Jack Royston has compiled the magazines that "burst" the Sussex bubble
U.S. Magazines That Burst Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's Bubble - Newsweek
1) The Cut: 'Meghan of Montecito' - Remember her "guttural noises". (August 2022)
The revelation she was returning to Instagram was indeed a big story for precisely the tabloids Meghan and Harry have been trying to avoid but she perhaps should have known The Cut would expect something of greater substance from a woman who once said she reads The Economist.
2) Variety: 'It's Well Past Time for Harry and Meghan 2.0' - (December 2022) A scathing review of their biopic for Netflix, "this one-trick pony is due for the glue factory."
3) Newsweek: 'The More Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Say, the Less Americans Like Them' (January 2023)
Around this time the magazine began polling Americans and reflected a "dramatic slump" in their popularity. This story was also after the release of Spare.
The crash may have been fueled in part by passages in which he described using his mother's favored Elizabeth Arden lip cream to treat frost bite on his "todger." Late night comedy shows gave significant airtime to ridiculing the anecdote.
4) The Hollywood Reporter: 'Why Hollywood Keeps Quitting on Harry and Meghan' Remember for the quotes "dictator in high heels" and "reduces grown men to tears." - (September 2024)
The fact the saga [Jack means the narrative of her bullying staff] had reached U.S. magazines via U.S. sources threatened to undermine the wider Sussex narrative that she was torn down out of jealousy. [Jealousy by the RF.]
5) Vanity Fair: 'Inside Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Big Business Ambitions, 5 Years After Their Royal Exit' - Remember "mean girl teenager" and the enquiry of a post divorce book. (January 2025)
The [bullying] accounts make it increasingly difficult for Meghan and Harry and their team and supporters to suggest the bullying allegations from her time at Kensington Palace were a fiction. And that is a major problem because of the nature of the narrative they put forward about why they left the monarchy.
"My father, my brother, Kate and all the rest of the family, they were really welcoming," Harry told Oprah. "But it really changed after the Australia tour, after our South Pacific tour."
"It was also the first time that the family got to see how incredible she is at the job," he added.
The narrative that the relationship between the monarchy and the Sussexes deteriorated because of jealousy is somewhat undermined, however, by the revelation Meghan was accused of bullying, which serves as a possible alternative explanation for the rift that formed.