Once upon a time.
1. Meghan is getting an award. Paid for or not she is getting an award.
2. She dials a pap (BackGrid) and tips them off that they'll be going to dinner after she gets her award. Just follow the convoy.
3. The paps follow them and perhaps try and get ahead of the SUVs in order to get into position to get a good shot. One of the SUVs, not in on the idea paps are collaborating with Meghan, does its job and squares off with the pap vehicle(s) causing traffic chaos.
4. The Sussexes decide that they are being followed/harrassed and make a decision to exploit their pap call and record this CHASE because they are so thirsty for content.
5. They switch to a taxi because of this ordeal, the narrative becomes they were worried about paps knowing their destination and the optics of the VIPs in a humble cab reserved for plebs makes for a good contrast. Backgrid get pics of this.
6. The following day Meghan is ridiculed as The Queen of Peoples Hertz. No mainstream news covers her award to her narcissistic chagrin.
7. Meghan decides to use their CHASE content early so as to deflect.
8. Gets flying monkey Scobie to make a dramatic statement about a two hour chase which was nearly catastrophic.
9. Mainstream media latch onto the Diana/Pap/Chase angle and cover the story. Meghans award is mentioned as part of the coverage.
10. Harry, with a case about to be thrown out, swallows his pride and goes with this being the closest he felt to what Mummy must have gone through. It is quite difficult to get up to 65mph in New York traffic but whatever as he hopes the pulling at the heart strings might serve as a hail mary pass in salvaging getting paid for security but, surmising this is a lost cause, with his life at such risk it might get his family to finally make contact and his dad to stump up the money for son who was born into the risk.
11. Everyone involved with varying degrees of politeness calls complete bullshit on their attention seeking dramatics.
The End.