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Megyn Kelly Spots Moment in Geneva Speech That Shows 'It’s Over' for Meghan Markle

Megyn Kelly had some choice words for Meghan Markle, urging her to stop bothering people with her 'fake profundities and fake title.'

Sure, Meghan Markle has her fair share of critics—after all, she ruffled quite a few feathers when she stepped down as a senior royal six years ago. But perhaps none have been as relentless as American journalist Megyn Kelly, who rarely minces her words when discussing the Duchess of Sussex. So, unsurprisingly, after her Geneva trip on May 17, Kelly used her podcast to deliver another sharp takedown, claiming Markle bored the audience with her speech while, once again, urging her to stop cashing in on her royal status.

On her eponymous podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show, Kelly revealed that she had examined online videos of Markle's speech, in which she discussed the dangerous effects of social media on children. On that note, she scoffed, "No one is listening to her [Markle.] We have a video of a woman behind her who basically is like putting the jacket on… yawning, stretching. This is the crowd… It's the public's verdict on, we don't give a s--- about you." In a bid to advise Markle to save face in the future, she urged her to stop bothering the people with her 'fake profundities and fake titles,' saying, 'it's officially over.'

Not finished with her brutal takedown, Kelly then had some choice words about Markle's photo of Princess Lilibet in a closet. She opined, "She [Markle] posted on social media before she went, a picture of herself—this surrounded by designer clothing and Lilibet down at her feet, staring up at her mother… 'It's just me, it's me admiring me as my daughter admires me in my closet of designer clothes. This is how I want you to understand how relatable I am.'" 

Unsurprisingly, Kelly is not the only one who criticized the Duchess for her 'tone-deaf' photo before a charitable event. In an article on his Substack, The Royalist, royal correspondent Tom Sykes also believed that Markle's nonchalant display of designer clothes did not align with the humanitarian nature of her activism. He slammed, "Given what she [Markle] is doing tomorrow—appearing at an event co-hosted by the World Health Organization, an institution primarily associated with fighting disease in the developing world, an organization most people associate with vaccination drives in sub-Saharan Africa or with things like the eradication of polio—it is a staggeringly tone-deaf image." 

Sykes also noted how 4-year-old Lilibet lacked the maturity to express a desire to be kept off social media and from being exploited online. He sneered that a woman who was about to stand alongside the world's most senior public health official and talk about the measurable harms of exposing children to social media had, "for no apparent reason other than self-promotion, exposed her own child to social media." He stressed that authentic conversations around children's exposure to social media were the need of the hour and that neither the Duchess nor the Duke was the right person to do so.