Daily Mail

What value do Sussexes have if they can’t be nasty about royals?

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WHAT a rotten few weeks it’s been for Prince Harry. First, there was his desperate attempt to be at his grandmothe­r’s bedside before she died, after wasting precious time trying to get Meghan on the plane to Balmoral.

Then there was the way he learned of her death from his father — who had been trying urgently to contact him — just five minutes before it was announced to the world.

(Whatever his faults, no one can deny that Harry was a loving and much-loved grandchild.)

After that, we saw him franticall­y trying to delay the publicatio­n of his warts- and- all book about the supposedly horrid and racist Royal Family, perhaps fearing it may reflect badly on him and Meghan.

Now comes the bombshell revelation that the Sussexes are trying to postpone the December release of their multi-million-pound Netflix docu- series until next year.

The show which allegedly contains jibes against his father — now the King, of course — his step-mother Camilla and his alienated brother and sister-in-law.

The point is that such attacks, as well as any indiscreti­ons about the

Royal Family, could well damage the Sussex brand, coming so soon after the death of the Queen — even in far-away America, where their true currency lies.

And yet, sadly for this embittered couple in their $14 million Montecito mansion, their value relies on them continuing to make such attacks.

What are Harry and Meghan worth if they’re not being hateful about the Royals?

Would Netflix be paying them $100 million to be nice about Charles, Camilla, William and Kate, and to tell us piously that they care about the world?

The Queen’s death means that, for now at least, their golden U.S. goose is well and truly cooked. They can no longer just cash in by telling ‘their truth’ about the beastly royals.

Meghan is promising instead to inform us all about her and Harry’s love story.

Ambitious TV actress in an unknown Canadian TV series ensnares a Prince. Removes him from his family, his home, his lineage and all he loves so he can become a lonesome Netflix star. Many would call that a horror movie.

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