The Great ‘Grabdication’: Saga of the Sussexes Takes a Few Turns for the Worse

Omid Scobie flogs his novel ‘Royal Spin’ to Universal Television.

AP/Peter Dejong, file
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, duke and duchess of Sussex, visit the track and field event at the Invictus Games at the Hague, Netherlands. AP/Peter Dejong, file

What in 2020 I coined “The Grabdication” — the flight to America from the UK by Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, in order to monetise their experiences within the Royal Family — has taken a few turns for the worst recently. For one so obsessed with coming across as an all-round Good Person, Ms. Markle could barely have made a worst fist of letting her sick 80-year-old father crowdfund for a serious medical operation, it transpired this week, while she herself is sitting pretty in a $14 million home with more toilets than the Yankee Stadium. 

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