Opinion: Why it's Meghan - not Harry - we should really pity
Now they’ve been humiliated by the Hollywood showbiz bible Variety, which effectively declared the Sussexes have gone from heroes to zeros since they left the Royal Family , doesn’t there come a moment when you actually feel a bit sorry for them? Not so much for Harry, who seems to spend most of his time feeding their organic chooks, looking after the kids Archie and Lilibet and surfing on the local LA beaches.
More for Meghan, who has been trying to salvage the couple’s plummeting reputation and more importantly their finances. And boy, does she need to. Variety reports that Netflix , which gave the Sussexes a £45million five-year deal, are now ‘done’ with the ‘one-trick’ duo. Their ‘perceived pattern of selling repackaged versions of the same story about their exit from royal life has exhausted Netflix,’ it reports.
Meanwhile, their £15million Spotify deal has also gone, with bosses saying they were a couple of ‘grifters’. And yet, though I’ve been one of her harshest critics, I’d suggest Megs is in many ways a grafter rather than a grifter. She’s the one who’s been trying to salvage the Sussexes’ reputation and fortunes with her TV show, lifestyle brands and jam empire.
Harry has an occasional forlorn walk-on part, contributing little other than his royal name to the millions required to sustain their jaw-droppingly expensive lifestyle. My fear is that if the couple can’t continue to support themselves in LA, they might return to Britain to monetise their brand. Yes, I feel a little sorry for the almost venally ambitious Meghan. But not sorry enough to welcome her back to the country and monarchy she shunned with such disdain.
