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Three weeks after Meghan Markle’s interview with Oprah Winfrey, I’m still thinking about a striking, slightly overlooked moment: when Meghan appealed to the I’m The Personal Trainer You’re The Victim T-Shirt Furthermore, I will do this diametrically opposed fandoms behind her and Kate Middleton. “So much of what I have seen play out is this idea of polarity,” Meghan said. “If you love me, you don’t have to hate her. And if you love her, you don’t need to hate me.”I sat in stunned silence through most of the two-hour interview but this comment nearly made me yelp in recognition. Here was Meghan acknowledging, before an estimated 17 million viewers, a toxic dynamic that has raged online for years: the deeply divided “team Kate versus team Meghan” camps that measure loyalty to one duchess in hatred of the other. I’ve covered Meghan and the intersection of racist, sexist media narratives attacking her from their earliest days, but my Twitter mentions have nevertheless been rife with criticism from Meghan fans about how disingenuous I must be…because I have also committed the cardinal sin of writing favorably about Kate in the past.“The polarization really is analogous to what we’ve seen in politics. None of us knows anybody who is neutral about Donald Trump,” Susan E. Kelley, founder of the Duchess of Cambridge style blog What Kate Wore, told me. “I see a lot of that with the Meghan and Kate worlds.”Once upon a time, What Kate Wore and What Meghan Wore were sister sites, sharing each other’s logos and links at the top of each home page. But last year, after Meghan and Prince Harry stepped down as senior royals, Kelley and What Meghan Wore editor Susan Courter decided to split the sites, in large part due to increasing tension and ugliness between Meghan and Kate fans. Monitoring hateful, sometimes racist comments on Facebook and Instagram became a draining daily practice for the Susans, who remain close: “There were a couple of times we were on the phone with each other in tears because we were so exhausted,” Kelley said. Once, Kelley accidentally tweeted a Kate story from the Meghan account: “a simple human error, but people treated it as the most cataclysmic, diabolical thing that could have happened.” At What Meghan Wore, Courter began to feel she couldn’t, for example, wish Kate a happy birthday “because I’m going to get destroyed and I’m going to lose followers.”For the extremely online, it isn’t enough to be a fan of either woman. Being a stan requires that love be mutually exclusive. The Kate-Meghan chasm “speaks to stan culture,” Omid Scobie, royal correspondent and coauthor of Finding Freedom, the 2020 book about Prince Harry and Meghan’s departure as senior royals, told me, summing up the philosophy thusly: “You’re either team Nikki or Cardi. You cannot be both.” Never mind the irony, as Kelley sees it, of bullies mobilizing behind Kate and Meghan, two vocal anti-bullying advocates: “Both women would find it abhorrent to see some of the things that are said in their names.”Scobie is one of the most well-respected reporters in the royal ecosystem, but as a Meghan specialist, he still gets nervous to post about Kate on Twitter, “because then I feel like there’ll be a sea of voices that don’t like the fact that I focused on her.” Meanwhile, “if I write about Meghan, you can guarantee that half the profile pictures in comments underneath are Cambridge photos, all with very negative comments.” Team Sussex is often louder, he said, in response to the outsize racist abuse Meghan has faced: “There are a lot of people who feel that if they’re not sticking up for the Sussexes, then no one else is, because the [British] media isn’t, and the royal family isn’t.”Scobie started out reporting on Prince William and Kate Middleton, documenting their first royal tours and the birth of Prince George. When his focus later turned to Meghan and Harry, he felt the blowback not only online, but eventually from within the monarchy itself: “It was only last year that someone at the palace told me that I picked my corner and now I have to stay in it.”It’s a false choice for the subset of royal watchers who have followed both women. Kate became my gateway to modern royal obsession circa 2001, when we both met cute guys in college that we’d go on to date on and off before marrying them—in her case, with considerable more fanfare—in 2011. When Meghan, an avowed feminist came on the scene in her ripped Mother jeans in 2017, she captured my attention (as an outspoken American myself) in an entirely new, deeper way. How a biracial American woman with a fully formed life would fit—or not—into the confines of the British monarchy seemed ripe for the analyzing (little did I know). “Kate was the one I felt seen by in my 20s,” Hitha Palepu, a longtime royal watcher and author of the forthcoming book We’re Speaking: The Life Lessons of Kamala Harris, told me, while Meghan is the kind of friend she craves in her 30s: “I want to go pick eggs with her at Archie’s Chick Inn.”Kate and Meghan together at Wimbledon in 2019. The purported Kate–versus–Meghan divide has never been about the women, really, but the forces of racism and sexism working against them, a mirror held up to the unflinching British monarchy and toxic tabloid media. In reality, according to Scobie, “there wasn’t much of a relationship” between the duchesses of Sussex and Cambridge. “There was no fallout, but it was just two women that weren’t that close” and simply “didn’t have a lot in common.” But it should surprise no one that “Sisters-in-Law Quietly Tolerate Each Other” doesn’t make for a salacious headline in the rabid British press. “The bottom line of the Murdochs and the other white men who own these newspapers: There is money in drama,” Palepu said. “Even if that drama isn’t real. Especially if that drama isn’t real.”Never mind that their husbands, Prince William and Prince Harry, were experiencing their own issues: The women, as ever, were destined to take the fall. The duchesses were pitted against each other from the start with catfight narratives, from a 2018 Telegraph report claiming Meghan made Kate cry over flower girl dresses (Meghan told Oprah the reverse actually happened), to a Sun story claiming the two got into an “explosive row” after Meghan was rude to a member of Kate’s staff (the palace issued a rare denial) and a trollish Daily Mail piece contrasting their “very” different makeup palettes at Buckingham Palace. Us Weekly got in on the action in the States, blaring “They’ll Never Be Friends” on a 2019 cover.Elaine Lui, founder and editor of laineygossip.com and a host on CTV’s Etalk and The Social, called out the sexist depictions in royal coverage. “Stop focusing on the women,” she said. “The power is where the brothers are.”Famed royal biographer Andrew Morton has covered the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Duchess of Sussex, Wallis Simpson, and, perhaps most notably, the Princess of Wales in his debut book Diana: Her True Story. For his latest tome, his gaze shifts to Queen Elizabeth, her younger sister Princess Margaret, and their sometimes-fraught relationship in Elizabeth and Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters, out March 30. According to the book, young Elizabeth once told her governess that “Margaret always wants what I’ve got.” And Margaret, in her fifties, once remarked that she was “still playing second best after all these years, I guess I’ll be second best to my grave.”The book delves deep into the sisters’ incredibly close but often tense bond while also bringing top of mind the complicated “heir and spare” sibling dynamic that, up to the present day with Prince William and Prince Harry, has played out over and over again in the press. “Both sisters were universally known and almost constantly surrounded by people, yet in so many ways they remained indecipherable to everyone but each other,” Morton writes. “It was from this position of magnificent isolation that the sisters formed their inseparable, intuitive bond.”Here, Morton unpacks the sisters’ relationship, while also considering what Diana would think of the family today, and which royal he would take to tea (it’s not who you think).Your book examines the lives of and the relationship between Elizabeth and Margaret. Describe the dynamic of the sisters’ relationship pre-abdication and, once the abdication happened in 1936–when Elizabeth was 10 and Margaret was only six–how it changed.Andrew Morton: They were treated just alike–same socks, same skirts–and in that way, Elizabeth was brought down to Margaret’s level, because there’s a four-year age difference. They were twins. There were two princesses; there was no possibility in the minds of many, including the Duke and Duchess of York, that the Duke would ever become king, and that his daughter would ever become queen. They lived in the shadows of Uncle David, the Prince of Wales, a charismatic figure. When he abdicated in December 1936, it was an incredible blow and transformed the lives of Elizabeth and Margaret as importantly as their parents. The dynamic changed; Elizabeth was treated as the heir presumptive and, as such, she had a slightly different education, much to Margaret’s chagrin, as she went down a slightly different path. Instead of being treated like twins, they were treated separately and educated separately, and their lives began to diverge.Unpack the dynamic between the heir and the spare, or second born. It has always been fraught, from Elizabeth and Margaret to Charles and Andrew and now to William and Harry. Is there always tension between the heir and the spare? If so, why?There’s always tension, because the heir gets the final say, and the spare, however good, however brilliant, however dynamic, however charismatic they are, is always second in command, the wingman. Forever playing No. 2 on the bill. That’s been the case for centuries, and, in a funny kind of way, Diana recognized that. When I interviewed her, she recalled that she wanted Harry to be William’s backup in the nicest possible way. And, in a way, Margaret was Elizabeth’s backup in the nicest possible way. But there’s an awful lot of jealousy because Margaret was the one who commanded attention and she loved the spotlight. It’s a complex relationship; it’s one of loyalty and support, but also primal jealousy. On one occasion Margaret slams into the Queen’s drawing room at Windsor Castle whilst the Prime Minister was there; she walks in and, in addressing her, says, “If you weren’t Queen, nobody would talk to you.” That is to say she wasn’t that interesting. You see this jealousy and you also see this loyalty that Margaret had towards Elizabeth.Describe the sisters’ differing personalities.Elizabeth was dutiful, stoical, an introvert; Margaret was extrovert, quixotic, emotional. They were the yin and the yang, and, in a way, every royal has a shadow self; Margaret was the shadow of Elizabeth, Harry is the shadow of William. And they’re different personalities but yoked by blood. It’s the same as Diana and Fergie—Fergie was kind of the shadow character, and Diana was the one who was illuminated. It’s the same with Meghan and Catherine—endless compare and contrast. I find it very interesting that we understand the sisters through each other, and we tend to think that the other person doesn’t have the same abilities or the same interests as the primary one. Princess Elizabeth was quite a good tap dancer and quite a good mimic and very funny when she wanted to be. But because her sister loved the limelight, loved the spotlight, and wanted everybody to listen to her, it would overshadow the sister [Elizabeth]. We’re used to talking about Elizabeth as being stoical, the sensible one, and Margaret, the creative one, the theatrical one, but Elizabeth did have those qualities in her.For our readers who might not know, would you describe the Peter Townsend melee and explain how it impacted the sisters’ relationship?This is where The Crown got it wrong, to be honest with you: It was always said that the Queen was hard-faced about it and forced her sister to choose between the Church or Townsend. The problem was the “D” word—he [Townsend] was divorced. At that time, the head of the Church [of England] was the Queen, and the Head of State was the Queen. At that time, the Church of England would not allow divorcees to marry in the church, and the monarchy, as head of the Church, was also against divorce.If it would have put a taint or a stain on the monarchy, the Queen was prepared to [allow Margaret to marry] for her sister’s happiness. Contrary to what everybody’s saying, far from forcing Townsend and Margaret apart, the Queen did her utmost. The Queen was prepared to accept criticism from the Church and the government; she was prepared to take a hit for the institution, which was quite remarkable, really, given the fact that the whole premise behind being king or queen is to protect the institution of the monarchy which, by and large, the Queen has done assiduously. But for this particular instance, for her sister, she was prepared to lay down the monarchy for her sister’s happiness.Despite their oftentimes contentious relationship, Elizabeth was gutted when Margaret died in 2002. How was their relationship at the end of Margaret’s life?As it was throughout their life—fractious. Margaret was tiresome and solicitous, but they were both very loving. It’s interesting that the Queen Mother died just a few months after Princess Margaret. The Queen made a public address—one of the few she’s made—thanking the 300,000 people that came out onto the streets and walked by her [the Queen Mother’s] coffin at Westminster Hall in London. She said privately if she had to speak as well about her sister Margaret, she would have broken down and wept—which, you can count the number of times the Queen has cried in public on the fingers of half of one hand. It was quite a remarkable admission. Initially, when Margaret was ill the Queen said “get on with it,” because Margaret always tended to be more theatrical about her illnesses—she didn’t have a cold, she had double pneumonia. So, people were a little bit exasperated by her. But when she genuinely had a stroke, in the royal family, you don’t “do ill,” you just get on with it. Margaret was keen to just get on with it and obscure any kind of illness. Towards the end, she really was in a poor state.How would the monarchy be different were Margaret born first?Some of her childhood friends thought it would have been more fun for Margaret to have been born first, to be born queen, because she was more extroverted, more extravagant, more theatrical. You would have seen a more metropolitan type of monarchy, with the arts, ballet—which she loved—theater, poetry. You wouldn’t have seen so much of the hunting and shooting and fishing and the horse racing; Margaret was a good rider, but she was far more a townie. You’d have seen Queen Margaret not spending the winter at Sandringham, freezing at the best of times; she would have been on a plane to the Caribbean.What compelled you to write this book?This morning, Kate Middleton met with paramedics and staff of the Newham Ambulance Station in East London to hear more about their experiences dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. For the appearance, the Duchess of Cambridge once again did tonal dressing right, slipping into a head-to-toe beige look that included some of her most-worn labels. The monochromatic look is one of her signature style moves: One of her favorites is an all-olive look, which she’s worn on multiple occasions in London, and she even piled on red tartan for Christmas in Wales last year.Middleton wore a double-breasted camel coat by Massimo Dutti that she has worn a few times before (it’s sold out now, unfortunately). The outerwear was the focal point of the outfit—another Duchess signature—and she accessorized it with a turtleneck, suede pumps, and a chain-strap Métier London bag, another favorite label of hers. All in coordinating camel colors, of course. Covering one’s self entirely in beige is hard to make a bold fashion look out of, but somehow for Middleton, it never gets old. She can effortlessly turn a neutral into a style statement.

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The world just got another glimpse of Kristen Stewart as Diana, Princess of Wales—and a replica of her iconic engagement ring takes center frame.Production company Neon shared a picture of Stewart in costume for her new Pablo Larraín film, Spencer, on Instagram. In it, the I’m The Personal Trainer You’re The Victim T-Shirt Furthermore, I will do this actor wears a plaid coat, chunky ’80s-esque pearls, and a white turtleneck. Her hair is coiffed into Diana’s signature blonde cut, and her ring-clad hand is perfectly framed. “That sapphire,” the studio wrote in the caption.It appears Stewart is recreating a look that Diana wore in a 1989 visit to Portsmouth, England. Now, Spencer takes place in December 1993—during the weekend in Sandringham when Princess Diana officially decided to divorce Prince Charles—so it’s unclear whether the outfit is donned during a flashback scene or whether the costume designers just decided to dress Stewart in a similar throwback style. Regardless, it’s quite the historical homage.In February 2018, three months before Prince Harry married Meghan Markle in Windsor, England, John Oliver made an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. “You must be really excited about the royal wedding,” Colbert said to Oliver. “No,” Oliver bluntly responded. “I would not blame her if she pulled out of this in the last minute. I don’t think you need to have just seen the pilot episode of The Crown to get a basic sense of she might be marrying into a family that could cause her some emotional complications.”Three years later, the clip went viral on social media. But not because it was funny—because it was chillingly prescient.“Who’s here after watching Meghan and Harry interview with Oprah,” reads a top comment. It has over 5,000 likes.When promos aired for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s first joint interview since leaving the royal family, it seemed like it could be a dishy tell-all. At least Twitter treated it as such: There were tweets about making popcorn or tea (because Harry and Meghan were about to spill, get it?). Some users even compared it to the Super Bowl.Yet those two hours took a dark and troubling turn. The duchess revealed that she—pregnant, isolated, and besieged by negative press reports—had suicidal thoughts. The duke’s father, Prince Charles, no longer took his calls. And perhaps the most damning: Before their son, Archie, was born, an unnamed person in the palace inquired how dark his skin would be. When all was said and done, #abolishthemonarchy was trending.The queen soon put out a 61-word statement. “The whole family is saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for Harry and Meghan. The issues raised, particularly that of race, are concerning. While some recollections may vary, they are taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately,” it read. “Harry, Meghan and Archie will always be much-loved family members.” A day later, a reporter asked Prince William if they were a racist family. “We’re very much not a racist family,” he replied back. This did not go over well on the internet, which quickly pointed out that, for a century, this family was the very image of imperialism.The House of Windsor is no stranger to scandal. In fact, they’re frequently engulfed in it. But this time feels different. Whereas so many other incidents centered around moral failings of individuals, the sad saga of Harry and Meghan resonates with many as a failing of an institution—one that not only failed to protect a beloved son and his bride from bigotry and bias but may have even perpetuated the problem. And that’s a big difference: Dickie Arbiter, a former palace press secretary, told Vogue that while Princess Diana’s 1995 interview with the BBC was certainly a bombshell, Harry and Meghan’s was more of an earthquake. “[Diana’s] was all about her relationship with her husband, the state of the marriage,” he said. “It wasn’t attacking the monarchy.”At 1,200 years old, the British monarchy is one of the oldest living institutions on earth. As empires crumbled, monarchs were overthrown, and princes rendered pretenders, against all odds this bloodline still remains on its gilded thrones.The very bones that keep Buckingham Palace intact are rigid and ancient, derived from laws, acts, and edicts stemming from 1215’s Magna Carta. Over centuries, a firm yet fragile balance of power has been hammered out between the monarch and parliament. The legacy of royals who tried—and failed—to assert their own agenda over them looms large: In the 1640s, after Charles I attempted to assume absolute power, the English parliament chopped off his head. So it’s the sacrosanct commitment to structure, and their rigid responsibility to not rock the boat, that’s kept these royals afloat for a millennium.“One of the reasons that the House of Windsor has survived when a lot of European households have fallen is because they (a) have this ruthless survival instinct and (b) it’s precisely because nothing’s really changed,” says royal historian and biographer Anna Pasternak. “They haven’t adapted.”But the question is: Do they need to?Britain—as with so much of the world, including America—is at a crossroads. “Are they outward looking and multicultural? Or is this a more closed, inward-looking place that is more reluctant to engage?” asks Arianne Chernock, a Boston University professor who specializes in modern British history. “I think that the monarchy could have used Meghan to help advance that more inclusive vision, to say: ‘We are a place that’s all about fusion.’”But to many, they didn’t just miss that opportunity. They blew it.The majority of the United Kingdom’s younger generation feels for Harry and Meghan. According to YouGov, 61% of 18- to 24-year-olds believe the couple was treated unfairly by the royal family. Meanwhile, for those over 65, that shrinks to 15%.“The younger generation is just constantly questioning, ‘Is this what represents our country? Does this fit anymore?’” says Omid Scobie, coauthor of Finding Freedom, a book about Prince Harry and Meghan’s departure from the royal family, and ABC’s royal correspondent.In the choice between speaking your truth in the California sunshine and a stiff upper lip in rainy ol’ England, Gen Z went with the former.So that royal mantra of “never explain, never complain” may be outdated. “We want our public figures to be transparent, candid, open, and honest. The mystery of the royal family that made them so compelling in the past is now working against them because this very serious allegation has been made,” says Scobie. “The fact that they’re not speaking, or addressing it properly, only contributes to additional damage to their reputation.”“You can’t just hope that it goes away,” he adds.Before I settled in to watch Oprah’s Sunday-night interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex three nights ago, I had intended to write a story about her subjects’ style choices for the interview. Straddling the ocean as I have the past year, half the time at home in Manhattan, half the time in the English countryside, I have found myself torn between two very different readings of this extraordinary couple: in America, a version of Meghan Markle as a self-actualized style maven with a female-empowerment platform who seemed to have brought her unhappy prince and his demons to a happy place. In Britain, a sense that she was a wily, shrewish manipulator (“Hurricane Meghan”) who snared her well-meaning but unwary prince; was dazzled by the idea of the job but discovered too late its dreary restrictive realities and its focus on blindly unquestioning obedience and embrace of duty; and stole him away to a distant land of self-love, self-realization, and humbug. To be perfectly frank, I was somewhat ambivalent myself: The relentless onslaught of the British tabloid press is difficult to resist, try as one might. It’s a juggernaut.So let’s get the clothes and their messaging out of the way first: Prince Harry, stripped now of his uniforms but embracing the Montecito lifestyle in dégagé J.Crew; Meghan channeling the Duchess of Windsor in a pregnancy-appropriate Giorgio Armani triple-silk-georgette dress with an abstract-print splosh that apparently represented lotus flowers (symbolizing “enlightenment, self-regeneration and rebirth,” as Town & Country assured me). She accented the dress with a trio of aquamarine teardrops from Pippa Small that she’d previously worn in Tonga during the couple’s 2018 tour—when she proved to be such a popular, telegenic whizz at the job that the Institution (the palace administrative infrastructure—or was it the Firm, the royal family and key courtiers and advisors?) apparently balked and the problems began—and a diamond tennis bracelet that appeared to have been the one that had belonged to her late mother-in-law, whose own star turn in the antipodes in 1983 similarly signaled the beginning of the end of her own very short-lived honeymoon with the Firm and indeed her husband. (See The Crown, season three, episode six, Terra Nullius.) Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, finished it all off with fiendishly vertiginous Aquazzura stiletto heels that seemed ill-suited to the manicured lawns of the neighboring friend’s garden where the trio found themselves, shaded by a verdant brick pergola from the glorious California light, but perhaps were intended to suggest that the wearer was not to be trifled with. The Duchess of Windsor, I was reminded, had the soles of her shoes polished in case they were revealed when she crossed her ankles.And then the interview began. Five minutes in, after some airy persiflage (“Does one Google ‘how to curtsy’?” asked Oprah playfully), the bombs started exploding, dampish squibs in the beginning. Petty, thought I, when the Duchess of Sussex assured us that it was the Duchess of Cambridge who had made her cry and not vice versa as was widely reported at the time: Surely emotions always run high in the lead-up to a wedding and many tears have been spilled over bridesmaids dresses. Perhaps both ladies cried? “She has apologized,” said Meghan, “I have forgiven her.” I clenched my buttocks at the thought of the Duchess of Cambridge’s reaction to that nugget of magnanimity.Oprah gave a master class, and so did Meghan, who is, lest we forget, a practiced thespian. Anyway, her timing is flawless. “Were you silent, or were you silenced?” quizzed Oprah. Pregnant pause, perhaps even long enough for another endless commercial break. “The latter,” said the duchess, looking Oprah, or was it the camera, square in the eye.I soon had to start writing the quotes down as my mind was being blown. Blown. You must remember that this is a boy who grew up praying for the queen and the royal family during morning assembly at school and still instinctively jumps up like a jack-in-the-box when I hear the strains of the national anthem.“I just didn’t want to be alive anymore.” At this point I’m nervously clutching pearls.“I’m not going to live my life in fear…. I don’t know how they could expect that after all this time we could still be silent if there is an active role in perpetuating falsehoods…. Not only was I not being protected, but they were prepared to lie to protect other members of the family.” Lunging for the smelling salts.But when the Duchess of Sussex deftly elided an unnamed family member’s queries about her child’s skin color with the stripping of a princely title and ergo security protection—hence the couple’s need to flee—I darn near lost it. Incendiary. (Oprah later offered the disclaimer that it was neither the queen nor her gaffe-prone husband, the ailing Prince Philip, who raised the issue of skin color.)Two hours later I felt as though I were listening to escapees from a Scientology-type cult.****In the lead-up to the Oprah interview, the palace implemented an exceedingly gauche counterstrategy, launching an inquiry into whether Meghan bullied her staff, that was enthusiastically championed by the press. I wonder if any of them believe that Prince Philip and his children have never berated their staff, driven them to tears or even to quit. Perhaps the palace’s efforts would have been better focused on investigating the truly explosive claims about the queen’s beloved son Prince Andrew, who might politely be described as feckless and has reportedly so far declined to cooperate with the U.S. Department of Justice in its ongoing investigations around the nefarious goings-on of the late Jeffrey Epstein.Two days later, the Firm somewhat redeemed itself with the elegant sobriety of its official response: “The whole family is saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for Harry and Meghan.” But there is clearly a lot of work to be done.Harry was right to mutter about the “colonial undertones” of the coverage of his fiancée and later wife. (And Harry should know something about colonialism: When he served in the British army, rising to the rank of captain, he himself was involved in two operational tours during the occupation of Afghanistan.) Harry, whose teenage fancy-dress choices have not always erred on the side of political correctness, seems genuinely to have opened up to the realities of racism through his relationship with Meghan.From the beginning, the viciousness of the British press, tabloid and otherwise, was astounding to me.In 2017, the Daily Mail, featuring Harry and Meghan’s touching engagement picture on the front page, saw fit to run the headline from their columnist Sarah Vine (wife of the politician Michael Gove, who twice ran unsuccessfully for leader of the Conservative Party): “Yes, they’re joyfully in love. So why do I have a niggling worry about this engagement picture?” (Webster’s defines the word niggling thus: “bothersome or persistent especially in a petty or tiresome way.” Nevertheless, the word seemed a surprising choice and jumped from the page, as presumably it was intended to.)I’d already had a run-in with the machinery of the British royalty-covering press corps when I was dispatched to Nepal in 1993 to cover a visit of Prince Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, to a series of leprosy missions there for one of my first Vogue assignments. Patrick Jephson, the princess’s appropriately courtly private secretary, had practically begged us not to go, explaining that with the pool system (whereby one or two photographers or journalists would be picked to accompany the princess on some of her visits and would subsequently pool their images or writing with everyone else) we would never have access to the princess. Anna was hearing none of it, so off I was sent into the lion’s den.I arrived in the Vogue-branded cap that, to my deep mortification, Anna had insisted I wear to discover that there were literally hundreds of royal correspondents and hardened photographers, in addition to my good self, photographer Dewey Nicks, and his assistant, the very existence of whom was considered comical by the rest of the press corps, who soon dubbed us Hewey, Dewey, and Louey. In our caps we did look like a trio of ducklings. We were all marshaled in an unruly throng behind stanchions at the airport to document the arrival of the princess when she landed. Princess Diana stepped off the plane in sky blue pleats, turned her back on us, and turned instead to be greeted by the kumari, or child goddesses, lined up to meet her. Unfortunately, as we soon discovered, the infamous Squidgy tapes—illicit recordings of the princess’s exceedingly intimate telephone conversations with Major James Hewitt—had been released that morning by The Sun, and the princess was not in the mood to play ball. In fact, unspoken pact with the tabloids shattered, she turned her back on the press corps for the entirety of the trip so that no one could get a single usable image. The atmosphere in the press canteens was not, let me tell you, jovial. The princess, incidentally, only let down her guard once. On about day four or so, she was seated outside a hut in a leprosy community in the distant hills that had taken us hours to reach, communing with some medical professionals and village elders. She looked up for a moment, saw our Vogue caps among the jostling throng of paparazzi, and laughed. We got our cover image. I digress.Thirty years later, the British tabloid press appears unsoftened. The morning after the Oprah interview was aired in the U.K., the royal correspondents and pundits—pretty much all white, middle-aged, and caught in a dance to the death with the Firm, as Prince Harry suggested—sprang predictably to vocal life. ITV’s incendiary Piers Morgan has since resigned after backlash over his claims that no one could believe a word that sprang from Meghan’s lips. The Daily Mail’s Richard Kay protested that the Sussexes’ “implication that our island nation is a country where racist attitudes flourish is a travesty,” a statement that may give pause to many of my country’s Black and brown citizens. Might I suggest the artist-filmmaker Steve McQueen’s Small Axe—a magisterial quintet of movies about the so-called Windrush generation of Afro-Caribbean immigrants—as a useful primer? The Empire Windrush landed at Tilbury Docks in 1948, and McQueen’s 2020 oeuvre might be the first time that these stories have been told on the BBC.The Daily Telegraph’s Allison Pearson, meanwhile, dubbed the interview “a devastating act of lèse-majesté.” “I’m sure that this profoundly polarizing interview will be a big hit with Americans and with the younger generation which sees ‘speaking my truth’ as fabulous personal empowerment,” she wrote. “Older British viewers may find their toes curling. And their lips.” That’s a really loaded piece of toast, as Oprah might say (and did, to my absolute delight). Perhaps these are the same aging Britons who inflicted Brexit on younger and future generations, clinging to the myth of Britain as a doughty island nation with an empire and an unshakeable royal family. Anyway, don’t get me started.Let’s get back to Meghan’s frocks!There was a time in the living memory of Britain’s monarch when the greatest threat to the crown was seen to be embodied in the trim person of Wallis Warfield Simpson, another American divorcée with a complicated back story and fastidious taste. She and the Duke of Windsor, future King Edward VIII, made spiteful fun of the duke’s sister-in-law, the sweet-faced Duchess of York, calling her “Cookie” in reference to the scurrilous rumors that her mother was the French cook at her childhood home of Glamis Castle. When Edward VIII abdicated the throne “for the woman I love,” he thrust his stuttering, ill-prepared younger brother into the role as King George VI, and his wife, the former Duchess of York, became Queen Elizabeth. She would come to exact her revenge, blaming the Windsors for inflicting the pressures of the job on her husband and ultimately for driving him to an early grave at the age of 56. (The king, who was a very heavy smoker, died of coronary thrombosis.) Their daughter Princess Elizabeth ascended to the throne and, as we all know, has devoted herself to the sacred vows that she made at her 1953 coronation and to the soul-destroying litany of events that make up the royal year with unimpeachable diligence and dignity for nigh on 70 years.The Duchess of Windsor’s embrace of maniacal chic seems to have made the royal family flinch from the very notion. So the idea that the Meghan appears to have modeled her formal looks on the Duchess of Windsor’s tailored perfection (Wallis wore Mainbocher and Schiaparelli, Dior, and Saint Laurent; Meghan wears Roland Mouret, Stella McCartney, and of course Clare Waight Keller for Givenchy) and her off-duty looks on, well, the late Diana, Princess of Wales, seems like some sweet sartorial revenge.But the resemblance to the two ladies themselves is, of course, tenuous. When Lady Diana Spencer met Prince Charles, she was a woefully undereducated virgin raised on almost Victorian principles in an aristocratic household with an inborn reverence for the crown. When Meghan met Harry, she was a sophisticated woman with a career, life experience, agency of her own, and apparently had no idea what she was getting into. (Curtsy? But she’s your grandmother?)Despite the constraints of her early years with the Firm, Diana, perhaps almost miraculously, grew into an extraordinary woman with a preternatural gift for empathy and compassion. The Duchess of Windsor was an elegant flibbertigibbet who had a soft spot for Hitler and dangerous walkers. The British establishment saw to it that during the war the Windsors, deemed a security risk, were shipped to what they considered an ignominious posting in the Bahamas. The duchess commissioned the decorator Mrs. Winthrop Curtis Bradley to make over the governor’s mansion in Nassau in a modish version of navy and white Caribbean chic and ordered shantung frocks from Mainbocher to match. After the war, they were exiled to a café-society existence in Paris. The sharp-tongued Washington chronicler Susan Mary Alsop wrote to her friend Marietta Tree in 1945 about a meeting with the Duke of Windsor, noting that he had spent the day watching the duchess buy a hat, been driven to the bois to see some American soldiers play football, and returned home to find the duchess in the middle of her French lesson. “He is pitiful,” noted Alsop. “I never saw a man so bored.”