Can Harry and Meghan succeed in reintroducing royalty into US politics?

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have spoken out about paid family leave and the Capitol attack - but is that what Americans want from royal celebrities?

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, appear to have embarked on a new course in recent weeks as they seek to define their lives in America by adding political issues and influence into their established interests of being royal humanitarians embracing US celebrity norms of wealth, fame and talkshows.

First it was Meghan, cold-calling two Republican US senators - West Virginia's Shelley Moore Capito and Susan Collins of Maine - to urge them to support paid family leave provisions in Joe Biden's languishing Build Back Better legislation.