The first episode of Meghan of Montecito’s lifestyle show With Love, Meghan aired on March 4 on Netflix: Palace Core, the duchess’s latest moonshot at the appearance of a perfect life. When I think of Meghan I think: before she was an actress, she was a calligrapher, which is a search for beauty – for perfection - in the mundane, and there is something touching, and heartbreaking, about that.
Due to a media as obsessed with royalty as it is unwilling to admit it how unhealthy this is – princesses sell, dead princess sell more - Meghan is now an archetype, a thing, existing to be projected onto, and controlled. This is the royal fate. You can buy a Prince William doll on Amazon, or an Elizabeth II puzzle. They are toys, and, if they don’t want to go mad, they must know they are toys.
