Now, Nile Gardiner, director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom and Bernard and Barbara Lomas Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, accused the Sussex couple of making a "huge mockery" out of the Royal Family" with their "hugely inappropriate political rant", despite not being working members of the Firm.

The Montecito home of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex is far from the current Los Angeles fires, but they have visited the Eaton Fire site and volunteered nearby.

The couple visited the Pasadena Convention Center, where they spoke with locals and first responders and handed out food parcels.