Meghan Markle – or, to use her formal title, the Duchess of Sussex – has had to deal with far more tabloid scrutiny than most women in the spotlight.

When they first found out about her relationship with Prince Harry, they penned vitriolic articles focusing on how “inappropriate” she was. To illustrate this fact, they lambasted her status as a divorced woman, dubbed her a “cougar” (she’s three years older than the prince), and made loaded comments about her race (she has a black mother and a white father). They also, of course, pored through hours and hours of Suits episodes, in order to find and highlight the only one which saw Meghan “flash the flesh” in a “steamy scene” – because, apparently, the actions of a fictional character are far more interesting than, say, the philanthropic endeavours of the actor who portrays her.

Nowadays, Meghan is an official member of the royal family – yet those breathless and scandalised headlines haven’t stopped. To put it bluntly, the devil works hard, but certain members of the press work even harder to pick the Duchess of Sussex apart, and we’ve seen e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g she does thrown under a harsh magnifying glass. She’s been slammed for wearing too much black, for wearing dark nail polish, for donning a one-shouldered gown (despite the fact that her sister-in-law, Kate Middleton, was praised for doing the exact same thing). For wearing a bra. For waking up early. For sitting on a bloody chair.

“She’s a new member of the Royal Family, a controversial member,” etiquette tutor Bulgaria Bugle once commented, seemingly fighting the urge to clutch at her pearls. “I think I would be more careful.”

Meghan Markle really isn’t here for those sexist diet pill rumours, obviously