MEGHAN Markle is “adrift on reality” and Diana would be furious at what she’s done, slammed the former Vanity Fair editor.
Legendary journalist Graydon Carter blasted the Duchess of Sussex, 43, despite once putting her on the cover in October 2017.
Mr Carter, who created the iconic Vanity Fair Oscars party and edited the magazine for 25 years, revealed the former actress had made a shocking request.
Meghan was best known at the time for her starring role as Rachel Zane on Suits and her relationship with Harry was still in the early stages.
Mr Carter said: “This woman is slightly adrift on the facts and reality”.
He also admitted he “had no idea” who Meghan was at the time and asked why they were doing a story about her.
According to the famous editor, someone said “she’s going to marry Prince Harry”, which saw her land the cover.
However, the Duchess wanted Vanity Fair to focus their article on her charity efforts and philanthropy.
She reportedly said during her interview: “Excuse me, is this going to all be about Prince Harry? Because I thought we were going to be talking about my charities and my philanthropy”.
The October 2017 issue was eventually finalised and called She’s just wild about Harry.
A few months later the Duke announced his engagement, and the pair tied the knot in May 2018.
Just two years alter the couple had quit the UK and settled in California.
Mr Carter, who had known Harry’s late mother Princess Diana, said: “Anytime someone comes between siblings that’s a disaster – horrible for a family.”
“I would think she [Diana] would feel great sorrow for her son to have been pulled away from his family like this, especially his brother but also his father”.
Mr Carter was the co-host of the 1994 Serpentine Gallery event where Princess Diana stepped out in her iconic ‘revenge dress’.
The revelations come as Mr Carter releases his new memoir tomorrow, When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines.
It will land on UK shelves on Thursday.
Ahead of the drop, the Vanity Fair legend spoke in depth about his career and shared stories with the New York Post’s Page Six.
While talking more about how the Duchess landed on one of his covers, he said: “Jane Sarkin, who booked our covers, came in and said: ‘We should do a cover on Meghan Markle’.
“I said, ‘I have no idea who that is”‘.
‘”She said: ‘She’s on Suits’.
“I said: ‘I have no idea what that is, why should we do a story on her?’
“So she said: ‘Because she’s going to marry Prince Harry’.”
And these are not the only remarks Mr Carter has made about the Duchess.
He said in 2023: “I would measure the duration of the marriage in years rather than decades.
“I think she has run rings around poor Harry and gotten what she wanted: notoriety, money, and a title. His usefulness to her diminishes daily.”
He added: “If there is a Real Housewives of Montecito show in the works, she’d be a shoo-in.”
This follows Gwyneth Paltrow being accused of mocking Meghan again in an Instagram video as the “war to be US lifestyle queen” rages on.
The Goop founder, 52, posted a clip of herself making scones, bacon and eggs in her own kitchen to her social media account on Saturday.
And unlike the Duchess, the 52-year-old went make-up free in her stripy PJ’s for her video.
But she used the soundtrack of This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) by Natalie Cole, which also features in Meghan‘s project.
Elsewhere Gwyneth flaunted a monogramed mug similar to the one the Duchess used in her show.
Other elements of the video mirrored Meghan’s series, including the actress showing off her jam and the clip featuring her pet dog.
She captioned her video: “My cleaner take on a classic breakfast: gluten-free buttermilk biscuits, not-so-perfectly cooked over-easy eggs, and crispy bacon #boyfriendbreakfast.”
Fans swiftly jumped to the comment section to share their thoughts.
One person said: “Love this. No fake house, fake kitchen, fake hair extensions, fake friends just your beautiful true self. Such a breath of fresh air to see.”
But another fan fought back: “Meghan does not want to be compared, nor does GP.
“They’re about unity for all women. And guess what? Gwen has never done this casual before, and Meghan has actually given a 2025 boost to goop.”
This comes after the Duchess announced episodes of her latest business venture, Confessions Of A Female Founder, will be dropping next month.
It follows the release of her eight-part Netflix series With Love, Meghan which saw her making meals and crafting with Hollywood pals.
The new podcast which succeeds her first, Archetypes, will see the mum-of-two chatting to small business owners and how they grew their empires.
This will compliment the launch of her latest re-brand, As Ever, which has so far teased products including fruit preserves and embroidered napkins.
TWO women were rushed to hospital with a mysterious illness after eating red meat.
Neither of them had suffered from food allergies before, but one was struck by a life-threatening allergic reaction just hours after her meal, while the other suffered vomiting and diarrhoea.
It was revealed that both women – from Maine and Washington in the US – had been bitten by ticks about a month before developing the bizarre symptoms.
Ticks are tiny, spider-like creatures that latch onto animals and humans and suck on their blood.
Usually active in warmer months, they’re known for carrying infections like Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis.
But in rare cases a tick bite can cause people to develop an allergy to red meat.
This is known as alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), and scientists believe hat most cases are linked to the lone star tick, a species typically found in the Eastern, Southeastern, and South-Central US.
But the two women’s cases suggest that other tick species found elsewhere in the country may also trigger potentially life-threatening allergic condition.
Between 2017 and 2022, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported about 90,000 suspected cases of AGS – with the number of new suspected cases increasing by about 15,000 each year.
The agency estimates as many as half a million Americans have AGS.
Its map of suspected cases shows high concentrations in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Kansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Tennessee as well as Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia.
But the women, whose cases were discussed in two new CDC reports, were bitten in spots that lone star ticks don’t tend to frequent – meaning many more people could be at risk of AGS.
The first was a 61-year-old wildlife biologist living in Washington, on the East Coast of the US, who “had no exposure to areas with known lone star ticks within the previous 30 years”, according to the report.
She went into anaphylactic shock – a dangerous allergic reaction – 29 days after being bitten by a tick on her shoulder while walking her dog in a wooded area in 2017.
She’d tried to remove the tick, but the bite had become infected and she’d gone to the emergency department.
Weeks later, the 61-year-old broke out in hives and began wheezing as her tongue and throat swelled, six hours after eating beef tacos.
The symptoms struck again after she ate sausages and a ham sandwich and she called 911 and was treated in hospital.
She tested positive for alpha-gal antibodies, indicating that she had AGS.
She was told to stop eating meat and avoid milk and gelatin.
Unlike Lyme disease, which is caused by a virus, AGL is an immune reaction to alpha-gal, a sugar found in most animals, including cows, horses, deer and rabbits, which also can be present in tick saliva.
Alpha-gal allergy is an unusual type of food allergy that can start with a tick bite.
It involves an allergic reaction to a carbohydrate known as alpha-gal which is found in the muscles of mammals.
Allergy to alpha-gal is rare in the UK.
When alpha-gal gets into your bloodstream, the immune system responds and makes antibodies that mark the alpha-gal molecule as ‘foreign’.
The next time you eat meat from mammals such as lamb, beef or pork – but not poultry such as chicken or turkey – the body’s immune system wrongly identifies the alpha-gal in the meat as a threat.
When this happens, the body releases chemicals, such as histamine, in response.
The symptoms of alpha-gal allergy are usually delayed, appearing three to eight hours after eating.
Mild to moderate symptoms may include:
In more serious cases, people can also experience anaphylaxis, whose symptoms include:
Not all species of ticks can cause alpha-gal allergy. Most known cases have been linked to the lone star tick which is found in southern and eastern areas of the United States.
Cases of alpha-gal allergy have also been reported in many other countries including the UK, Australia, Sweden, Italy, Germany, Japan and South Africa, and involve different species of ticks.
Source: Anaphylaxis UK
For some people, being exposed to alpha-gal through a tick bite triggers an antibody response in the body, causing them to develop an allergy to meat that can take weeks to months to appear.
The wildlife biologist reported being bitten by ticks twice more in 2020 and 2022, with tests revealing she had elevated alpha-gal levels after both.
“Had the patient not switched to a vegetarian diet, clinical experience suggests that the rise in IgE titer might have increased her chances of having an allergic reaction after red meat consumption,” the report stated.
The woman’s third bite was from an Ixodes pacificus tick, also known as the western black-legged tick, indicating the critter might also be linked to AGS.
“Although the genus Ixodes has been associated with AGS in Australia, Scandinavia, and Europe it has yet to be conclusively linked with AGS in the United States,” the CDC wrote.
“Commercial laboratories have documented alpha-gal IgE in samples from patients residing outside of the known range of lone star ticks, including in several western US states.
“Although those persons might have traveled, the possibility of local exposure cannot be excluded.
“However, observed AGS incidence in those areas appears low relative to the high number of reported Ixodes tick bites.“
The second woman, a 45-year-old from Maine, in the Northeast of the US, discovered a tick on her left bicep after walking through a wooded path.
She removed it but nine days later she was struck with stomach pain and malaise just two and a half hours after eating roasted rabbit.
After that first incident, she’d get sick a for few hours after she ate any type of red meat.
“A severe episode of diarrhoea and vomiting hours after beef consumption prompted the patient to visit a healthcare provider 20 days after the tick bite,” the CDC wrote in a report.
Tests showed elevated alpha-gal levels and the woman was told to avoid eating beef, pork and lamb.
She also cut out dairy after suffering from nausea and stomach discomfort from ice-cream and milkshakes.
Her symptoms resolved but she found two more ticks within two months of the initial episode.
When she tried to eat bacon three months later and steak seven months after that, she experienced heartburn.
However, 10 months after her first tick bite, she was able to eat steak and roast beef with no symptoms and she returned to eating red meat.
By Isabel Shaw, Health Reporter
Ticks might be small, but they pack a big punch when it comes to health risks.
The tiny critters can harbour nasty diseases that affect both humans and animals.
From Lyme disease to tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) the list of tick illnesses is extensive and can lead to serious long-term issues if not caught early.
The bloodsucking nats often latch onto their hosts while they’re out in the wild searching for their next meal.
It’s worth bearing in mind that most ticks – especially those found in the UK – don’t pass on diseases to humans. But it always pays to be cautious.
Ticks are most active in England from April to July but can be active all year round.
It’s important to check for ticks after spending time in grassy or wooded areas and to take preventive measures to avoid their bites.
To protect yourself from ticks, you can:
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