Harry, Meghan and the rise and fall of the folie à deux

They don’t make them like they used to

I was interested to read that the next Joker film has the subtitle ‘Folie à Deux’ – a lovely phrase not used enough these days. When shrinks talk about folie à deux (also known as Lasègue-Falret Syndrome, after the 19th-century French psychiatrists who discovered it) they mean a ‘shared delusional disorder’ in which symptoms of an irrational belief are transmitted from one individual to another – including folie en famille or folie à plusieurs (‘madness of several’), sometimes leading to violence and even murder. But in popular culture, we generally mean a pair of lovers who act in such a way that anyone outside their set-up sees them as insane (‘folly of two’ or ‘madness shared by two’) and who provide a great deal of entertainment – and reassurance – for those who have chosen a tamer path.

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Meghan Markle was ‘surprised and disappointed’ that Prince Harry ‘had very little money’

Meghan Markle was ‘surprised and disappointed’ that Prince Harry ‘had very little money’, a royal expert has claimed.

Royal author Tom Bower appeared on GB News earlier this month, where he spoke to the MailOnline’s Dan Wootton about the couple’s early relationship.

Discussing the Duchess’ misconceptions about the Royal Family, the author – who wrote the 2022 book Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors – described the former Suits actress as ‘money-obsessed’.

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Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Disliked More Than Prince Andrew in America

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are more disliked in America than Prince Andrew in the aftermath of the duke’s book Spare.

Harry’s popularity in the U.S. has sunk 48 points since December and Meghan’s 40 points giving them net approval ratings of -10 for the duke and -17 for the duchess, according to polling by Redfield & Wilton for Newsweek.

Less liked than Andy? That’s impressive but well earned.

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Meghan ‘has been upset and overwhelmed by her depiction on South Park for DAYS’ after irreverent US cartoon described Duchess as ‘sorority girl, actress, influencer, victim’ in scathing episode

Insiders claim Meghan Markle has been left ‘upset and overwhelmed’ for the past few days at how she and Prince Harry are depicted in an episode of South Park.

The episode, titled ‘World Privacy Tour’ pokes fun at the couple’s grievances, while Meghan is introduced cuttingly as a ‘sorority girl, actress, influencer, victim,’ by another character.

The satirical series ridiculed the couple’s demands for privacy while on a publicity blitz for the prince’s autobiography ‘Waaaah’ – a dig at Harry’s recent memoir Spare – in last week’s brutal episode.

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Are Harry and Meghan planning to sue makers of South Park?

Harry and Meghan’s lawyers are ‘casting an eye’ over animated sitcom South Park, a royal commentator has claimed, after it launched a series of attacks against the couple.

The satirical series ridiculed the couple’s demands for privacy while on a publicity blitz for the Duke’s autobiography, Spare, and their Netflix series in a brutal episode last week.

Now it has been suggested the broadcast may have ‘legal ramifications’ with the Sussexes’ lawyers.

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Prince Andrew fears loss of home as the King cuts spending

The Duke of York fears that he will be forced out of his luxury home in Windsor if the King tightens the royal purse strings.

Andrew, 63, is said to have told friends that he may have to move out of Royal Lodge by September if Charles cuts his funding. This would leave him struggling to afford the maintenance costs of the spacious property.

Since standing down as a working member of the royal family in 2019, he has been supported by private funds from the Duchy of Lancaster, the monarch’s private estate.

30 room mansion?

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Megyn Kelly: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle ‘won’t recover’ from ‘South Park’ dig

Megyn Kelly says Prince Harry and Meghan Markle simply “won’t recover” from a recent “South Park” episode that mocked the exiled royals.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s decision to move across the pond in a desperate bid for privacy was mercilessly ridiculed in the show’s latest episode, titled “The Worldwide Privacy Tour.”

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Are Americans falling out of love with Harry and Meghan?

Polling shows a drop in the couple’s popularity since the release of Spare

Last weekend, 25 of the entertainment industry’s most influential women gathered at a highly-publicised beauty event in Los Angeles that also served as Oprah Winfrey’s 69th birthday party. Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez, Cindy Crawford and Sharon Stone were among the guests. As various American publications were quick to point out, however, the Duchess of Sussex was not.

She’s gonna dump him.

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Proof Prince Andrew photo is not a fake

The Mail on Sunday today reveals crucial evidence that the infamous picture of Prince Andrew with his alleged teenage sex victim is genuine – demolishing claims by the Duke and his supporters that it could be fake.

The photograph of Andrew with his arm around 17-year-old Virginia Roberts has dogged him since it was first published by The Mail on Sunday 12 years ago and ultimately led to his downfall.

Since then, the 62-year-old Prince has suggested the devastating photograph could have been altered with digital trickery, while his former friend, jailed sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, claimed just last week that it is a fraud.

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Prince Harry and the trouble with therapy

He is living proof that oversharing and introspection can make your problems a whole lot worse.

Following the publication of Prince Harry’s colourful memoir, Spare, we might wonder whether he is the first person in history to kiss-and-tell on himself. The Duke’s well-publicised desire for privacy does not sit easily with his book’s many intimate confessions, some of them tragic, many of them tawdry. Like flies on a sun-kissed wall at one of his Montecito therapy sessions, millions of readers worldwide have now basked in Harry’s detailed revelations. He has long advocated talking positively about mental health. But now his revelations are raising many questions about the success, or otherwise, of psychotherapy.

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The photo that ‘clears Prince Andrew’ over bath sex

Maxwell lawyers claim ‘frolicking’ with Duke of York could not happen because there was not enough room

A photograph that the family of Ghislaine Maxwell believes discredits the Duke of York’s accuser has been made public.

The image shows the bath in which the Duke is alleged to have engaged in sexual activity with a teenage girl.

Two of Maxwell’s acquaintances are sitting in the bath, fully clothed, wearing makeshift masks depicting the Duke and Virginia Giuffre.

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