Monday, March 4, 2019

There is a growing sense in much of the UK media that the princess is not ‘one of us’

Seventeen years ago, I was pregnant in New York and some lovely friends held a baby shower. One American mate bought me some tiny Gucci bootees: I still have them, pristine and boxed, as a memento of a lovely, mad time.

I remembered them when I read some of the reactions to the trip to New York by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, when her not just generous, but wildly wealthy, friends – such as Serena Williams and the Clooneys – coughed up a reported £330,000 for a baby shower in a top Manhattan hotel. No public money was spent on Meghan’s party, unless you count the security detail for members of the royal family. Yet Libby Purves, in a fabulously damning piece in the Times, wrote that while such “daft flaunting of wealth” was to be expected among stars, “the clash comes when a free-spending American TV celebrity, the independent Ms Markle, becomes the British Queen’s granddaughter-in-law”.

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