Meghan Markle is no stranger to public scrutiny and often takes it in her stride.

However, one particularly harsh critique reportedly hit harder than others, as the Duchess of Sussex thought highly of the critic.

Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and Tatler, unleashed a blistering critique of Meghan's judgement, which according to royal commentator Neil Sean, left her "inconsolable with tears and at the same time outraged."

Brown was a friend of the late Princess Diana and had lunch with her just weeks before her tragic death at the age of 36. She wrote the popular biography The Diana Chronicles, which Meghan is believed to have read to gain insight into her husband's past.

During an episode of The Ankler podcast with Janice Min last October, Tina, who also wrote the bestselling book The Palace Papers in 2022, stated, "The trouble with Meghan is that she has the worst judgment of anyone in the entire world.

"She's flawless about getting it all wrong. All of her ideas are total c---, unfortunately."

Meghan was reportedly deeply affected by Tina Brown's words, as she had always admired the author.

"According to a source Meghan was bereft because she'd admired Tina Brown and in particular read her books simply because of her connection to Princess Diana and get this because she wanted to find a better connection so she could understand her husband Prince Harry and how he felt about his mother," Neil said.

Tina also shared her thoughts on Prince Harry, saying he was "always going to leave the royal family."

She described him as a "very impetuous man" and claimed that many who worked at the Palace knew he was destined to depart from the royal fold.

"He was so fragile, so combustible, he was so unhappy, frankly, in the constraints of the royal family," she alleged, adding, "He was terribly impressed by Meghan. He thought that she knew all. She persuaded him that she was the savvy Hollywood wheeler-dealer who could come in and make them stars and all the rest of it. And he just sort of blindly followed her like a child, really."

However, she did commend the Duke of Sussex for his aptitude as a prince, "The thing about Harry is he's very good at being Prince Harry. And that's the tragedy of all of this; he is the most talented member of the royal family, without doubt, in terms of being a prince, which is all he does know how to do. He's really sort of flawless at it."

This isn't the first time Tina has shared her opinions on Meghan and Harry. She previously expressed doubt that Diana would have supported the couple's decision to step back from the royal family, as she was a firm supporter of the monarchy.

"Diana would have been very, very protective of Harry and I believe very anxious about this direction they [he and Meghan] have taken," she revealed to the Daily Beast in 2022.

She also suggested that Diana might not have been fond of her daughter-in-law. "I think she would have felt Meghan was steering Harry in a direction that was not good. I don't think Diana would have been the great fan of Meghan that Meghan herself might perhaps imagine," she added.