MY all-time favourite theatre review was about a play called: Why?

The critic wrote one word: “Exactly.”

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Meghan and Harry aren’t real royals these days – they don’t do actual dutiesCredit: Getty

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The Sussexes just line their pockets with cash in America by constantly trashing their familiesCredit: AP
I thought of this when I heard that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will embark on a four-day tour of Colombia this Thursday.

They’re going at the invitation of the country’s first black Vice President, Francia Marquez, who gushed that the renegade royal duo “have the exceptional opportunity to engage with elders, youth and women who embody the aspirations and voices of Colombians . . . and illuminate Colombia’s role as a beacon of culture and innovation”.

Watch Piers’ explosive interviews on his Uncensored YouTube channel here

How nice for them all. But why is this being allowed to happen?

Meghan and Harry aren’t real royals these days.

They don’t do any actual duties for the institution which conferred their titles on them — they just line their pockets with cash in America by constantly trashing their families, and the monarchy, in the media.

So, what gives them the right to prance around the world pretending to be proper  royals, on quasi- official visits?

There are so many things wrong about this.

First, the laughable hypocrisy of them going to one of the world’s most dangerous places — both the UK and US government websites warn travellers to Colombia about the elevated risk of terrorism, kidnapping, rape and robbery — after all of Harry’s whiny demands for taxpayer-funded royal security when he comes to the UK to “protect his family”.

Second, their decision to go and prop up a Colombian government that’s been bedevilled by scandal since coming to power.

President Gustavo Petro, a radical socialist who once fought in a rebel guerrilla group, has  seen his foreign minister suspended for alleged cor- ruption, his son Nicolas charged with pocketing cash from drug traffickers meant for his father’s presidential campaign, and his brother Juan accused of seeking payments from jailed drug dealers in exchange for judicial benefits from the government.

Petro’s also faced recent allegations that he cheated on his wife with a transgender TV host.

As for his Vice President, there’s been growing public anger over her hypocrisy at being Colombia’s minister for equality while simultaneously using luxury helicopters like taxis and spending millions on a new home where she now lives instead of her official residence.

Greedy two-faced pair

Opposition politician Miguel Polo Polo posted on X: “Francia Marquez is the biggest fraud in our black community.

“She’s been in office for two years and has done nothing, only play the victim and travel around in helicopters.”

Sound familiar?

But what I’m most annoyed about is the Sussexes’ delusion that they can somehow operate as a rival royal family on the global stage, enjoying all the benefits from that regal status but without any need to fulfil their obligations to their King and country.

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What gives them the right to prance around the world pretending to be proper  royals, on quasi-official visits?Credit: Reuters

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The King should strip Meghan and Harry of their titles that they trade off so cynicallyCredit: CBS
They should be stopped.

King Charles and Prince William are both said to be “livid” about this Colombia tour, and I’m not surprised.

It’s completely unacceptable, and unsustainable, for estranged members of the Royal Family to conduct official trips like this.

The King should strip Meghan and Harry of their titles that they trade off so cynically, and instruct Palace officials to tell heads of foreign governments that they must stop issuing formal tour invitations of this nature to this greedy two-faced pair who want to have their royal cake and eat it.