MAUREEN CALLAHAN: The humiliating truth about Harry, Meghan and their future together is now an open secret in America

Even Harry and Meghan’s most ardent fans are letting them down.

Formerly pro-Sussex publication The Cut – part of ultra-woke New York magazine – published a savage piece last week.

It seems column inches are one of the many things the Sussexes lost in 2024. In just three paragraphs, writer Danielle Cohen dismantles the couple and their new Netflix docuseries, “Polo.”

Cohen called the couple’s attempts to generate a hit “tortured” and called the litany of bad reviews “annoying,” according to The Telegraph; ‘unintentionally hilarious’, according to The Guardian – before addressing the Gruesome Twosome herself.

“It looks like this business will suffer the same fate as Markle’s beleaguered jam company,” she wrote. ‘Although the couple co-produced the show, it seems to have been more Harry’s pet project; he has been a polo player for a long time and apparently had ‘a vision’.”

If this “vision” was akin to reports of his aborted podcast idea — interviewing the likes of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump about their daddy issues — it’s no wonder it’s a flop.

Of course, Meghan is still as delusional as ever, telling Town & Country last year that she and Harry have “so many exciting things planned.” [Netflix] slate’.

Certainly. Who wouldn’t believe someone whose podcast failed, whose animated series was canceled, whose launch of the American Riviera Orchard lifestyle brand failed to launch?

The point is: America has entered a new phase of this relationship. We don’t even have a rubberneck anymore with these two. We have become completely disinterested. And that is the death knell for Brand Sussex.

Was it fun to hate their first Netflix series, as Meghan mocked her bow to the Queen, Harry looked on mortified and both whined endlessly? Naturally!

Was dissecting ‘Spare’, with its humiliating revelations about Harry’s frozen ‘toddler’ and his mother’s face cream as the ultimate salve, a guilty pleasure? You bet.

But just as the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference, America has grown bored. We have heard and seen it all.

We’ve become that guy at the party who’s cornered by the poignant loser no one wants to talk to, and who looks around unhappily for a more sparkling conversation partner. Or at least a complement to Champagne.

The same apparently applies to the H&M overlords at Netflix. As my colleague Alison Boshoff reported this weekend, a source at the streaming giant says executives are “exhausted” by the couple — and Meghan in particular.

“It’s so much work for her,” the insider said, “and, frankly, the ‘result’ doesn’t seem worth it.”

Another Hollywood executive warned that Meghan’s upcoming Netflix show about cooking, entertainment and friendship — hey, who among us wouldn’t take notes on Meghan Markle’s art of maintaining healthy relationships? – it better be a blow.

“Her show,” this source said, “will have to be a huge hit to turn around their deal” – reportedly worth $100 million – “and their reputation in this city.”

Oh, yes. Let’s get to those reputations.

Meghan signed with much fanfare to be replaced by Hollywood powerbroker Ari Emanuel at WME in 2023.

Now: Were Meghan or Harry at WME’s glittering Emmy party in September? No.

Did Emanuel – despite his great tendency to kill or at least soften the stories about his clients – manage to stop that month’s savage Hollywood Reporter article? You know, the one headlined “Why Hollywood Keeps Quitting Harry and Meghan” and which described the Duchess as “ruthless”?

No, he didn’t.

In fact, that same publication reported in June that Harry’s “Heart of Invictus” docuseries was — according to Netflix data — one of the streamer’s biggest bombs of 2023, with just 300,000 eyes.

“Past by unannounced,” the report said.

So much of what the Sussexes do these days passes without notice. And why not? With their information choked by the Palace, these two can no longer provide the only content America once cared about: royal gossip.

To so many of us, they have been revealed as utterly uninteresting people whose one-time circumstance – proximity to the Crown – was the only thing that made them compelling, let alone relevant.

And so: apparently no invitations to state dinners at the White House for them.

Nor, it seems, at the lavish, star-studded 70th birthday party that their neighbor and former conversation partner Oprah just threw for Gayle King.

It seems there are no offers to host the Met gala, or take off with Bezos in his spaceships, or even have tea with Ellen – the latter has left Montecito for, ironically, the Cotswolds.

However, Meghan was invited to a friend’s baby shower last week, alongside guests Blake Lively — who has had her own bad year, PR-wise — and Crystal Kung Minkoff, former cast member of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.”

‘Real Housewives’ is feeling more and more like Meghan’s job, isn’t it? Although her storyline is in its late stages, the same old conflicts are now being hacked to pieces, causing viewers to tune out and network executives to wonder whether to renew for another season.

It makes you wonder what the atmosphere is like at Sussex. The Royal Family are of course preparing for their annual meeting at Sandringham, with the Duke and Duchess of Despair having once again been removed from the invitation list.

Kate Middleton, the most loved and admired family member, ends the year after completing chemotherapy and triumphs during her annual ‘Together at Christmas’ carol service.

Prince William just held a friendly pow-wow in Paris with our President-elect Trump, who raved about how “really, really handsome” William is and said King Charles is “fighting really hard” against his own cancer diagnosis.

It seems Donald Trump may know more about the royals’ health struggles than Harry at this point.

Meanwhile, longtime Sussex friend and hagiographer Omid Scobie – who they still hang out with despite his epic blunder in leaking the so-called ‘racist royals’ by name – unveiled the couple’s ‘Happy Holiday Season’ card on Monday, with a new image of their children, who are growing up quickly.

Little Lilibet, already three years old, has only met her grandfather, the king, once.

You might think that the Sussexes’ top priority would be to somehow forge a relationship between the ailing king and his small grandchildren in America.

Unfortunately, there is jam for sale.