The latest churn of royal commentary makes no sense. Writing that a princess should be left alone isn’t leaving her alone. It’s stalking with keystrokes, and self-deception. We’ve said too much already. We over-reached and turned a common case of family agony into a melodrama that squeezed anything sane, and wholesome, out.
If Hilary Mantel were alive, I think this sequence — I almost wrote scene, because fictionalizing royalty is as addictive as it is vicious — she would say this is closer to a fairy tale than anything that has come before. It has the brutality.
