SNL host jokes about Meghan Markle at the coronation

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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry “cannot win” their campaign against the Royal Family, suggests one royal commentator. Daniela Elser cited the Sussexes’ falling popularity as well as jokes made at their expense as evidence that the couple’s “PR campaign” against the royals has backfired.

“Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, might have spent the last two years waging an exhausting, never-ending battle of wits and PR strategy against The Firm, but they have actually ended up on the losing side,” claimed Ms Elser.

She added: “Over the last two years, the Sussexes have thrown a hell of a lot of criticism at Charles, Queen Camilla, William and Kate, and the institution of the monarchy as a whole.”

Most recently, Prince Harry released a tell-all memoir, Spare, which slammed several members of the Firm and revealed numerous intimate moments in the Duke’s life. The book became an overnight best seller but has cost the Sussexes, according to Ms Elser.

She pointed out that Meghan and Harry had become the butt of jokes in the US with comedians Chris Rock, Jimmy Kimmel and Trever Noah all hitting out at the Duke and Duchess while the hit TV show South Park dedicated a whole episode to mocking the couple.

“This is the price that the Sussexes are paying for their Palace campaign having failed to really gain a huge amount of PR ground,” Ms Elser added, writing for news.com.au.

She continued: “Harry might be fighting to squeeze some sort of admission or acknowledgment or even an apology gluten-free muffin basket (I’m guessing) from his family, but instead he ended up with an immovable palace, a King who has refused to give an inch and large chunks of Americans having gone off them.”

Polls show the Duke and Duchess’s popularity has fallen significantly in America since the release of Spare. Prince Harry has a net approval rating of -10, down 38 points since December, according to a Redfield & Wilton for Newsweek taken in February after the release of Spare.

Similarly, Meghan Markle had a dismal net approval rating of -17, a drop of 40 points since December.

“Harry cannot win the campaign he has been waging against the royal family. Soz,” Ms Elser quipped.

Although she admitted that no one could be certain what would happen in the future, she said: “Right now, it certainly looks like the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are losing the power struggle with Charles.”

Meghan and Harry have been invited to King Charles’s Coronation, but it’s unclear whether the Duke and Duchess will attend. The Coronation will take place on May 6 but, so far, there has been no RSVP from the Sussexes.

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