THE DUKE & DUCHESS OF HAZARD

Harry & Meghan painted as jerks over bizarré claim about car chase

PRINCE HARRY has become a laughingstock on both sides of the Atlantic after overhyping a bizarre Manhattan car chase - leaving palace insiders blaming his diva wife, Meghan, for what is being branded the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's utter destruction!

Just moments after Meghan savored a triumphant return to the public stage after being conspicuously absent from King Charles' coronation, the renegade royals were humiliated as critics crowned Harry the Clown Prince over the Big Apple fiasco!

Now palace insiders believe the Sussexes' marriage is facing its final curtain.

"Their credibility is shredded!" a high-level courtier tells The National ENQUIRER. "This was supposed to be Meghan's big comeback, but Harry blew it!

"There are more holes in their car chase story than Swiss cheese! I can only imagine the heated blame game going on in their ritzy California mansion."

The scandal exploded after the fame-obsessed royals claimed they were relentlessly chased by paparazzi in a "near-catastrophic" two-hour, high-speed car chase through crowded New York streets May 16.

Through a spokesman, Harry shamefully played the victim card by recalling the 1997 Paris wreck that killed his mother, Princess Diana, which he blames on pursuing paparazzi - not her limo driver, who was blind drunk!

The difference is Di's car was zooming at more than 100 mph when the Mercedes flew out of control and smashed into a Paris tunnel pillar - while Harry and Meghan's four-car motorcade was moving through Manhattan's syrup-thick, nighttime traffic, which is frequently bumper-to-bumper at all hours.