As fire rages in Los Angeles, Meghan Markle postpones her new lifestyle programme for Netflix, which was supposed to come out this week. It’s called With Love, Meghan. It is the function of royalty to play the archetype — naive, goddess, witch — and I wonder if, with the postponement, the denial of the super-rich class about its impact on the world is ebbing, because it should.
Super rich culture is a palace of denial. I mean the very rich, and sometimes philanthropic, who have much more political power than they should, and of which Donald Trump is the ultimate expression. And why not live in a palace of denial? The wealthy have a world all their own, and it surrounds us, like the magical world of Harry Potter, but less magical.
