meghan,” while another described her as a “‘Mean Girls’ teenager.”
One person who worked with Markle on media projects told the publication that her time with the “Suits” star was “really, really, really awful. Very painful. Because she’s constantly playing checkers—I’m not even going to say chess—but she’s just very aware of where everybody is on her board. And when you are not in, you are to be thrown to the wolves at any given moment.”
The source said Markle never screamed at any employees, but was engaged in a more subtle forms of bullying.
“It’s talking behind your back,” the person stated. “It’s gnawing at your sense of self.”
“You can be yelled at even if somebody doesn’t raise their voice. [It’s] funny that people don’t differentiate between the energy of being yelled at and literally somebody screaming at you,” they added.
Meanwhile, another stated: “I think if Meghan acknowledged her own shortcomings or personal contributions to situations rather than staying trapped in a victim narrative, her perception might be better.”
Multilpe other people who spoke to Vanity Fair confirmed that one person who worked with Markle on her “Archetypes” podcast took a leave of absence after just three episodes.
