For all the doubters, the ones who assumed the Sussexes had completely ceded the Attention-Whore Index to bizarre, aggressive American phenomena such as Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, and Kristi Noem, here is further proof that the monarchy—even its tacky West Coast outlet, the House of Montecito—can prevail. Because all it took for Harry and Meghan to top our poll again, with an effortless 31.2 percent, was to announce that they would not be attending a wedding to which they might not even have been invited. That, readers, is how it’s done. (And just wait till American Riviera Orchard really gets rolling!)
Second place, with 24.9 percent, went to the attitudinous Trump-trial witness Robert Costello, while Trump himself continued his losing ways (third, 17.2 percent). History’s most aggrieved victim hasn’t won an A.W.I. since April, though he might soon find himself squarely back in the bright, curiously orange glare of the spotlight.
