Ex-Editor Claims Meghan Markle Challenged A Reporter For Making Vanity Fair Interview 'About Prince Harry'

Meghan Markle can't seem to catch a break as she continues to deal with more criticism following the release of her Netflix show.

This time, ex-Vanity Fair boss Graydon Carter brutally criticized her while reflecting on how she behaved during her 2017 cover story interview.

He claimed that Meghan Markle is "adrift of facts and reality," referencing how she tried to shift the spotlight onto herself when questioned about Prince Harry at the time.

Ex-Vanity Fair boss Graydon Carter took a dig at Meghan Markle while reflecting on an interaction he had with her back in 2017.

At the time, the Duchess' engagement to Prince Harry had just been announced, which led the magazine to push for a cover story with her.

However, Carter claimed to have had "no idea" who Meghan was back then and recounted how his confusion about her showed when he was approached by a staff member about the cover story.

He told Page Six, "Jane Sarkin, who booked our covers, came in and said: 'We should do a cover on Meghan Markle.' I said: 'I have no idea who that is.' She said: 'She's on Suits.' I said: 'I have no idea what that is, why should we do a story on her?' So she said: 'Because she's going to marry Prince Harry.'"

According to the veteran journalist, Meghan conducted herself in an unexpected manner during the interview for the cover story.

He described how the Duchess of Sussex abruptly challenged one of the reporters when questions turned to Prince Harry, insisting the conversation should focus on her own work instead.

"Excuse me, is this all going to be about Prince Harry? Because I thought we were going to be talking about my charities and my philanthropy," Carter recalled the Duchess' alleged remarks at the time.

While Carter didn't reveal whether or not he replied to Meghan's challenge at the time, he did respond during his interview with Page Six, saying he felt the former actress was "slightly adrift on the facts and reality."

Carter's remarks come amid continued criticism about Meghan's Netflix show, "With Love, Meghan," which debuted earlier this month.

The Telegraph's arts and entertainment editor, Anita Singh, didn't hold back, calling the show an "exercise in narcissism, filled with extravagant brunches, celebrity pals, and business plugs."

She added: "The format is this: Meghan invites people to her pretend house – the show is filmed in an $8million farmhouse down the road from her $14million home – and they tell her how amazing she is. This happens for eight episodes."

The Blast's Kristin Myers gave a critical analysis of the show, slamming the Duchess of Sussex for being "hilariously out of touch," especially after urging viewers to reach out to their local beekeepers so they could create their own candles.

Variety was equally brutal, describing the series as "a Montecito ego trip not worth taking" and accusing it of playing out like "a forced march" where guests must "praise her first" as the "price of getting to share an afternoon in a made-for-TV kitchen."

Meanwhile, The Guardian dismissed it as a "ghastly artifact of a particular cultural era that recently met its apocalypse.

"This show is sensationally absurd and trite, and if you watch it, you know it," it further claimed.

Meghan's show also received further criticism from her late mother-in-law's former biographer, Tina Brown, who is also an ex-Vanity Fair editor.

In her Substack newsletter, Fresh Hell, Brown wrote that the show is proof that the former actress has an "unerring instinct for getting it wrong."

She also claimed that Meghan has "never figured out a convincing persona" and mockingly remarked that the duchess should have focused on making a project about "what a spectacular failure the past five years have been."

Elsewhere in the newsletter, Brown also slammed Meghan's advertisement of her lifestyle brand, which launches fully later this year.

"Who announces a new lifestyle brand, American Riviera Orchard, and hounds celebrity friends to talk up her strawberry jam on social media without doing due diligence on the availability of the trademark?" Brown questioned mockingly.

Brown also claimed that the former actress is "impatient" and slammed her and her husband Harry's decision to sign a deal with Netflix after their shocking departure from being working royals.

"All Meghan had to do was shut up and wait," Brown said. "Go quiet for a couple of years, start a family, keep her eyes trained on the splendid royal real estate that would soon come up for grabs."

"The moment William ascended to his role as Prince of Wales, there would have been new global gigs and red carpet roll-outs raining down on the Sussexes' heads. But no. Offered the Commonwealth or Netflix, the Sussexes, with naïve avarice, chose Netflix," Brown further critiqued.