Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. Or, y’know, you could – if you were so inclined – seize the opportunity to spread yet another vicious rumour about Meghan Markle.

This week, like so many other weeks, sees the Duchess of Sussex held up as a villain by certain press outlets. They’ve dubbed her a “pretentious fraud”, and insisted her “latest jibe at the Queen smacks of spiteful fury”. They’ve accused her of “breaking Prince Harry’s heart”, of instigating a “Buckingham brawl”, and of “using” the royal family. One tabloid even ran a photo of Meghan alongside Elizabeth II, insisting that the duchess used “divisive” tactics to “fool” the queen.

The bullying nature of these headlines is hard to ignore. And they are relentless.

Meghan Markle is being treated like a pantomime villain, and it has to stop