Kate Hawkesby: Harry and Meghan have brought this all on themselves and only have each other to blame

Harry and Meghan have rarked me up more than usual lately. I think it’s because the delusion now seems so embedded, that their lost grip on reality has lost more and more of us along the way. I mean, how do we keep up?   People often misinterpret me when I comment on Harry and Meghan, so let me be as clear as I can. I wish them no ill will. I, like many others was happy for them to pull the plug on royal life and disappear into the private quiet life they said they so desperately craved. No problem with that at all. My problem with them stems from all the hypocrisy that followed.  It turned out it wasn’t so much a private life they were after, but a very publicised lucrative flogging of the royal family to anyone who would listen and pay top dollar. But the spleen venting has gone on and on and on to the point now where the Prince is even doing live on-air diagnoses with a trauma specialist. This is where Chris Rock comes in.  For the second time in a month, Harry and Meghan have been ridiculed on television in America. First South Park, now Rock’s Netflix special. And a comedian ridiculing them, while expected in Britain where their popularity has plummeted through the floor, is a bad turn of events in America, their specially chosen home land, where celebrity, adoration, Netflix specials and book deals were meant to flow their way like matcha lattes.  Chris Rock called them out for acting like victims, he said crying to Oprah about racism was a mistake – it wasn’t racial abuse they were facing he said, but rather standard internal family drama. He warned against victim culture and people with privilege so easily grabbing the victim tag, and what that does to undermine real victims.  But the bit that took the cake for me, was this latest report out of the British press that the Sussexes are worried King Charles will never get to build a real relationship with their children Archie and Lilibet, unless they get another UK based royal home. Do they even stop for a second to consider the irony and hypocrisy of that?  They’re worried that the grandchildren that they removed from the UK, that they took away from the royal family, which they chose to move to America, that they chose to lob grenades at the grandparents of won’t have a real relationship because they got evicted from Frogmore? Give me a break. Any damage to the relationship has been done and is continuing to be done, by Harry and Meghan themselves.  The fact they want a public purse funded royal home in the UK for the maybe one time a year they turn up there, is ridiculous.  They chose to leave, to walk away, to fire endless grenades, they’re lucky to have even kept their titles and be invited to the coronation in my view. Honestly, I'm so over their delusion.  I didn’t watch their Netflix special, I never read his book, I didn’t watch his many soft ball interviews after the book, I didn't watch him getting diagnosed live on air by a trauma counsellor, there’s only so much over sharing one needs to participate in.  I get the drift. I just think enough is enough.  And I’ll say it again, no ill will intended their way.. had they done what they said they were going to do, most of us wouldn’t have an issue with it. But in doing the exact opposite, they’ve brought all this on themselves and there’s no one else to blame, but each other.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.