Welcome to your latest edition of The London Standard. This week, we explore the complex issue of how Meghan Markle became so staggeringly divisive. Tanya Gold asks what she has done to deserve this treatment, in a piece that’s clever, funny and remarkably astute about a fairy tale gone wrong (my favourite line? “American Riviera Orchard — a satnav destination for a fantasist”).
I’m very proud of our new Standard podcast, which launches this week, about a young London socialite, his brutal killing by a Swiss aristocrat and his mother’s mission to bring his killer to justice. Read Katie Strick’s powerful piece here, and download the six-part true-crime series on Wondery+.
