Even Americans are growing tired of the Sussexes

With his forthcoming memoir and surrounding publicity tours, the Duke of Sussex has passed the point of no return. He is haemorrhaging friends and goodwill on both sides of the Atlantic. In the past few days, with revelations from his memoir Spare leaking like a sieve, Harry has been denounced for his indiscreet discussion of his service in Afghanistan by everyone from UK military leaders to a former British Ambassador to America – and even the Taliban.

And what of Meghan’s countrymen? Often the British media paints us Americans as blindly Sussex-loyal because we share Meghan Markle’s nationality. Yet it is becoming ever clearer that Americans are becoming as repelled by the couple’s betrayal, false narratives, hypocrisy, and narcissism as our British cousins.

Nearly two years ago on these pages and elsewhere, among my American peers, I was a pioneer expressing scepticism on this subject. But it is clear that I’m now running with the tide. When the second round of the Sussexes’ Netlix series was released, I wrote a column for America’s Fox News suggesting that, with the current trajectory of cruelty and disloyalty to Harry’s family, the pair were on course to become the most hated royal couple, and would displace the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in that regard.