Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were welcomed in New York last week to be honoured as the Humanitarians of the Year.
Many in the audience were delighted to see them, but others were astounded.
How could either of them be called humanitarians when they have rubbished the Royal Family and hugely hurt their feelings?
Harry has never met Thomas Markle, Meghan’s ailing father, and Meghan hasn’t taken any notice of him for at least seven years.
He is now asking if Meghan will even come to his funeral.
Despite holding hands as they arrived at the New York function in dark suits, the couple looked uncomfortable and tetchy.
Meghan kept trying to catch Harry’s eyes but initially he refused to look at her.
It spoke louder than what they went on to say on the stage.
When Meghan was given the award by Project Health Minds she was praised as “a mother, wife, entrepreneur, and philanthropist”.
Harry’s mental health advocacy and his memoir Spare, which greatly hurt the Royal Family and revealed private matters, were among his listed accolades.
They had been chosen for their efforts in mental health advocacy and for building a safer digital world for families and young people.
Harry is very concerned about this issue and highly disapproves of social media.
Meghan, however, went on Instagram in January to tell her followers about herself and children Archie, six, and Lilibet, four.
Nonetheless, as well as talking about her children on stage, she said: “Like so many parents, we think constantly about how to embrace technology’s benefits, while safeguarding against its dangers.”
Doesn’t she know how canny children are and aware how their parents behave, especially when it’s a “do as I tell you not as I do” matter?
It can be very hypocritical.
Harry’s contribution was a helping of word salad: “This is a pivotal moment in our collective mission to protect children and support families in a digital age.”
A few days earlier Meghan went to Paris for the Balenciaga fashion show, the first time she’d been to Europe in three years.
A source has previously quoted her as saying she would never go to Paris for Harry’s sake.
Meghan is meticulous about arrangements, so why did she post a video of herself in the back of a car so close to the Pont de l’Alma underpass in the French city where his mother Diana died in a 1997 car accident?
Prince William made it known he was furious.
A royal staffer told celebrity reporter Rob Shuter the heir to the throne “said it was grotesque”.
Netflix is said to be preparing a documentary about Princess Diana and Meghan for the 30th anniversary of the tragedy.
Meghan doesn’t miss a chance to be seen and potentially hoped that posting herself close to the tunnel would be an opportunity to take part in the programme.
Harry addressed the New York audience about the toll the Covid-19 pandemic took on mental health and the resulting “surge in anxiety and depression”.
Meghan watched on from the front row.
When it was her turn, she talked about how families who had their worlds “absolutely shattered” via social media while “others . . . had lost so many of their children to struggles with depression, anxiety, self-harm all inflicted by online harms”.
Some humanitarian behaviour to her own family and Harry’s would go a long way.
Angela Levin is an award-winning British journalist and royal biographer. Her biography Harry: Conversations with the Prince was published in 2018. Her work has been commended twice at the British Press Awards.