Sitting forlornly on an oak table, three lonely tins of Meghan Markle’s $15 flower sprinkles are all that remain of what was once a lavishly promoted outpost of the Duchess’s Californian empire.
They look almost comically pathetic.
And yet, in this quiet upstairs room at Godmothers bookstore just three miles from the $14.6million Montecito mansion the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have just quit, they may be the most telling symbol yet of the collapse of the couple’s much-hyped American dream.
I was here late last year when the mood could not have been more different.
Then, amid a flurry of publicity and social
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