{"id":251147,"date":"2025-11-08T11:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/251147\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T11:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:42:08","slug":"meghan-markle-blasted-over-calculated-and-dangerous-move-after-shock-hollywood-return-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/251147\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle blasted over &#8216;calculated and dangerous&#8217; move after shock Hollywood return | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renae Smith, founder of PR agency <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/theatticism.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Atticism<\/a>, criticised the Duchess\u2019s team for making the timing of the announcements appear intentional and described the move as \u201ccalculated and dangerous\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The PR specialist told the Express: \u201cI\u2019ve actually always defended her before. I\u2019ve never believed she\u2019s sitting at home with the royal diary open, plotting counter-announcements. But it\u2019s happening so often now that it\u2019s hard to keep calling it a coincidence.<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">\u201cWhether intentional or not, someone on her team seems to be tracking royal moments and slotting her headlines in alongside them. It\u2019s starting to look calculated, and that\u2019s dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cIf it is intentional, it\u2019s a bad play. When your public narrative starts to look like it\u2019s competing with someone else\u2019s, you lose control of your own brand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if it\u2019s not deliberate, perception becomes reality, and right now, that perception is that Meghan\u2019s always trying to upstage the royals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I were advising her team, I\u2019d say please pull back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Duchess\u2019s return to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/hollywood\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood<\/a> will see her play herself in Jason Orley&#8217;s Close Personal Friends, which boasts Lily Collins, Brie Larson, Jack Quaid \u2014 son of Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid \u2014 and Brit Henry Golding among its cast.<\/p>\n<p>The film is about two couples\u2014one famous and one not\u2014who meet in Santa Barbara and become fast friends, and Meghan is reportedly going to make a cameo appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Renae Smith, founder of PR agency The Atticism, criticised the Duchess\u2019s team for making the timing of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[79648,104665,96,59,123,104663,100,104664,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-251147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-earthshot-prize","tag-earthshot-prize-awards","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-hollywood","tag-hollywood-return","tag-meghan-markle","tag-pr-controversy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}