MAUREEN CALLAHAN: It’s Royal revenge! Harry snubbed, alone and utterly irrelevant… and our Discount Duchess Meghan seemingly less popular than Lauren Sanchez

Have the Royals finally gotten their revenge?

After bearing the vilest insults, insults, accusations and betrayals from Camp Montecito – for years – with dignified silence, it seems they have served with quiet elegance the dish best served cold.

The chill is felt in the United States, trust.

Prodigal Prince Harry, set to take his victory lap in London as his Invictus Games reach the 10-year milestone, entered St. Paul’s alone as his father and brother hosted events just miles away.

The royal family, it was announced, would not see Harry on this trip. Nor would he be welcome to stay in any of the many palaces, castles or cottages in the king’s portfolio.

No: King Charles, who is currently battling cancer, was too ‘busy’ to spare even a few moments for his son, instead hosting a garden party at Buckingham Palace.

Of the 30,000 guests invited to that event, Harry was not on the list.

However, Charles did find time to announce, within hours of Harry landing in London on Monday, that Prince William would be appointed colonel-in-chief of the Army Air Corps – Harry’s former regiment, and a role he has long held. took on.

As for William, he obviously didn’t see Harry this week either, but instead held an investiture in Windsor on the morning of Harry’s Invictus celebration.

He seems to have made his feelings towards Harry clear, but the stakes are now really high: Kate Middleton is undergoing chemotherapy for her cancer. The idea that Harry – and by default Meghan – could ever trust any information about her or Charles’ health is laughable.

Don’t forget: After Harry made that whirlwind trip to see Charles after his diagnosis was announced in February — he was granted an audience of less than 30 minutes during more than 22 hours on air — he turned around and gave an interview to ABC News.

Did he go into details about Charles’ diagnosis or treatment? No, but probably because Harry isn’t aware of anything.

That didn’t stop him from talking, or from assuming that such a catastrophic illness meant all would be forgiven.

“I think every illness, every illness brings families together,” Harry told ABC’s Will Reeve days after that briefest home visit.

“I have other trips planned that would take me around Britain or back to Britain,” Harry added, “so I’ll just pop in and see as much of my family as I can.”

How’s that going, Harry?

Also consider that a well-researched report in the British press promptly speculated that Harry would step back as a part-time working royal – against the express orders of the late Queen – to take the place of Charles and Kate.

That idea was quickly and unequivocally shot down.

There is no going back, well-placed sources tell the Mail.

‘The terms of the [Sandringham] agreements were very clear,” said a senior source, “and nothing that has happened recently, including the king’s illness, has changed that.”

Not a single royal – not even his once friendly cousin Zara Tindall – showed up to support Harry on Wednesday, or was seen with him during his very brief stint in London.

His wife stayed in America.

He was not seen with a single friend. What a lonely existence Harry has conjured up for himself, an existential hell of his own creation.

In fact, the only family members to support Harry on this journey were his mother’s siblings: Diana’s sister Lady Jane Fellowes and her brother Charles – he of the ‘f-you’ eulogy to the royals at Diana’s funeral and currently his memoir handing out – were present at St. Paul’s on Wednesday.

This alliance can only further deteriorate Harry’s position with the Palace. And without the Palace, he has nothing to offer.

To quote that legendary ‘South Park’ episode: ‘WAAAGH’!

And what does this all mean for Meghan Markle?

She’s surely pulling an ultra-fine, obscenely priced cashmere scarf from Loro Piana or something similar over her shoulders as she cradles a hot cup of tea and wonders what this all means for #BrandSussex.

How are you supposed to trade sweets and shower gels without the royal halo?

To sell in a credible way, as a friend told me Meghan’s mouthpiece Omid Scobie last year: ‘Something rooted in her love of detail, curation, hosting, the simple pleasures of life and family’?

The lack of self-awareness is mind-boggling. They’re actually terrifying delusions reminiscent of Grand Guignol, the stuff of ‘Sunset Boulevard’ and ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane’?

One day in the not-too-distant future, Meghan risks finding herself stumbling around in dilapidated grandeur, mistress of her own “Grey Gardens,” grumbling about her former glories as a Duchess, a lowly cable star and a suitcase girl who has suffered under one of America’s most popular game shows.

Maybe it has already started. After all, where was our discount Duchess at the Met Gala?

It’s a problem if Lauren Sanchez is seen as more stylish than you. When Cardi B. is considered a glamorous addition to the red carpet. When Anna Wintour, a famous monarchist, gives her consent to a pornographic EmRata and all kinds of greased, half-naked starlets, but not you.

It’s a problem when the majority of celebrities gift you numbered jars of jam – nestled among bruised lemons, stickers peeling off – and apparently refuse to acknowledge your wares on social media.

But on the other hand, life’s simple pleasures are difficult to market when you’re otherwise full of complaints and resentments.

After all, is there a greater representative of the family than Ms. Markle, who sat next to Oprah — Harry limp next to her — and smugly suggested that the royals were racists who didn’t care that she was pregnant and suicidal?

Fear not, world, because deferred podcasts and deferred dreams won’t stop Meghan Markle!

Following Harry’s ignominious visit to Britain, she will reunite with him in Nigeria on Friday, a three-day itinerary intended to trigger a royal tour.

Certainly, this is her moment.

After she married Harry — according to her claims that a “Lion King” actor had praised her — people danced in the streets of South Africa, just as they did when Mandela was released.

What could go wrong?