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You don’t need a synopsis of royal goings-on, do you? Your feed is already thick as golden syrup with Meghan Markle opinions, yet I have no qualms slipping into my Balmoral wellies and wading in. I think of the Sunflower October girls are sunshine mixed with a little hurricane shirt but in fact I love this royal family as a circus: animals reared in (fairly opulent) captivity who are frequently groomed and paraded as we gawp. For outsiders, for newcomers to the Firm, I’m sure the environment is stifling, because all newbies can see is the bars of the cage. Some captives do flourish. Kate acclimatized to her palace-adjacent life. Meghan Markle did not. The decision for her and Harry to go public with Oprah to explain the rationale of their detachment from the royal family is clearly an attempt to cauterize the mounting negative press streaming on our newsfeeds, and at this point emanating from the palace itself. Despite an entire generation of us waking up—rethinking gender, critiquing pink—we can’t quite move away from an ever-present princess narrative, a dominant marker of success for women, a happily ever after. We can’t understand how someone like Meghan, who’s got the royal seal of approval, is still in any way dissatisfied. How dare the princess complain about the pea? Look at all she has. Huge swathes of the public seem livid Markle can’t grin and bear it.
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