Royal flush

In the 244 years since the colonists declared their independence from Great Britain, America has had very few regrets about the break from a country with which we share a common language and legal system. Sunday night, we received further confirmation that we made the right choice, when CBS aired Oprah’s news-filled interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, detailing the petty dramas and miserable-sounding lives of Britain’s Royal Family.

Tolstoy’s famous opening line, that “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” certainly applies to this insular, out of touch, back-biting crew, whose royal roles have devolved over decades into serving as taxpayer-supported national mascots — adored, reviled and objectified by the public.

When the bi-racial Markle married Harry, she joined a family that, according to the couple, operated like a scandal-scarred corporation fearful of litigation, with its own human resources department, and a staff so entrenched and complex it’s referred to as “the Firm.” She was forced to give up her passport, drivers license and keys, and faced constant, racist, often cruel coverage from a ravenous press corps that has an unhealthily mutually dependent relationship with the royals, each depending on the other for survival.

America has terrible racial problems, but millions gathered round the TV Sunday let out a collective gasp upon hearing that, before Markle gave birth to son Archie, unnamed members among Harry’s family had “concerns and conversations” about how dark the skin of her unborn child might be. The stigmatization of mental illness is a problem in the U.S., but Americans were stunned to hear Markle recount how, in throes of a depression after facing an onslaught of negative press, she sought help from the royal family and was rebuffed, because, as she claimed, it “wouldn’t be good for the institution.”

We’re glad we put an ocean between ourselves and the monarchy — and glad Meghan and Harry have too.

Brooklyn: Our do-nothing mayor should climb down from his high horse and stop pontificating about Gov. Cuomo’s troubles. He should remember that there are many people in and out of power who would love to investigate the nearly $1 billion his administration spent on ThriveNYC run by his wife. Just sayin’. Carol Katz