Good and bad faeries7/6/2023 She was anxious in an oversized dress: an exquisite metaphor because she didn’t fit in. As the character in the horror film says as the awful realisation unfolds: what kind of family is this exactly? Her paranoia, like Diana’s, was justified. There was Duchess Difficult and Tiaragate, and competing royal tears, and it all came from the palace: leaks about leaks, then. That’s the racist playbook, although misogyny, xenophobia and snobbery were handmaidens. She is no less, nor more, annoying than any other Californian actress.īut the palace and its acolytes in the media treated her appallingly, and then demonised her to excuse themselves. British people don’t talk like that unless they work in hotel marketing. “What is your preference?” she asked the late Queen, wondering who should get into the car first. We applaud materialism in other royal bodies and our objections to Meghan were initially stylistic. Watching Harry watch Meghan – on Netflix, of course – be wound into a dress by a battalion of stylists, I thought: no one is exploiting the comic potential here.īut no one is perfect either. I liked her until I saw her taste for couture, absurd in anyone who claims to love justice.
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