Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are yet to crack America for one major reason, according to a PR expert. The couple, who moved to the US together in 2020, currently reside in California with their children, Prince Archie, five, and Princess Lilibet, three. Speaking on the Channel 5 show Harry and Meghan’s American Nightmare, PR expert Nick Ede shares why America has turned its back on the couple.

As reported by the Mirror, he said: “Hollywood is falling out of love with Meghan and Harry because over there you have to earn your stripes – and it really feels like they haven’t earned those stripes.

“If you are a George Clooney or an Arnold Schwarzenegger, you can get to a level where you can be a little bit political, where you can use your gravitas to really make a change.

“What I feel about Meghan and Harry is, they haven’t earned that so people are beginning to stop listening.”

Mr Ede’s comments come just weeks after Variety’s scathing article about Harry and Meghan – a publication which once favoured them.

The 8,000-word article contained troubling new claims about what it’s allegedly like to work for the Sussexes and complaints from their neighbours in Montecito.

It also shared a fresh allegation that a member of Meghan’s team had reached out to a publishing house to “gauge interest” in a post-divorce book. Another claim read that Harry underestimated the backlash that he would receive from his bombshell memoir, Spare – and claims that the couple lacked ideas regarding their multi-million-pound Netflix deal.

According to The Times, Meghan and Harry dismissed the allegations, with a source close to them describing them as “distressing” at the time.