{"id":301694,"date":"2025-11-22T15:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T15:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/301694\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T15:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T15:38:06","slug":"meghan-markle-slammed-for-cringeworthy-and-swivel-eyed-behaviour-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/301694\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle slammed for ‘cringeworthy and swivel-eyed behaviour’ | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meghan Markle<\/a>\u2019s latest fiasco over being announced by a member of staff<\/a> when simply meeting with a journalist for an interview was scrutinised by a royal commentator who dubbed the moment \u201ccringeworthy\u201d and a prime example of the Duchess\u2019s \u201cswivel-eyed behaviour\u201d. The Duchess of Sussex met with Harper\u2019s Bazaar\u2019s Kaitlyn Greenidge for an interview at one of her pals\u2019 homes in New York.<\/p>\n

The interview was conducted for the US magazine\u2019s December 2025 issue, which features the Duchess on its cover. Ms Greenidge wrote of their encounter: \u201cWe\u2019re in a grand brownstone on the Upper East Side that belongs to one of Meghan\u2019s friends. When I enter, the house manager announces, \u2018Meghan, Duchess of Sussex,\u2019 even though we appear to be the only other two people in the house.\u201d But despite Meghan still retaining her royal title<\/a> even after quitting the Royal Family five years ago, fans were not impressed with its use and were quite critical on social media.<\/p>\n

Now, a royal commentator spoke about the incident and mocked Meghan for \u201ccosplaying a duchess in someone\u2019s living room\u201d.<\/p>\n

Lee Cohen, a US-based columnist\/royal and foreign policy commentator, told the Express: \u201cThis is so cringeworthy that it could be another South Park episode.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s the kind of tone-deaf, ego-stroking nonsense that makes you wonder if she’s auditioning for a role in her own bad fantasy fiction.<\/p>\n

\u201cA borrowed Upper East Side brownstone, and the only ‘crowd’ is a bemused journalist from Harper’s Bazaar. Yet here comes the house manager, piping up like a Buckingham Palace footman: “Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.” To a couple of people… Not a ballroom full of dignitaries. Was she trying to turn a casual chat into a full-blown state entrance?\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Cohen added: \u201cMarkle’s out here cosplaying a duchess in someone’s living room, pathetically clinging to that ‘Duchess of Sussex’ label like it’s her last Birkin, a slap to the beloved late Queen’s memory. <\/p>\n

\u201cLaughter is the kindest reaction to such swivel-eyed behaviour. If she wanted to be announced like royalty, she had already burned down the stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cNext time, try a doorbell. The crowd and crowns aren’t coming back; it’s just embarrassing echoes in an empty room.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another expert said the Duchess\u2019s announcement broke protocol because it should have been the journalist who was announced and not the other way around.<\/p>\n

Veteran royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams, who is also an etiquette expert and former editor of The International Who’s Who, told the Daily Mail: \u201cI have often felt that Meghan took to heart Oscar Wilde’s dictum, ‘To love oneself is the beginning of a lifetime’s romance’.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo this breaks protocol. It also makes her look silly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle\u2019s latest fiasco over being announced by a member of staff when simply meeting with a journalist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134,137759,155269,172362,162243,33664,172360,172359,155261,155262,155260,172361],"class_list":["post-301694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-harpers-bazaar","tag-harry-and-meghan","tag-harry-and-meghan-latest","tag-harry-and-meghan-news","tag-meghan-markle","tag-meghan-markle-harpers-bazaar","tag-meghan-markle-interview","tag-meghan-markle-latest","tag-meghan-markle-latest-news","tag-meghan-markle-news","tag-meghan-markle-title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}