AMANDA PLATELL: Never mind the Invictus family, Meghan, what about the relationship with your own father?

How refreshing it was to see Meghan in Dusseldorf performing alongside Harry at the Invictus Games, his wonderful sporting competition for wounded veterans of the armed forces.

It was the first time in four months that Harry and Megs had appeared together at an official event and their loved-up appearance told a very different story to the rumors that their marriage was in trouble.

Although she arrived three days late, she was received with great enthusiasm at the Games’ Family & Friends party, apologizing and saying she had been looking after the children at home, ‘getting milkshakes and doing the school run’ .

She sounded like a regular American mother, which for someone with nannies, a security guard and housekeepers on tap was a bit of a laugh.

But the whole focus of this event was on ‘family’, so fair enough. She mentioned the importance of family in the rehabilitation of wounded soldiers – which is absolutely true. She exclaimed, “I am truly proud to be part of this Invictus family with all of you.”

And Invictus is certainly something to be proud of. But all this family talk got me thinking. What about her own family? I don’t mean the Montecito branch with Harry and their kids. I’m talking about her weak father Thomas, the man she turned her back on, who paid for her private education and cared for her when her mother Doria Ragland mysteriously disappeared for years during her childhood.

A father who has never met her husband Harry and, heartbreakingly, his two grandchildren.

And what about the royal family she married into, the one she accused of being racist and cruel to her in her mean and calculating interview with Oprah Winfrey. The one who has had an insurmountable rift between him and his brother William since her marriage to Harry.

Not to mention his fractured relationship with sister-in-law Kate and his father, King Charles.

This week marked the first time the royal family failed to post a birthday message to Harry.

When Meghan flaunts her virtue and mentions the importance of family at Invictus, I can’t help but think of the family members she has belittled. And I can’t stop thinking how hypocritical it seems.

In a world full of doom, hurray for the wacky ‘Ig Nobel’ (geddit?) science prizes that reward unusual areas of research. Like the technicians who studied noses to find out whether both nostrils contained the same amount of hair. Trimmers at the ready!

About £2 billion was wiped off BP shares after boss Bernard Looney, 53, resigned over claims he failed to fully disclose all his personal relationships with colleagues.

The real sin is that BP’s profits have more than doubled to £23 billion since Russia invaded Ukraine – while ordinary people have had to choose between eating and heating.

Princess Diana’s black shearling jumper, worn when she was newly engaged to Charles and painfully aware that his affair with Camilla was not over, was expected to fetch £50,000 at auction, reaching £885,000.

What kind of creep pays that much for a sweater worn by an innocent but distraught 19-year-old?

Time for an heir, Kate

We all love the Princess of Wales, but hasn’t Kate’s new mermaid hairstyle with ever-so-long, cascading curls gone a bit far?

She is a beautiful woman with a beautiful face and a beautiful figure, so why distract yourself from that?

The last thing we want is for our style queen to be half woman and half hairstyle.

When asked on ITV’s This Morning what he regretted most about the death of his ex-wife Amy Winehouse, who would have turned 40 this week, Blake Fielder-Civil said: “Almost everything.”

He admitted that he introduced heroin to her when he was “a drug addict in my 20s, so I had no idea how to clean myself, let alone anyone else who was a big cog in the machine for a record label and there were vested interests. in Amy continuing to perform’.

Blake has made his role in Amy’s death clear, perhaps it’s time her friends, family and record label bosses do the same.

Sienna has a dumb belly!

Sienna Miller arrived at Vogue’s London Fashion Week party in a skimpy Schiaparelli bolero top and a puffball skirt that hung low beneath her burgeoning baby bump – she is heavily pregnant with actor Oli Green’s child. Very good, but does anyone really care?

Wouldn’t a nice dress have been flattering?

And it’s not a bit of an exaggeration to flaunt your belly like that – considering Demi Moore did it on the cover of Vanity Fair in 1991.

Barbie star Margot Robbie steps in to support high-profile actors and screenwriters in Hollywood, as British film and TV crews ask for leave during the campaign, leaving them unable to pay the bills.

Considering Margot will earn £40 million in salary and bonuses for Barbie, surely she should pay some of her squillions to the unsung minions who make her films so fantastic?

Former Foreign Office boss Simon McDonald tells the BBC he was a staunch Remainer. The civil service was ‘in mourning’ when the country voted for Brexit and he posted ‘it was a good day’ when Boris resigned. Proof that the WFH Leftie Blob is no longer fit for purpose.

Angela Rayner promises that if Labor wins the next election, the party will ‘strengthen the role of trade unions’ and scrap recent anti-strike laws requiring minimum services for transport, health and education.

A New Deal for workers that could have been written by the hard-left Jeremy Corbyn.

Given a two-star rating by our film critic Brian Viner and derided by other reviewers, Kenneth Branagh’s latest Hercule Poirot film, A Haunting In Venice, is certainly proof that he should shave off that silly mustache and go back to the provincial theater where he belongs.

Who wasn’t shocked to see the first pictures of Freddie Flintoff’s injuries after that horrific 130mph car crash on Top Gear.

The tricycle he was in did not have an airbag and his wife Rachael was told to ‘expect the worst’. Yet Freddie survived and is back to help train young English cricketers.

We salute you Freddie, one of the greatest – and still in the game.

Ballet girls miss pointe shoes

Baffling that two of our top ballet schools, including the Royal Ballet School, are being accused of body shaming – which they deny.

Ex-dancers say they were told to ‘tone up’ – coding, they say, for ‘you’re too fat’. Only in our waking world would dancers claim that requiring them to be fit enough to perform is bullying. Who wants to see The Dying Swan danced by a hippo?

Lots of merriment in the Platell household as Strictly returns tonight.

Can Angela Rippon, 78, still do the high kicks? My money goes to former tennis star Annabel Croft, whose 30-year-old husband Mel Coleman died of cancer in May. She’s trying to dance through the heartbreak – and millions of us will be with her every step of the way.

My moggie Ted was shocked when he read a study claiming that a vegan diet benefits a cat’s health – especially after I fed him steamed spinach and lentils. Ted concluded that Professor Andrew Knight, who conducted the research, could only be a dog lover.