Overview
- The Harper's Bazaar cover profile by Kaitlyn Greenidge recounts a house manager announcing “Meghan, Duchess of Sussex” as the interviewer entered a friend’s Upper East Side brownstone.
- Daily Mail columnist Maureen Callahan labeled Meghan the “Duchess of Delusion,” casting the scene as insecure and performative.
- Royal commentator Kinsey Schofield faulted Meghan’s team for allowing the detail to remain in the story, calling it a poor judgment call.
- Commentator Lee Cohen, quoted by the Express, called the moment cringeworthy and a slight to the late Queen’s memory.
- The renewed scrutiny comes as Meghan promotes a Netflix holiday special, with critics reviving 2020 context that the Sussexes retained their titles under an understanding they would not use them for commercial purposes; no official palace response is reported.