True scale of Meghan and Harry’s US political plans revealed — from request for Biden Oval Office meeting to eyeing Senate seat

Prince Harry asking for an Oval Office sit-down with Joe Biden is the kind of detail you can't make up. A man who spent years telling interviewers he wanted privacy, out of the spotlight, away from the machine that "destroyed" his mother, apparently also wanted a seat at the table with the most powerful person in the world. Those two stories don't fit together, and nobody in this saga has ever bothered to reconcile them.

The Senate seat chatter is the part that really tells you what this is about. You don't angle for elected office in a country you're not a citizen of unless you've convinced yourself that fame alone is a form of qualification. It's the Hollywood theory of politics: enough name recognition and a sympathetic Netflix deal can substitute for actually earning anyone's vote. That theory keeps getting tested by celebrities who think charisma is the same thing as a constituency, and it keeps failing, because Americans generally notice when someone is cosplaying as a public servant.

What's almost funny is how transparent the whole operation looks in hindsight. The couple didn't come to America to disappear. They came to build a brand, and political access was always part of the pitch, right alongside the docuseries and the podcast deals. There's nothing wrong with immigrants pursuing opportunity here, that's the whole point of the country. But dressing ambition up as principle, and expecting a fawning press to never ask the obvious question, is its own kind of delusion.

If nothing else, this should be a reminder that titles, wherever they come from, aren't a substitute for a platform built on actual accomplishment. American voters have shown time and again they're not impressed by inherited status. Harry and Meghan may want to test that rule personally, but the last people to try it usually leave with fewer fans than they started with.