When Meghan and Harry were still working members of the royal family, they embarked on a highly successful royal tour of Australia and the South Pacific. In Grigoriadis’ Vanity Fair story, which looks at the breakdown in Meghan’s relationship with her father, Thomas Markle, and her older half-siblings, she offered an example of the duchess’ self-mythologizing. “She has this warped reality and then she marshalls evidence underneath it to support a thesis that may not be the case.” “What we know now about her is that she has a sort of a strange relationship to objective reality,” Grigoriadis said. To do that, she worked hard in high school and college, struggled to make it in Hollywood, aggressively courted press attention as a B-list cable TV actor and crafted narratives about her life that are not necessarily aligned with “reality.” Grigoriadis agreed that the latter is a very Hollywood thing to do. In a conversation with ex-BBC journalist Andrew Gold for his On the Edge podcast, Vanessa Grigoriadis explains why Meghan is the product of her upbringing in a dysfunctional family on the fringes of Hollywood, the world’s so-called dream factory.Īs Grigoriadis explained in the podcast and in her Vanity Fair story, the wife of Prince Harry is an ambitious “striver” who has long sought to be “a household name” and to rise above her family’s middle-class but unconventional “shaggy-dog tale” existence. A Vanity Fair writer who was “ahead” of the curve for American journalists doing critical examinations of Meghan Markle opened up this week about what she’s learned since profiling the American Duchess of Sussex in 2018.
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