Let us be clear: snorting with laughter is undignified. It is not why Meghan spent so many hours having her make-up applied to look as if it wasn’t there. It is not why Harry got out of bed when the California light was just right to say “It’s recording!” and hand her a phone, his duties complete. And it is not why Meg’s expert team poured all their knowledge of Hollywood production values into a homespun little nugget of this week’s truth. Yet my truth is that I laughed. I’m so ashamed.
The premise is a video about her brand, American Riviera Orchard, now renamed “As Ever”. The scene is a garden in California, possibly hers, possibly rented. And our heroine is bravely spinning defeat into victory, courageously relaunching the unlaunchable, with only a smoky eye and a nude lip to help her. And then she said this.