Meghan Markle is facing a backlash after delivering a ‘boring’ speech at the opening of the One Young World summit in Manchester.
Late last week, Meghan and Harry made a joint trip back to the UK for the first time since the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee back in February.
After arriving in Britain, the Duchess of Sussex took to the stage of the One Young World summit to deliver a keynote speech in which she addressed the young delegates from around the world and told them they are the “present and the future.”
In her message to the world, the Duchess gushed over her experience of becoming a mother and recalled the 2014 moment she was asked to become a counselor for the organization.
While the Duchess refrained from taking a jab at the Royal Family this time, she wasn’t spared from harsh criticism by royal experts who branded her speech as boring and unpractical.
“There was a severe lack of content in what she was saying,” Royal author Phil Dampier said in a statement to MailOnline as he suggested Meghan was just acting when she opened her speech saying she was happy to be back in the UK.
“She was using her acting skills when she made the comment about being back in the UK. She clearly launched a PR offensive having received hostility from the British press.
Mr. Dampier added: “If she met most members of the public in the UK she wouldn’t get good reception, but on stage with an audience that tends to be on her side – or is inclined to support her – she could get away saying very little and being applauded for it.”
Taking a jab at the duchess was also Royal author and biographer Robert Jobson who dubbed Meghan a “first-class orator” and suggested what Meghan says should be taken “with a pinch of salt” after all the allegations she made about her in-laws – the Royal Family.
“There is no doubt that Meghan is a first-class orator. She speaks with passion and engages her audience. I’m sure she is thrilled to have her voice back!” Jobson told MailOnline.
“I’m sure too that after all the attacks she has made against the Queen and the British royal family Her Majesty leads, that her comment saying that it is good to be back in the UK should be taken with a pinch of salt.”
Jobson further insisted that Meghan’s rhetoric resembles that of someone preparing to take on a political role in Congress or Senate before suggesting she will likely have to give up her title as duchess should she pursue political ambitions in the US.
“But to do that I think she must ditch the royal ‘duchess’ title that is linked to a system and a family she appears to despise,” the author added.
“If she did that it might placate some people in the UK who feel both Harry and Meghan should be stripped of their royal title.
“But as they use their links with royalty to promote themselves I doubt she and her princely born husband will ever do that.”
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