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Royal Rot II: When Harry Met Meghan

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Which brings us to the point of the piece.

If British Royals are capable of using their power, their influence and their money to smear Meghan Markel, on the one hand, or to protect child-rapist Prince Andrew, "Randy Andy," on the other, who else might come under their authoritarian sway?

Would they protect a bumbling King Charles from charges of corruption? Would they help sell the UK's military presence in Ukraine as a noble cause? Would they give a nod to cutting taxes on corporations and privatizing rail service? Would they try to control the public perception of senior UK officials, like former PM's Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair? Thatcher's hatred of workers hollowed out the British middle class. Tony Blair famously lied his country into the disastrous invasion of Iraq, a war crime that killed as many as one million people but that, on the up side, made British military contractors rich. Would the Crown aid and abet their crimes, for example, by knighting the former PM's and thereby giving both a stamp of Royal approval? Of course they would.

Want more proof British Royals are liars and cheats, privileged pompadours and hate-filled racists?

After the Netflix series had aired, after Charles has been branded a liar, William called a brat and friends of the Royals called out for their bigotry, Queen Consort Camilla throws a Christmas party on 14 December and invites the "who's who of racists, liars, dumbasses and misogynists." Two days later, one of her special invitees, Jeremy Clarkson, pens a deeply misogynistic, deeply racist article demanding that Meghan Markel be paraded "naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant, 'Shame!' and throw lumps of excrement at her." A huge outcry ensues. Over 17,500 complaints, the most ever. 60 MP's write a letter condemning The Sun for publishing such hatred. Five day later the paper is forced to remove Clarkson's hit piece. And Camilla, the woman behind it all? Crickets.

While silence might be golden in some circumstances, here it's evidence of the most blatant complicity. As Hannah Stacey put it, Camilla's party and the Clarkson article "completely vindicate everything" Harry and Meghan said about the Royals in the Netflix series.

Rotted to their souls. Cheers, mate.

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BK Faunce is a retired Associate Professor of English (UMW / UCSC) specializing in British Romantic Literature, Film Theory and Writing. His recent work examines the use of state power and its impact on visual culture.

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