The animated sitcom South Park last week served up a brutal satirical takedown of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle in an episode about “the Prince and Princess of Canada”.
The royals are not named, but the caricature is very thinly-veiled given “the prince” has red hair and “the princess” is dressed in an off-the-shoulder pink dress and hat – the same ensemble that Meghan wore at the Trooping the Colour ceremony in 2018.
Filled with plenty of recognisable detail, the plot follows a couple who yearn for seclusion and go off on a “worldwide privacy tour” to promote the prince’s book “Waaagh”, the cover of which clearly alludes to Harry’s recent memoir Spare.
The prince carries a placard on the tour that reads “we want our privacy”, while his wife’s placard says “stop looking at us.”
They visit several countries where they are booed, including a remote part of Australia where the kangaroos bound off as soon as the couple come into view.
They also appear on Good Morning Canada, where they tell the host that they hate journalists.
The host, who describes the prince as a “royal prince, millionaire, world traveller, victim” and his wife as a “sorority girl, actress, influencer, and victim”, points out that as the prince has written a book he is a journalist too.
The couple settle down in South Park, where they hang banners requesting privacy all over their home.
The episode, while hugely funny, also touched on the more sombre issue of the prince’s vulnerability.
He is shown to be fed up with being a “brand” and pleads with his wife: “We can be the people that we’ve talked about being with no more worries about how we look or the images that we project to people… what matters is what we have on the inside.”
He then opens his wife’s mouth, looks down and calls “hello?”, his voice echoing to show that there’s nothing there.
It’s the sharp end of the stick, Meghan won’t like it and Harry will have “protect” his wife … 
