Optics. William and Kate’s PR team appear incapable of considering them.
The Royals never have been. But when this particularly calamitous week is over, the Cambridges will surely sit down with their lackeys and review the optics of a trip reinforcing the tropes that render them all obsolete.
The people of Jamaica protest against our uninvited trip? We’ll turn up anyway. The legacy of slavery and reparations still raw? We’ll playfully beat some drums - like we always do when we visit African, Caribbean and Asian countries - to reinforce some tired old stereotypes.
