So, picture this: It’s 2020, and Meghan and Harry decide they’ve had enough of waving from balconies and cutting ribbons. They pack up little Archie, bid adieu to the corgis, and jet off to the land of green smoothies and paparazzi – California! They promised us a “progressive new role” within the institution. Spoiler alert: It turned out to be as progressive as Prince Philip at a cultural sensitivity seminar.

Now, five years later, Variety’s dishing out a retrospective that’s less “happily ever after” and more “what in the Windsor was that?” Let’s break it down, shall we?

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