Meghan Markle has been dealt a cutting put down by top US comedian Tim Dillon as he accused her of playing the “victim while living in a castle”.
The Duchess of Sussex, 43, stepped down as a working royal alongside her husband Prince Harry in 2020.
After splitting from the Royal Family, Harry and Meghan moved permanently to her native California and ties between the two parties have remained frosty since.
Dillon, 40, was unconvinced by the narrative of the Sussexes that they had been frozen out of the Royal Family and felt Meghan had cynically exploited a time where “there was a real cultural cachet to being a victim”.
Meghan Markle has been slammed for playing ‘victim while living in a castle’ by US comedian Tim Dillon
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“And I always found that very funny,” the comedian began while speaking with Fox News.
"I think she's a great comedic actress. I think that there was real currency in being a victim when she rose to prominence.
“She became a victim living in a castle married to a prince with the royal wedding, and I thought that was very funny,” Dillon savaged.
Continuing his barb, the comedian admitted Meghan’s PR strategy would have “been hard to pull off”.
The comedian said Meghan had exploited a time when there was 'real currency in being a victim'
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“She did it, to her credit. You know, most people that you know were putting out that they were victims during that era were, to their credit, not members of the royal family,” he sniped.
Dillon also laid into Meghan’s influence over Prince Harry.
"Harry seems like he's kind of been led around,” he observed.
The comedian added: “He kind of doesn't know what's going on... It's probably all an adventure for him, right?”
Meghan was also accused of being 'terribly authentic' by another US commentator
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Dillon’s comments echo those made by fellow US commentator and branding expert, Doug Eldridge, who described the duchess as “terribly authentic”.
He was reacting to a confession made by Meghan made on her podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder, in which she said she had been shouldered with a crushing “guilt mentality surrounding having a lot” of money since childhood.
“For Meghan, this was a tactic to try and become more relatable to her audience, but you can't fake authenticity,” Eldridge told Fox News.
“You either have it or you don't. This has been an ongoing struggle for her,” the expert observed.
The Duchess of Sussex was also slammed for using a 'perpetual victim card' by Eldridge
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The branding guru slammed the duchess’ use of a “perpetual victim card” as now having “backfired”.
Eldridge felt that her attempts to appear relatable ultimately had an inverse effect among her “target demographic,” creating further “self-inflicted” gaffes.
Seemingly, the expert appears to be onto something as Meghan has seen her popularity sink in recent months.
According to polling from YouGov, the Duchess of Sussex is now viewed positively by just 20 per cent of Britons - whilst 65 per cent see her negatively.
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Harry and Meghan have sunk in recent opinion polling
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These latest figures show only a slight change from February's survey, but mark a dramatic fall from 2019 when 55 per cent of the public viewed her favourably.
Meghan’s favourability was not much better across the pond.
Only 41 per cent of Americans polled the Duchess of Sussex positively, while a full quarter of respondents revealed they viewed her negatively.
The damming numbers leave Meghan lagging behind royals such as Princess Kate, Princess William and King Charles.
A total of 49 per cent of the 1,296 US adults polled felt positively about the Princess of Wales, while only six per cent were left with a negative impression.
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