Chastised in Paris. Delusions turned to dust: This week exposed Meghan... the thunderous look Harry gave her tells me he knows it too, writes MAUREEN CALLAHAN

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Meghan Markle's delusions of grandeur and greatness are turning to dust.

Is there any more striking a comparison than the Nobel committee snubbing President Donald Trump, despite brokering peace between Israel and Hamas, while Meghan and Harry alighted in New York City to collect a humanitarian award — for promoting mental health?

Because who embodies good mental health better than these two dimwits?

Meghan used her acceptance speech to crusade for children, especially her own, now forced to grow up in an increasingly toxic world.

It's her purpose, she'd have us believe.

Yet last Saturday, Meghan turned up, unannounced, at Paris Fashion week for the Balenciaga show— Balenciaga, a brand that faced a firestorm in recent years for advertisements that appeared to promote child pornography.

Logic, follow-through, and integrity of thought and action have never been Meghan's strong suits.

Remember: Meghan and Harry sat with CBS Sunday Morning last year to talk about their new initiative, the Parents Network, meant to combat the online bullying of children and teens — working with parents whose children committed suicide.

Though, in August she hosted Chrissy Teigen, who repeatedly bullied, online and publicly, a young starlet to take a 'dirt nap', on her failed Netflix show, 'With Love, Meghan.'

Is there any more striking a comparison than the Nobel committee snubbing President Donald Trump, despite brokering peace between Israel and Hamas, while Meghan and Harry alighted in New York City to collect a humanitarian award (pictured)— for promoting mental health? 

Meghan turned up, unannounced, at Paris Fashion week for the Balenciaga show— Balenciaga, a brand that faced a firestorm in recent years for advertisements that appeared to promote child pornography

And recall, Meghan claimed that she herself was subject to painful online harassment while pregnant — both times.

'The bulk of the bullying and the abuse that I was experiencing in social media and online was when I was pregnant with Archie and Lil' — really, who else would she be pregnant with? — 'and with a newborn with each of them,' she told Katie Couric in 2024.

'It's not catty, it's cruel,' she complained. 'Why would you do that?'

Physician: heal thyself.

So here Meghan was in Paris — the city in which her husband's mother, Princess Diana, lost her life — filming herself, feet up in her chauffeured SUV, driving past the tunnel where Diana was killed.

Truly: How 'humanitarian' was that?

It's logical to conclude that Meghan — by her own self-report, a perfectionist obsessed with details — knew how painful that would be not just to Prince William but to her own husband.

Then at Balenciaga, after doing a paparazzi walk from her hotel to her waiting SUV, Meghan was caught laughing at a model who tripped on the runway ('it's not catty, it's cruel'), then looking to her friend, Soho House Global membership Director Markus Anderson, to join her in mockery.

Anderson refused to make eye contact with Markle, instead silently shaking his head and appearing to say 'no' — in effect, telling her, 'We don't do that here.'

Markle's expression immediately darkened. Her jaw set itself tightly, as if in anger, and humiliated, she simply faced forward, as if she were a remonstrated child.

After the show, she attempted a fashion-world double-air kiss with the house's new creative director, Pierpaolo Piccioli — and what was meant to be an apex of chicness turned comical as the two bumped heads, awkwardly and repeatedly.

Finally, Meghan attempted to approach actress and Dame Kristen Scott Thomas, who was already in conversation. Meghan just stood there, staring at Thomas, then put her hand over her heart as if to say, 'I'm right here, just dying to meet you, please acknowledge me.'

So here Meghan was in Paris - the city in which her husband's mother, Princess Diana, lost her life - filming herself, feet up in her chauffeured SUV, driving past the tunnel where Diana was killed (pictured) 

At Balenciaga Meghan was caught laughing at a model who tripped on the runway (pictured, left) Markle's friend refused to make eye contact with Markle, silently shaking his head and appearing to say 'no' — in effect, telling her, 'We don't do that here.' (right)

Thomas did nothing of the sort, instead leaving Meghan's face to fall in utter rejection.

Dame Kristen Scott Thomas for next year's Nobel peace Prize!

And what's also gone unsaid is that Meghan was in Paris on her own, sans her loving husband or royal protection.

Harry has sued in the UK multiple times, claiming that the threats to him and his family are so severe that they couldn't possibly all come back to the UK without taxpayer-funded royal security.

But Meghan's okay in Paris?

Harry alleged, in a bombshell interview with the BBC in May following yet another court rejecting his petition for royal security, that 'I've discovered that some people do want history to repeat itself, which is pretty dark,' followed by yet another explicit and dark allegation against the royal family.

'I thought,' he said, 'that with all of the chaos that's happening, the one thing that I could rely on is my family keeping me safe. And not only did they decide to remove my security, but they also signaled to every single government around the world not to protect us.'

Every single government around the world!

So of course Meghan felt safe enough to go to Paris, scene of the literal crime. And of course Harry and Meghan felt safe enough to travel back to New York City — where, recall, they claimed to have been the victims of a high-speed paparazzi chase that was later debunked by their own taxi driver — to collect yet another meaningless award for their cheap lip service.

As they walked the New York step-and-repeat, Meghan paused as Harry appeared to glower and appeared to whisper 'come on now.'

As they walked the New York step-and-repeat, Meghan paused as Harry appeared to glower and appeared to whisper 'come on now' 

Moments after that, Meghan looked up at Harry, giving him her patented adoring gaze, all but pleading with him to look at her.

And he, it seems to me, refused. He stood there with a face like thunder, communicating to us all that he is none-too-pleased with Meghan and her stunt in Paris — pulled, no less, just weeks after Harry held a peace summit with King Charles.

Meghan lost any public sympathy long ago. But when she appears to lose the public support of her husband — well, things behind closed doors may be very dark, indeed.

Watch this space.