Meghan Markle’s former friend has slammed the Duchess of Sussex for publicizing her ongoing charity work after claiming she wanted “privacy.”
TV presenter Lizzie Cundy, who struck up a friendship with Meghan in 2013, said it’s a “shame” that Meghan and Harry feel the need to document each charitable act they take on.
“Look I’m gonna be honest with Meghan and Harry. Obviously, I knew Meghan before she got with Harry,” Cundy told the Daily Star.
“I just think it’s great they’re doing their charity work, but I just think it’s a bit of a shame to have to do it with the camera crew there.”
Cundy branded their six-part Netflix documentary as a “publicity stint,” urging the couple to refrain from filming each good thing they do.
“Why are they doing it? And I just think maybe do some good stuff without the cameras there for a pat on the back,” she told the outlet.
“They haven’t been seen together for a long time and I just think this is – shall I say – a publicity stunt, possibly?”
Cundy, who no longer boasts a friendship with Meghan, went on to share some sound advice from pal and music mogul Simon Cowell.
“I think people know real things. Simon Cowell always says to me, ‘Be real because the audience can see through it,’” she said, adding, “I just think now people have seen through Meghan.”
In March, Cundy told GB News that she “really got on” with Meghan after the pair met at a charity dinner in 2013, before their short-lived friendship ultimately crumbled.
“I was friends with Meghan for a while and I really got on with her,” she said at the time. “I was asked by a friend to look after her at a charity event and I thought, ‘Who is this woman?’ No one actually knew who she was.”
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Cundy’s comments come just days after Harry was this week quietly stripped of “His Royal Highness” from his profile page.
The couple’s names were also moved toward the bottom of the family’s main page — beneath working members of the Firm but right above Prince Andrew.
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