A royal expert has torn into Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, comparing their year to that of the Queen’s in 1992 when Windsor Castle burnt down.

Julie Burchill, a writer for the Spectator who describes herself as a ‘rad-fem’ referred to the mother-of-two as ‘hollow – like, a Russian doll’.

When referencing the royal couple’s 2024, she said that it compared to that 32 years ago when Queen Elizabeth’s “favourite son was photographed canoodling with an American” and her daughter, Princess Anne, divorced. She even referenced Princess Diana being the “co-creator of a frank book about the sorrows of her marriage to the Queen’s eldest son”.

Burchill called 1992 ‘annus horribilis’, and said that there was a ‘marked difference’ between the Queen’s ‘awful year’ and Prince Harry’s. She wrote scathingly: “The Queen’s year might have happened to anyone who had a bit of bad luck and a lot of castles. Harry and Meghan’s ‘annus horribilis’ is the direct result of them being, as that Spotify exec said, ‘f****** grifters’.

She went on to describe the South Park episode with likeness to the Sus𝑠e𝑥’s head off on a ‘Worldwide Privacy Tour’. She referenced a ” genuinely chilling moment when the Prince suggests to his wife that they might actually embrace a life of privacy and do good things rather than just talk about how good they are. When she doesn’t answer, he opens her head and finds that she is hollow, like a Russian doll”.

She then calls Harry and Meghan’s supporters bullies, saying that they ‘still spread nasty rumours’ when Princess Catherine took a leave of abscence from royal duties to look after undertaking preventative chemotherapy.

Referencing Meghan’s new lifestyle brand ‘American Riviera Orchard’ she said it sounded like a ‘urinal cake’. And that “while people don’t need to like you for your lifestyle brand to be a success (see Paltrow, G. and Stewart, M.), they do have to be slightly envious of you and think: ‘I wish I had what she’s got!’”

But Burchill doesn’t think anyone wants what Meghan has. Adding: “Tina Brown said this year, ‘The trouble with Meghan is that she has the worst judgment of anyone in the entire world. She’s flawless about getting it all wrong’, it sounded like an understatement”.

Once she was done tearing into Meghan, Burchill turns her contempt to Prince Harry, saying that he seems “like a baffled child playing at being a grown-up”, despite once ‘prouldly’ wearing medals earned from 10 years in the Army.

She then went on to say that “two things this year have made Harry appear not merely daft, but callous”.

The first, she writes, was when he accepted – against the wishes of the dead man’s mother – the Pat Tillman Award from Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly. Tillman was an American football player who gave up a £3 million contract to enlist in the US army.

His mother Mary said: “I am shocked as to why they would select such a controversial and divisive individual to receive the award. There are recipients that are far more fitting.

“There are individuals working in the veteran community that are doing tremendous things to assist veterans. These individuals do not have the money, resources, connections or privilege that Prince Harry has.”

Rounding off her review of the pair, Burchill digs into their latest Netflix offerings. Saying that the Prince’s polo documentary does nothing to alter his “out-of-touch playboy prince” persona and making a sly dig at Meghan’s upcoming cooking show to “see how down-to-earth she is”.

Burchill says that “we don’t even hate them any more”, and that we “just think they’re ridiculous”.

She did say there may still be hope for the pair.

“It’s feasible that the marriage could implode and Harry will come limping home. But whatever next year holds, it’s hard to imagine that it could be worse than 2024.” She wrote.