Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have been issued a “rude awakening” over their popularity in the US, Lauren Chen has suggested.
The political commentator hit out at the pair’s efforts to wade into the media industry since their departure from royal duties in 2020.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have since produced memoirs, podcasts and documentaries addressing their time in the Royal Family.
Chen believes there is “no appetite” for the couple in the states, adding Meghan was “wrong” to believe marrying a royal would make her more popular with the American public.
Lauren Chen has criticised the couple
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“Their Spotify deal has finished, so it’s not really a question or debate whether it was successful or not”, she told GB News.
“Even with Netflix, these are deals they’ve had for years and what have they done with them?
Meghan and Harry left the Royal Family in 2020PA“The docuseries was universally panned from what I saw. There is just no appetite for what Harry and Meghan are trying to sell anymore.
“It’s going to be a rude awakening that, you can’t just be royals in America and not produce anything and expect to be loved and financed the way you might be in the UK if you are actually a respected and participating member of the Royal Family.”
Since moving to the US, the couple’s Archewell Productions company has overseen the development of several high profile media projects.
The first came through their lucrative Spotify partnership which has since ceased.
The 33-minute podcast holiday special contained a number of cameos from Harry and Meghan’s famous friends, including Elton John and Tyler Perry.
In June 2021, Meghan published her first book as part of a deal signed with publishing giant Penguin Random House.
The story was titled The Bench and arose from a poem written by Meghan which she gave to Harry as a Father’s Day gift.
Their most anticipated joint media project came in the form of a Netflix docuseries, a six parter which contained a number of explosive royal bombshells.
The show was met with negative reviews and given a 19 per cent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
It is also seen as a key reason behind the burning of bridges between the pair and the Royal Family.