Where did it all go wrong for Harry and Meghan?

Even for those of us who are not well disposed towards the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, it is hard not to wish – occasionally – that they might catch a break. Yet apart from Harry’s well-judged and unostentatious appearance at the coronation, things have gone from bad to worse over the past six months for the couple. Tetchy High Court appearances; continuing estrangement with the Royal Family; and now the apparently total collapse of their wider media ambitions. Few falls from grace have been quite so swift.

Anyone who listened to Meghan’s podcast – which has been canned by Spotify – will hardly be mourning its demise, any more than the news that Netflix is seemingly no longer prepared to finance their navel-gazing to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. But the vitriol of what is being said against the pair – both on and off the record – is striking, even in the notoriously cutthroat world of American media.