Meghan Markle's royal title usage ignites backlash from fans online

Meghan Markle has come under fire once again after fans mocked the way she was introduced during her latest high-profile interview.

The Duchess of Sussex appears on the December 2025/January 2026 cover of Harper’s Bazaar, where she promotes the festive edition of her Netflix lifestyle series With Love, Meghan, set for release on December 3.

In the feature, journalist Kaitlyn Greenidge described arriving to meet Meghan at a friend’s Upper East Side brownstone.

She wrote: “We’re in a grand brownstone on the Upper East Side that belongs to one of Meghan’s friends. When I enter, the house manager announces, ‘Meghan, Duchess of Sussex,’ even though we appear to be the only other two people in the house.”

Royal watchers immediately pounced on the moment, with many taking to social media to ridicule the Duchess for insisting on the use of her title, even in a private setting with only one guest.

One user on X asked: “WAIT — this is a direct quote from the interview?”

Another replied: “I bet that happens everywhere, just like her use of HRH.”

A third critic added: “M is deluded if she has her doorman calling out her title. Her royal title is worth nothing to her now, and she won't have it much longer, so why be all desperate over using it?”

Others questioned her past statements about royal titles, with one user writing: “Didn't she say in the Oprah interview that titles meant nothing to her?”

Another fan commented: “She really wants people to use that title to associate it with her and thinks the BRF wouldn't be able to take it from her then. She doesn't get that it doesn't belong to her and they can take it if they want, doesn't matter if she styles herself with it or not.”

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