We don't need to tell you that 2020 wasn't an easy year for anyone.
And while we have no special sympathy for the British Royal Family -- after all, they were spared the economic anxiety that characterized the past nine months for so many -- the Queen and her inner circle had their most trying year in recent memory due to a seemingly endless string of PR crises.
Last week, in a stunning essay for the New York Times, Meghan Markle revealed that she had suffered a miscarriage in July of this year.
The news was met with an outpouring of sympathy, and the essay drew widespread praise for its courage and candor.
Very sadly, it has come to this on the Internet:
Chrissy Teigen has fired back at a troll/moron/total loser who made fun of Meghan Markle...
Heartbreaking news from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex today, as Meghan Markle has revealed that she suffered a miscarriage in July of this year.
Meghan went public with the news in an op-ed that she penned for the New York Times.
The Netflix series The Crown has always portrayed the royal family in a less than flattering light, but the show's most recent season really raised the stakes by delving into the drama surrounding the early years of Prince Charles' marriage to Princess Diana.
Not surprisingly, the depictions of abuse and adultery have not been well-received by the Windsors, and for two of the family's most high-profile members, the controversy couldn't have come at a worse time.
In the most recent season of the Netflix drama The Crown, there's an episode in which Queen Elizabeth does some soul searching in an effort to determine if she has a favorite among her four children.
While she eventually comes to the conclusion that she's not that crazy about any of her kids, the Queen's husband, Prince Philip, insists that her clear favorite is the perennially troubled Prince Andrew.
Duchess Meghan Markle is currently engaged in a humiliating lawsuit about alleged lies published about her.
As part of that, it is revealed that, well, Meghan wanted to make sure that a recent book, Finding Freedom, told things in a certain way.
The fourth season of the royal drama The Crown debuted on Netflix this week, and for many of the show's younger fans, these may be the its most poignant episodes yet.
While the series' protagonist is still a fictionalized version of Queen Elizabeth, she now finds herself butting heads with a character whom viewers might find far more sympathetic -- a very young and very naive Princess Diana.
Meghan Markle will never return to life as a full-time Royal.
Let's go ahead and state this for the record right up front.
It's been eight months since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped down from their roles as senior members of the royal family.
One of their goals in doing so, of course, was to escape the constant scrutiny of the British tabloid press.
Meghan Markle was already a trailblazer in a number of ways prior to November 3.
She was the first woman of color to marry into the British royal family, as well as the first woman to earn a fortune of her own before joining the Windsor clan.
Back in February of 2019, a letter that Meghan Markle had written to her father, Thomas Markle, was published by UK tabloid the Daily Mail.
Portions of the letter appeared in five separate articles, and the Duchess of Sussex was said to be devastated by the invasion of privacy.
We've known about the feud between Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton for so long that it's hard to remember a time when the two women appearedf to be getting along.
But to this day, insiders disagree on everything from the cause of the rift to its severity.
When Meghan Markle and Prince Harry moved to America, there were many theories regarding what ultimately motivated them to leave their old lives behind.
Some said they were tired of being bullied by the British tabloid press.
One only has to look at their new, non-royal portrait to see how far Meghan and Harry have come from their royal days.
According to a new book, it was the Queen who decided that the two could not be trusted with the "royal" title after Megxit.
Here in America, it's been a pretty banner year for hate, corruption, and all types of vile human beings.
But we certainly don't hold a monopoly on douchebag behavior - after all, the Brits have Piers Morgan.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are no longer members of the Royal Family.
But that doesn't mean they can't still pose for official portraits.
Few people have experienced the dark side of social media as extensively as Meghan Markle.
In fact, in a recent interview, Meghan reminded fans that she was named the most trolled person in the world in 2019.
Maybe there's a reason so many fairy tales end with the heroine marrying the prince.
If the story continued from there, we'd see that the situation wasn't so "happily ever after" after all.
According to a wild new report, Meghan Markle wants to run for President someday.
We have no idea whether or not that is true.
One of the reasons that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry moved to America was to escape the drama that had been tearing at the fabric of the royal family since the time they started dating.
Needless to say it didn't work.
Generally speaking, Christmas is a time for forgiveness, compassion, and understanding.
But like everything else about this year, Christmas 2020 will likely be one giant sh-tshow, so what better time to stick it to the in-laws you can't stand anyway?
Over the past few years, Meghan Markle has gone from little-known actress on a basic cable legal drama to one of the most famous women in the world.
And not surprisingly, such a meteoric rise has presented plenty of challenges.
You know what they say in the world of politics, right?
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
