Bitter and desperate, it’s clear that Harry and Meghan don’t plan to quit the Firm quietly

Friends insist that they have no misgivings over their controversial decision to step down as senior Royals. Yet the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s latest online outpouring more than hints at an undercurrent of bitterness towards the family they have left behind.

If Harry and Meghan were truly content with how things have turned out, they surely would not have felt the need to publish a 1,033-word ‘update’ on their personal website, laced with thinly-veiled barbs at the Firm.

No regrets? The couple’s markedly pointed reaction to being stripped of their royal status smacks of that infamous celebrity catchphrase: “Don’t you know who I am?” …

Yet there is more of a tinge of tantrums and tiaras in the couple’s attempted push back at the situation they have found themselves in.

Other titled members of the Royal family have been allowed to seek employment outside of the institution, but we are subject to a 12-month review, they gripe.

Next year’s appraisal was designed to give the couple the opportunity to rethink their position, but by spinning it as an impediment to their independence they insinuate that they are being made examples of (seemingly forgetting they chose to make examples of themselves).