Meghan Markle’s favorite magazine The Cut appears to have turned on her with a new article stating that her projects “continue to flop.”
The site – part of New York Magazine – published a famous cover interview with the 43-year-old duchess in August 2022, in which she made controversial comments about the royal family.
The left-wing publication now appears to have followed suit in the wake of other US media outlets turning against the couple following their smash Netflix series and the prince’s biography, Spare.
This week, The Cut published a piece titled “Harry and Meghan’s Projects Can’t Stop Flopping” by pop culture and entertainment writer Danielle Cohen — marking a very different stance than the one from two years ago.
The piece reflects on Harry, 40, and Meghan’s latest Netflix series Polo, which follows the efforts of wealthy athletes competing in the US Open, with few appearances from the Duke and Duchess themselves.
The five-part show received two stars or less out of five across the board and was passed the Telegraph and a “mostly boring take on a sport that very few people outside of elite circles have any particular interest in” by Decider.
To enrol The cutCohen admits she hasn’t seen Polo, but says it’s part of the couple’s “tortured attempts to launch a successful business in the United States.”
She continues, “It’s called Polo, and while you might think a sport with horses, fancy hats and fan-camable athletes would do well with viewers, Polo is already getting horrible reviews.
Meghan Markle’s favorite magazine The Cut appeared to have turned against her with a scathing review of Polo. Meghan and Harry were photographed in April this year
This week, The Cut published a piece titled “Harry and Meghan’s Projects Can’t Stop Flopping” by pop culture and entertainment writer Danielle Cohen
“It appears this venture will suffer the same fate as Markle’s beleaguered jam company.”
The three-paragraph review is very short – especially compared to Meghan’s lengthy 2022 cover feature.
The first piece was titled ‘Meghan Markle on Her New Life in California’ and was published on August 29, 2022.
It sent shockwaves through the royal family as Meghan said she and Prince Harry were “happy” to leave Britain and “disrupted the dynamics of the hierarchy… just by existing” before quitting as senior royals.
She claimed that what the couple was asking for when they wanted financial freedom wasn’t “reinventing the wheel.”
The article also heard from Harry suggesting that some members of the royal family are ‘unable to work and live together’, while Meghan revealed her husband told her he had ‘lost’ his father, Prince Charles.
Meghan made a series of other apparent swipes at her British family, claiming they had been treated differently to other senior royals and warning she could “say anything” in an interview promoting her Spotify podcast.
The interview sparked incredulous responses from readers in the US, with critics labeling the piece as “vanity PR” and labeling Meghan “shameless.”
Meghan’s 2022 cover interview with the magazine sparked backlash with her claims against the royal family
Meghan later admitted that she was “too trusting” and “too open” in her interview with The Cut, saying it was only to focus on her podcast, Archetypes, and her and Harry’s other projects.
In a second interview two months later with Variety, Meghan was asked about the reactions to her piece in The Cut.
When Variety writer Matt Donnelly noted that some people “found the interview snarky,” the Duchess of Sussex appeared to take aim at The Cut — and interviewer Allison P. Davis — claiming she had been too “trusting” and “open.” during the chat, adding that the interview was only to focus on her podcast, Archetypes, and her and Harry’s other projects.
“The (New York) story was meant to support ‘Archetypes’ and focus on our projects,” she said, before adding, “I’ve had some time to think about it. Part of me is just very trusting, very open – that’s how I move in the world.’
When contacted at the time by DailyMail.com, a spokesperson for The Cut declined to comment.
The Duchess of Sussex emphasized that she does not want to lose the “trusting” part of herself, adding that she can “survive” the controversy.
“I have to remember that I never want to become so jaded that that part of me disappears. So despite all these things? Forward. “I can survive,” she said.
The Cut also previously drew criticism when it published an extraordinary attack on King Charles III, calling him a “big, fussy baby and a jerk” as he walked behind his mother’s coffin at her funeral.
British brand and culture expert Nick Ede revealed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Polo (pictured) could be the ‘nail in the coffin’ for their Netflix deal
Nacho Figueras and Delfina Blaquier with Meghan and Harry at the Royal Salute Polo Challenge in aid of Sentebale in April
Harry has been playing polo for years, but the sport is far from accessible to someone with an average salary
The magazine published the article entitled: ‘King Charles’s Reign of Fussiness Has Begun’ around the time the grieving monarch, his siblings and his children accompanied the Queen’s coffin on her final journey to Westminster Hall to lie in state .
Meanwhile, Harry and Meghan’s latest album, Polo, was released earlier this week to scathing reviews.
For The Guardian’s Stuart Heritage, who awarded the series just two stars, “seems like Polo is destined to fall through the submenus into oblivion at the speed of light.”
The Telegraph Ed Power, meanwhile, noted that there were ‘not enough Sussexes to make it anything other than a dull indulgence about the pursuit of a rich person’.
After causing a storm with his bombshell Netflix documentary released in December 2022, which focused on his own family, the Duke of Sussex cuts a surprisingly subdued figure in the show, which was released on Monday.
The Prince, 40, only appears a handful of times in the five episodes, while his wife Meghan, 43, appears even less – despite both being executive producers of the series.
Harry appears in the show’s opening credits, but does not appear again until episode four, when he is merely part of a conversation with the other players.
Instead, the series focuses mainly on Adolfo and Poroto Cambiaso, Louis Devaleix, Timmy Dutta, Nacho Figueras, Keko Magrini – all of whom overshadow Harry – and the preparations for the US Open.
British brand and culture expert Nick Ede revealed that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Polo could be the ‘nail in the coffin’ for their £80 million Netflix deal.
Prince Harry, 40, who served as executive producer alongside Meghan, 43, promised the series, released worldwide this week, would showcase the “true depth and spirit of the sport” as well as the “intensity of the moments when there is a lot at stake’. .
In their first Netflix documentary, Harry and Meghan were able to say whatever they wanted and the prince took full advantage of it by delivering a series of devastating and damaging ‘truth bombs’.
However, the five-part docuseries, which revolves around the run-up to the World Polo Championship in Florida and focuses mainly on players such as Adolfo and Poroto Cambiaso, Timmy Dutta and Nacho Figueras, struggled to impress critics.
It’s a reality that Ede sees as threatening to Sussex’s Netflix deal, he told MailOnline: ‘The new polo documentary hasn’t gotten good reviews, and this is another attempt at production by Meghan and Harry.
‘All eyes will be on whether the show scores and makes the all-important top ten. It could, like the Invictus documentary, get off to a good start because of the public’s fascination with the pair and possibly with polo.
“But chances are it’s going to end badly when you’re up against blockbusters like Black Dove and safe Lindsay Lohan Christmas movies.
“This could potentially be the nail in the coffin for their deal with the streaming giant who are now using algorithms to ensure their programming is perfect for their subscribers.”
The series hardly features Harry and Meghan and has been nicknamed ‘the Nacho show’ behind the scenes because it mainly focuses on the Argentine player – also a negative for Ede.
He said: ‘With very little airtime we don’t get to see much of the pair and hardly any PR around the series either, this looks like it could be Oh No! Better than Polo!’