Harry and Meghan’s new Hollywood move shows how self-centered they are

The world’s greatest navel-gazers have lastly hooked a buzzy new mission.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have acquired the movie rights to the New York Occasions bestselling novel “Meet Me on the Lake,” by Carley Fortune, which cost a cool $3 million.

They’ll be growing it for Netflix who, again in 2020, inked the couple to a multi-year $100 million deal.

Is that this pivot from specializing in themselves into fiction some kind of redemption?

All of us knew the juice had been squeezed out of the lemon after “Spare,” the gag-inducing “Harry & Meghan” docu-series and a failed $20 million “Spotify” deal — by which they failed to supply something past Meghan’s podcast ode to her private grievances, with bonus movie star visitors.

May this new transfer be proof that Harry and Meghan, who’re in a rebrand effort underneath the hand of WME honcho Ari Emmanuel, are lastly turning the nook after their high-priced, high-ego failures to launch?

Hardly. It merely underscores their narcissism.

Selecting this romantic novel, which mirrors a good quantity of their very own biographies, is one more signal of the couple’s self-centered and boring devotion to the themes that maintain them atop the throne of victimhood.

According to Deadline, the e-book’s plot factors embrace “childhood trauma, together with dropping a father or mother in a automobile crash” — shades of tragic Princess Diana — in addition to “psychological well being challenges and post-natal melancholy.”

The story, which is about two 30somethings falling in love, additionally has a damaged friendship (hey, Jessica Mulroney, who Markle reportedly dumped “to look woke“) and takes place in and round Toronto, the place Markle’s previous TV present “Fits” was filmed.

Sounds eerily acquainted. The one factor lacking is a battle with a sister-in-law over flower woman attire and a sit down with a talk-show host named Moprah Minfrey.

This alternative reveals the Sussexes’ eager lack of ability to even take into account a world past their very own “lived experiences.”

The boring however handsomely paid pair at the moment are merely laundering their very own rigorously crafted tales by means of another person’s work of fiction.

Nice storytellers can channel others’ factors of views with empathy, summon creativeness and create worlds most of us couldn’t think about.

However Harry and Meghan, who discover themselves endlessly fascinating, are all the time trekking down the identical trails inside their very own bubble.

At this level, they appear like aspiring actuality stars — wannabe Snookies and Sandovals — simply itching for extra of their agenda to be projected on the boob tube. However they’re now doing it by means of veiled strategies to offer them respectability.

Trauma influencer Prince Harry couldn’t get his preposterous podcast thought — diving into the childhoods of Trump and Putin — on the air for Spotify. Meghan’s animated sequence “Pearl” a couple of “younger woman who learns to step into her energy” was nixed by Netflix.

Even the couple’s newest picture makeover —  a lot wanted after their skilled bombs and shamefully exaggerated story in Might, once they claimed to have been in a “near-catastrophic” paparazzi chase — has featured their biggest hits: entitlement and an absence of non-public accountability.

In a Individuals journal cowl story final week, a supply defended the pair, saying the Spotify deal sputtered out as a result of they had been “given no formal lay of the land to kick issues off, in order that they had been already on unsteady footing even earlier than the ink was dry.”

In addition to it being oddly much like Meghan’s assertion that the royals didn’t put together her for royal life, it makes use of the phrase “given.” Therein lies their nice assumption: They’d be handed every thing together with a bag of money.

If most individuals had been paid that form of scratch regardless of having no expertise, they might make it a mission to determine the lay of the land on their very own.

The lone mission that reveals any promise is “The Coronary heart of Invictus,” which is able to reportedly be out later this month on Netflix. I anticipate it to in regards to the wounded warriors — their grit, willpower and athletic triumph after life-altering accidents. It’s possible not about Harry.

No less than I pray it’s not.

If this had been professional sports activities, Harry and Meghan would have been minimize from the group a very long time once more and mercilessly mocked as busts.

However to be form to the busts, they needed to do one thing outstanding to make it to the large leagues within the first place.