Did Harry and Meghan exaggerate their “catastrophic” chase? It’s complicated | Arwa Mahdawi

You don't have to particularly like Harry and Meghan to be disturbed by the constant vitriol directed against them

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".

Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian US columnist