Mike Coppola
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have taken to blaming their faltering commercial success on bad luck, world events and unfortunate timing, including the onset of the coronavirus pandemic just weeks after they quit the royal family.
The couple announced they were leaving the royal family and wanted to be free to earn their own money, in January 2020, just as the first reports of a mysterious respiratory illness were filtering out of the Chinese city of Wuhan.
The couple started their post-royal lives living in Canada but were forced to make a dramatic flight with their dogs on a private jet to Los Angeles in March as they feared the U.S. was about to close its borders as the pandemic gathered pace.