Harry and Meghan: everything we learned from the Vanity Fair 'take-down'
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It was a week of curiously timed press potshots aimed at errant royal couple Prince Harry and Meghan Markle – or Princess Markle, as one American news anchor accidentally called her. The Princess of Wales invited the media along to a hospital visit where she announced she was in remission (despite having said she was “cancer-fee” back in September 2024) and recommended “loads of sunlight” as a cancer recovery necessity (despite chemotherapy, notably, making patients painfully photosensitive). Prince William arranged a visit to an airbase, but cancelled due to “weather”. And King Charles visited a food bank via helicopter.
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All attempts one might (ungenerously) suggest were designed to keep Harry and Meghan out of the headlines, or at least paint the Duchess of Sussex in a bad light. Meghan was due to launch her new Netflix cooking-and-hosting show, With Love, Meghan, on January 15, but she chose to postpone until March due to the devastating impact of the Los Angeles wildfires.
![[Meghan Markle]](https://static.standard.co.uk/2024/12/05/11/34/Meghan-Markle-lfb16upq.jpeg?quality=75&auto=webp&width=960)
Furious fans have branded it a “hit piece” and a “takedown”, but in reality it’s a much more nuanced take on the tiring phenomenon of celebrities moving into creative industries (podcast making, documentary producing) where they have little expertise and experience beyond being super attractive and very famous. Still, there were plenty of eyebrow-raising reveals to be read.
Here are the biggest bombshells from the piece, in a write-around’s write-around:. The piece is very clear that Harry and Meghan are still extremely warm for each other’s forms, seven years and two babies since their wedding. “They are so hot for each other,” a person close to Harry and Meghan told Vanity Fair. “Like, you know how you meet those couples where you’re like, the way they’re looking at each other, I should probably not be here right now?”.
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