Earlier this month, we reported on the surprising news that Netflix had canceled a project involving Meghan Markle.
Insiders described the collaboration as an animated series in which a young female protagonist would receive inspiration from the examples set by great women throughout history.
There was a time when it looked as though Meghan Markle would never again set foot in the UK.
In the months after Meghan and Prince Harry stepped down from their roles as senior members of the royal family, they seemed eager to distance themselves for good from the rest of the royal family.
When Meghan Markle and Prince Harry first moved to America, there was widespread debate how the couple would and should wield their considerable influence.
Fans hoped that the Sussexes would involve themselves in politics and humanitarian causes, while critics cautioned that doing so would create considerable controversy.
Last month, we reported on the unexpected news that President Joe Biden is planning to run for re-election.
Only one president in American history has declined to seek a second term and it was a different world when Calvin Coolidge declared "I do not choose to run" way back in 1927.
May is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month and last week, Kate Middleton marked the occasion by issuing a statement about the importance of ensuring that pregnant women have access to proper psychiatric care.
Kate noted that this care must be supplemented by support from friends, family, and community.
Meghan Markle's rags-to-riches tale has inspired millions, and the Duchess' refusal to kowtow to her overbearing in-laws has earned her a legion of loyal fans the world over.
Of course, Meghan has also attracted the contempt of an army of critics who appear to be motivated by nothing other than jealousy of her success.
Last month, on their way to the Invictus Games in the UK, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry visited the Queen in London.
It was Meghan's first trip to the UK since she and Harry stepped down as senior members of the royal family back in 2020.
There was a time when Kate Middleton might have been the most famous and fawned-over woman on the planet.
These days, Kate's popularity in the UK remains unmatched, but globally, she's taken a backseat to her sister-in-law by marriage, Meghan Markle.
Some rare bad news for Meghan Markle this week, as Netflix has pulled the plug on a planned collaboration with the Duchess.
Meghan and Prince Harry signed a $100 million deal with the streaming giant shortly after they stepped down as senior members of the royal family.
For much of the past two years, members of the British tabloid press openly wondered if Meghan Markle and Queen Elizabeth II would ever spend time under the same roof again.
Earlier this month, all that giddy speculation about a permanent rift was finally put to rest.
From the very beginning of her relationship with Prince Harry, Meghan Markle has faced an endless barrage of criticism from royal "traditionalists" and snarkier members of the British media.
The harshest complaints often involved unflattering comparisons between Meghan and Princess Diana.
When Donald Trump sat down with Piers Morgan last week, the conversation did not go according to plan.
Trump stormed out of the interview after Morgan had the temerity to correctly state that Joe Biden was elected president in a free and fair election.
This month saw Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan Markle return to Europe for a visit.
While America is Harry's home, it was good for him to reconnect with his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.
From the beginning of her relationship with Prince Harry, Meghan Markle has been the subject of nonstop abuse and harassment in the press and on social media.
These days, of course, virtually every public figure becomes a target of criticism at some point in their career, but Meghan's case was very different from most.
Last week, a surprising development took place in London, and for once, the British tabloid press was at a loss for words.
On their way to attend the Invictus Games in the Hague, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stopped and visited the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
Often, when a high-profile couple goes their separate ways, there's talk on social media about who "won" the breakup.
In this case, the split took place not among romantic partners but between warring factions of the same family -- and one side has clearly emerged victorious.
When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle moved to America back in 2020, the British tabloid press speculated that the couple would cut ties with Harry's family entirely.
That didn't happen, of course, but even though the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have maintained closer ties to the royals than their critics expected, the same media outlets routinely blast Meghan for allegedly keeping her in-laws at arm's length.
There were plenty of memorable moments in Meghan Markle's interview with Oprah Winfrey, and more than a year after it aired, the conversation is apparently still causing turmoil within the royal family.
Meghan took full advantage of her first real opportunity to set the record straight on a number of different issues, including the claim that she made Kate Middleton cry during an argument in the days before her wedding to Prince Harry.
These are sad times for the Duchess of Sussex, and for once, Meghan Markle's grief has nothing to do with the abuse she endures at the hands of the British tabloids or her own exploitative family.
Meghan might have made a few enemies over the course of her meteoric rise, or during her fairy tale romance with Prince Harry, but she's made far more friends.
If you spend any time reading tabloids or scrolling through social media, then we probably don't need to tell you that there's a lot of hate and rage out there, and a shocking amount of it is directed at Meghan Markle.
Of course, the Duchess of Sussex can take solace in the fact most of the vitriol is coming from a small number of haters who are working hard to create the impression that she's widely reviled.
It's a title you won't hear during next week's Oscars ceremony, but for many critics, Red Rocket was one of the year's most compelling films.
And that's largely thanks to a bravura performance from star Simon Rex.
As we reported earlier this month, Meghan Markle is being sued by her wicked half-sister Samantha.
The 57-year-old has been riding Meghan's coattails and trying to get rich off her sister's fame for a depressingly long time, of course.
We've known for years that Meghan Markle's wicked half-sister Samantha is a shameless bottom-feeder who will say and do whatever it takes to gain a modicum of fame by publicly bashing the Duchess.
But Samantha's latest lies are so repugnant, so nauseating in their cruelty that we wouldn't have previously thought that even she was capable of sinking so low.
An English prince showing up at a rodeo in Texas sounds like the setup for a bad joke.
But when Prince Harry attended the Stockyards Championship Rodeo at Cowtown Coliseum on Saturday night, no one seemed to be laughing.
