SARAH VINE: Holy smoke! Meghan has shocked us by playing a blinder

Pity poor Princess (sic) Meghan. Just days from the launch of her new series, half of goes up in flames.

Quite tricky to be seen Marie-Antoinetting – putting frilly lids on jam jars and making ladybird petits-fours in a stunning mansion with a lush foliage backdrop – while, in real life, people pick over the molten debris of their lives.

Of course it's not her fault. It's just events, dear boy, events. She couldn't have anticipated such a catastrophe. But surely there's no way the show can be broadcast while her neighbouring hillsides are still smouldering, and when its level of simpering smugness and general self-congratulatory superiority (if the trailer is anything to go by) is so acute.

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