Really can’t hide

same? Last week the first of the Stateside bulletins from the House of Sussex was delivered – Harry and Meghan are looking for work but will do nothing to harm the Queen.

If that sounded like a vote of loyalty, in reality it was a safeguard against the money tap being turned off completely.

It appears that Harry and Meghan are cut loose from Britain without a proper plan, and with no clear idea how they were to finance their future life.

Security – estimated at £4million a year – would be down to him.

There’s been much talk of buying a house in uber-smart Malibu. Properties start with a £20million price tag, and Harry doesn’t have that kind of money.

The Windsors faced similar difficulties. Though once King and Emperor, the Duke owned little. He had a life interest in Sandringham and Balmoral, which he gave up for cash, but his home – his pride and joy, Fort Belvedere inwindsor Great Park – was on a Crown lease. Like Frogmore Cottage, the Fort was shuttered when he fled. He was never to return.

In the years that followed, he never had a job. He talked about charitable work but it never happened. It would come as no surprise to find that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex Foundation, which shut up shop last week, won’t be rekindled in the US. Running a charity costs money and there’s no evidence Harry will ever work again to fund it.

Meghan is a big name in Los Angeles, but unless she gets bigger jobs than the voiceover she’s just done for a Disney documentary, her prospects are bleak.

She’s a competent actress but her attraction came from being royal. And the Sussexes are no longer royal.

And so the jokes begin.this week our one-time hero was being labelled ‘Harry Markle’ whilethetimes said of the Duchess’s first Hollywood effort: “Meghan lays the cheese on thick in shallow documentary.”

Just before Edwardviii abdicated, he was the nation’s pin-up.weeks later the joke was: “He used to be Admiral of the Fleet, now he’s the third mate on an American tramp.”

Ridicule follows hard on your heels when you run away. Let’s hope Harry and Meghan can escape the void their predecessors fell into.