It has been 11 months and 318 days since the Duchess of Sussex officially joined the Royal Family, and it’s reasonable to say she’s changed The Firm in a few different ways over that time.

She’s dragged them a little further into the 21st century, that for sure. She’s given them a bit of star power – that’s true, too. And some might say she’s bumped the gene pool’s mean intelligence quota up a few notches.

But there is one claim about the Windsors – made increasingly often these days – that certainly shouldn’t be chalked up to the Duchess’s arrival: that it is she, with her out-there Californian ways and former existence as an “#inspirational” lifestyle blogger, who has transformed the Royal Family into a bunch of New Age eccentrics.

“The Windsors are going all Gwyneth,” the Guardian sighed in January, referring to actress Gwyneth Paltrow’s second career as high priestess of scientifically dubious wellness fads, through her brand Goop, “and there is a suggestion that it might be Meghan’s influence.”

In fairness, there has been an upturn in tabloid reports of Paltrow-esque activity among royals in recent months – but then there’s also been an upturn in tabloid reports of everything the Duchess has done in recent months. The Guardian’s declaration came in the week the Duke of Sussex told a Buddhist monk in Liverpool that he meditates daily (said monk, Kelsang Sonam, then gave him a copy of 8 Steps To Happiness), and shortly after the Duchess of Cambridge revealed she’s keen on the shinrin-yoku, the Japanese activity of “forest bathing”, which was previously known as going for a walk.