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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Arwa Mahdawi

Did Harry and Meghan exaggerate their ‘catastrophic’ chase? It’s complicated

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle arrive at an event.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrive at United Nations headquarters on 18 July 2022. Public reaction to the ‘near catastrophic’ car chase the couple were involved in has been divided. Photograph: Seth Wenig/AP

They nearly died! They made the whole thing up! The royal family was trying to Diana them! They’re incorrigible attention-seekers who exaggerated to try and get British taxpayers to pay for their security costs!

Public reaction to news that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the duchess’s mother had been in a “near catastrophic” car chase with paparazzi in New York on Tuesday evening has been divided, to say the least. Some people seem to think that the severity of the incident has been inflated in an effort to drum up sympathetic PR for the Sussexes, at a time when they’re mired in several lawsuits about their privacy and security. Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly, for example, accused the pair of “exaggerating, because they like being in the public eye”.

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