Andrew Bolt: Big dilemma now facing Harry and Meghan

Prince Harry and Meghan’s business model was built on trashing the royal family, but now as his family grieves we only hope those attacks are done.

Something else died with the Queen.

It was Harry and Meghan’s business model – making millions by trashing the royal family.

How can Prince Harry now release his already delayed memoir with all those “truth bombs” to justify his reported $27m payday?

How can wife Meghan Markle also keep ripping the now-bereaved royal family in her exploitative poor-me podcasts for Spotify?

Maybe that’s why Harry was photographed with his head in his hands as he was driven – alone – to Balmoral Castle, to arrive last and too late to farewell his grandmother.

It must have been an agonising drive, and not just because he’s said to have loved the Queen.

He was also driving to a castle filled with people he and Markle have made a career in defaming as recently as two weeks ago in Markle’s calamitous interview with The Cut.

Prince Harry and Meghan following Queen Elizabeth’s death. Picture: Getty Images

There was his father, maligned by the couple as unsupportive, stingy and passing on “genetic pain” to Harry. There was the new King’s wife, whom they’d unfairly accused of making a racist comment about their son.

There was Prince William, whose wife Markle falsely accused of making her cry.

There they all were, the royals Harry and Markle had betrayed for tens of millions of dollars from Spotify, Netflix and Penguin Random House.

And this time Markle was not with Harry, needily clutching his hand as if stopping him fleeing. She’d announced she was going to Balmoral, too, but apparently got the message she wasn’t welcome.

So Harry was alone at the death bed of the beloved grandmother whose last months he’d made worse with his nauseating trade in royal-trash-for-cash.

He was so isolated that not only was he the last to arrive but the first to leave next morning.

Sure, Harry and Markle could keep selling out the royals.

Many people would still lap up Harry’s supposed attacks on the new Queen Camilla in his book.

But in his alone time, did Harry finally realise this was no way to live, his reputation sinking with every slander he sold?

Did he realise his isolation would become total and permanent if he now stepped up his attacks on his grieving father and the new Queen?

The dilemma for Harry and Markle, of course, is that they have nothing else to sell. They’re not that clever.

No wonder Harry’s head hurt so much he had to hold it, with a hand now tantalisingly freed from his grasping wife’s.