By Molly Claire Goddard
12:57pm PDT, Sep 5, 2025
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Meghan Markle is under fire for her parenting and promotional tactics. One royal expert is lashing out at the Duchess of Sussex for sharing glimpses of her children with
Prince Harry —
Prince Archie and
Princess Lilibet — to garner attention for her Netflix series,
With Love, Meghan.
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Meghan Markle recently took to
Instagram to share multiple snaps of Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet taken during production on the second season of her Netflix show,
With Love, Meghan. Royal biographer Hugo Vickers doesn't think
Prince Harry is thrilled with the move, which was widely seen as a desperate plea for attention. "He ought to be extremely annoyed. Obviously, I don't know what he thinks, but I think he does what he's told probably," the journalist
said. "You know, what worries me much more, to be quite honest, is what the children themselves are going to think when they get a little bit older and they realize how they've been exploited."
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While Meghan Markle and
Prince Harry have been outspoken about their need for privacy, Hugo Vickers thinks the couple should look to how other leaders in England have handled their families as public figures. "I do think it's wrong. It's wrong for anyone to exploit children," the royalist said. "The situation comes with politicians … most of our prime ministers, the only time you see the children are when they're leaving Downing Street [where they live], when they sort of take them by the hand and lead them out. … Otherwise, they're kept in the background."
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Hugo Vickers also criticized Meghan Markle and
Prince Harry for their rifts with their extended families and how the strained relationships could impact their offspring. "They will also realize at a certain point that they've never met their grandfathers [
King Charles III and
Thomas Markle] and that they have cousins in England who have rather an interesting life. Something which they've been kept away from," he said.
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Despite Meghan Markle doing her best to promote the second season of her lifestyle series, it failed to crack Netflix's
top 10 in the United States and England. "I mean, all the things that she does seem to me not to be the success that she would have wished for them," Hugo Vickers said. "And therefore, she keeps, you know, coming up with new ideas, reinventing herself, reinventing things. I mean, I've never seen somebody who's changed direction quite so many times as Meghan Markle."
