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Let me start with a massive caveat – who cares?
Rest assured, not me, but the boss chose this story and it’s a Friday afternoon so we’re rolling with the punches.
By now, Meghan Markle will have grown used to hit pieces from right-wing outlets like The Daily Mail and The Sun. You can chuck The Telegraph in there, too, but we’ll get to that in a moment.
Apparently, we should care about what Andrew Pierce, consultant editor of The Daily Mail and a so-called ‘royal expert’, says about Meghan.
Come with me as we feign interest:
Netflix’s decision to ditch Meghan’s animation ‘Pearl’ before it was even made shows that the duchess’ star power is waning…
Pierce [says] that the streaming giant is working out that the royal pair ‘are not the investment they thought they were’.
‘What does it say about the fall from grace of Meghan? This contract is not even two years old and they’ve realised already that her celebrity is fading in the United States…
‘I think Netflix are working out that they are not the investment they thought they were,’ he says.
Every week, a show called Palace Confidential unpacks all the week’s royal news.
Prince Andrew and all those allegations – boring. Let’s bash Harry and Megs again!
If you can stomach it, congrats:
I trust you didn’t sit through that.
Who else is having a go at Meghan this week? The Telegraphs’ Matthew Lynn says ‘Meghan’s Netflix cancellation shows the woke streaming bubble has burst’:
Dull, worthy, preachy, and sermonising (what were the chances that the inspiring female leaders featured would include an animated Mrs Thatcher discussing the importance of controlling inflation, or indeed a CGI Queen Elizabeth I on the making of the modern world in Tudor England? I am just taking a wild guess here, but possibly not very high), it embodied the worst of Woke-flix.
It’s funny how the word ‘woke’, meaning “alert to injustice in society, especially racism”, has been weaponised as an insult.
How dare you be alert to injustice, you heathen.
That’s enough royal nonsense for the week.
