Montecito is a long way from Kensington Palace, but the social math is starting to look familiar. According to a report published by Page Six on May 16, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been quietly dropped by a cluster of A-list acquaintances — and by the account of at least one person close to the couple, the penny has not dropped on their end.
“They don't get it. They never think it is them,” an unnamed Sussex insider told the outlet. It is the kind of quote that writes its own punchline, and it landed accordingly on social media within hours of publication.
The Sussexes left royal life in early 2020, settled into a $14.7 million estate in Montecito, and set about building what they described as an independent platform. What followed — the Oprah interview, the Netflix docuseries, Harry's memoir Spare, a succession of disclosed private conversations — gave them a global audience and, reportedly, a shrinking dinner-party list.
Hollywood operates on its own version of the royal rulebook: access, discretion, and the reasonable expectation that what happens at your house stays there. Sources familiar with the California celebrity circuit have noted, without particular surprise, that figures who value those norms tend to calibrate accordingly.
The Sussexes' representatives did not respond to the Page Six report. Their Archewell Foundation has a slate of projects listed through 2026.