Good news – this is the last story we will write about Meghan, Harry and the Royals this year.

Sadly it won’t be the last ever, but small victories and all.

So Meghan cracked the nod to spend Christmas with Queenie at Sandringham Estate [above], and apparently that’s a “very public seal of royal approval”.

Seasoned royal journalists were said to be shocked when the news was announced, and many are saying it shows that the Royal Family wants to rebuild its relationship with the press.

I’m just feigning interest here, so let’s pluck from the Daily Beast:

By pre-announcing this news, Harry and Meghan have earned the gratitude of the media; newspapers can now assign, in an orderly fashion, reporters and photographers to Sandringham on Christmas Day, as a picture of Meghan flanked by the family will almost certainly be the biggest news of item of the slowest of news days.

The simple gesture of enlightening the media of their planned attendance contrasts mightily with William and Kate’s often petulant and sometimes paranoid attempts to keep their schedule, or even the name of their dog, secret…

While the importance of the advance announcement will perhaps be of interest only to the limited number of people whose work life corresponds closely with the fashion choices and whereabouts of Meghan Markle (check), the significance of having Meghan walking back from church to sit down for her Christmas dinner will be lost on no-one.

God, I don’t think I can do much more of this.

Of course they probe Meghan’s race, too:

Of Meghan’s bi-racial heritage, Robert Lacey, the historical consultant for the Netflix series The Crown and author of a new companion volume to the show The Crown: The Official Companion: Volume 1: Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, and the Making of a Young Queen (1947-1955) predicts that this will not be an issue.

The queen and senior royals, he says, have always been “instinctively color-blind” when it comes to race. “While it has been possible in the past to criticize [sic] the House of Windsor for snobbishness or class consciousness, they have never been accused of racial prejudice,” he says. “Marrying Meghan is Harry’s personal choice, there’s never been the slightest suggestion that there has been that attitude on the part of the Queen or Prince Philip or the family.”

Funny, because Prince Philip once told British students in China that “if you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed”.

You can find more of his ‘gaffes’ HERE.

Right, that’s over. You can find more of that deep digging on the Daily Beast HERE.

[source:dailybeast]