Spare us another chapter of the Harry and Meghan circus

Meet the new king and queen of celebocracy: where wokeness is snobbery in PC clothing.

In their new series, Harry and Meghan show they have a serious beef with Brexit. Picture: Netflix

There’s a brilliant irony in the Harry and Meghan circus. They pose as the progressive rejecters of aristocracy. As two royals who’ve seen the light and no longer want anything to do with the snobbish hierarchy of monarchy.

Yet they look down their noses at the plebs far more than any other modern royal does.

You’re much more likely to hear H&M being sniffy about the masses than Charles or Camilla, or William or Kate.

They might package their disdain for the oiks in the woke language of standing up to racism and countering the mass media. But you can still see it – that haughty scorn for the populace.

I feel far more sneered at by the Duke and Duchess of Woke than I do by any of the old-world aristocrats who continue to haunt the country houses of Britain.

Coy, retiring H&M were back on our screens this week with their new Netflix series about their lives. A headline in Britain’s Daily Star newspaper perfectly captured the ridiculousness of two celebs who moan about press intrusion inviting cameras into their home to film them having an emotional breakdown: “Publicity-shy couple share most intimate secrets with 8bn people.”

Most of the show is standard H&M fare. The press hates us. The royal family refused to help us. There’s racism at play. And so on. It’s “their truth”, again, the one we’ve heard a hundred times before.

But the new series also offers a fresh insight into why the ginger and the whinger felt they had to flee Britain. It wasn’t only because they fell out with the House of Windsor but also because they fell out with the British people. They clearly view Britain as a nation in the grip of xenophobia. As a nation packed with ignoramuses.

They have serious beef with Brexit. As one report put it, their Netflix show strongly implies that “Brexit whipped up racial hatred towards Meghan”. It reminds us that Harry and Meghan started their relationship in the same year – 2016 – when the British masses were discussing whether to stay in or leave the EU. We then see historian David Olusoga saying it was a “toxic debate”.

James Holt, executive director of Harry and Meghan’s production company, the Archewell Foundation, goes further. Brexit whipped up a “perfect storm” that “gave credence to jingoism and nationalism and gave people with really horrible views of the world a little bit more strength and confidence to say what they wanted to say”, he says.

And who suffered as a consequence? Poor Meghan, of course. She’s depicted as the victim of an electorate driven mad and spiteful by Brexit. And so, as a writer for the London’s Daily Telegraph quips, she and Harry had no choice but to “make an escape from the racist hellhole that is Britain and seek refuge in that well-known harmonious melting pot of the US”.

No other royal in modern times has made such a stern and unforgiving judgment about the British people. Indeed, most royals manage to stay out of politics entirely, most notably the Queen, who went 96 years without voicing her views (Charles is less good at zipping the lip).

Harry and Meghan trot the globe on private jets, including a plane from Australia for New Zealand in 2018. Picture: Jessica Hromas/Fairfax Media

Yet here are H&M getting all political, and doing so in an incredibly supercilious fashion.

They behave like royals did in the past, when they’d reprimand their subjects for their lack of wisdom. Everything Harry and Meghan does has that vibe of aristocratic condescension.

They trot the globe on private jets and then hector the plebs about climate change. Meghan uses her guest-editing of British Vogue to call on people to reduce their “impact on the Earth” despite having a carbon footprint many times more massive than normal people’s.

And now they sniffily talk about democracy itself, the debate and the vote on Brexit, as the inflamer of hatred, as so toxic that it made them want to get the hell out of Britain. Brexit made Megxit.

Show me any other royal who behaves in such a brazenly political and even elitist way.

It seems pretty clear that wokeness is snobbery in politically correct clothing. Through their right-on crusades Harry and Meghan have found a way to do what no other Windsor would dream of doing: moan about the masses and meddle in politics.

The celebocracy, in which Harry and Meghan are fast becoming king and queen, is now far more patrician than the aristocracy. The new royalty, worse than the old.