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People who write almost exclusively about the Royal Family have a weird obsession with tights, or stockings, as we often call them in South Africa.

It seems like an inordinate amount of time is spent looking at the legs of female Royals to determine whether or not they’re wearing them, what colour they are, and what it all means.

One of the leading stories following Meghan and Harry’s wedding had to do with the flower girls and a dispute over whether or not they should wear tights. 

Then Meghan wore some tights that were the wrong shade of whatever and everyone lost their minds. The tights also supposedly alerted the world to the fact that Meghan had capitulated to the Royal way of things.

That’s a lot of talking for a pair of tights.

I’m telling you this because you need to understand just how petty the rules are that one has to follow when joining the Royal Family.

Even if they don’t care what you do, the British public, many of whom consider socks with sandals suitable for public wear, will scrutinise every detail of what someone does and doesn’t do because, according to them, “it’s tradition”.

So let us do what we came here to do and head on over to NewsAU for the latest “scandal” outlined in Lady Colin Campbell’s hotly anticipated and recently published Meghan and Harry: The Real Story.

Stepping out onto the vast, verdant expanse of lawn behind Buckingham Palace on a sparkling spring day, the spiffy new Duke and Duchess of Sussex embarked on their first official outing.

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The occasion was a garden party to make Prince Charles’ 70th birthday with some 6,000 representatives from charities associated with the royal stuffing themselves with fruit scones and finger sandwiches.

This was the same day that the incident with the tights happened, FYI.

Lady Colin writes that Harry and Meghan: “plunged in, gladhanding those who had been selected for introductions. She charmed everyone. Fifteen minutes into the event, she turned to Harry and said, ‘Harry, this is really boring. Let’s leave.’

To his credit, he informed her that they would have to stay. ‘But Harry,’ she said, ‘this is so boring. We’ve done our bit. Everyone knows we’ve been here. Let’s go.’ Harry asserted that they had to stay, and they moved on.”

Reflecting on the alleged incident, the scion then commented to Lady Colin: “She thinks life is a photo op.”

Or – and hear me out here – eating finger sandwiches with a group of ageing royals is boring.

Let’s keep in mind here Lady Colin’s pedigree. In 1992 she published Diana In Private: The Princess Nobody knows which was the first biography to air claims that the royal had bulimia and that she had an affair with James Hewitt. While her claims were rubbished at the time, those two points were later borne out to be true.

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In the decades since then, Lady Colin has made a name for herself as a reality TV contestant and starred in a documentary called Lady C and The Castle. Last year, Lady Colin (above) sparked outrage after going on TV to defend Prince Andrew and said that while she was not defending Jeffrey Epstein, “there’s a difference between a minor and a child.”

Well, that’s disturbing. I think we’ll be taking her anecdotes with a pinch of salt.

Taking this all into account, everyone is now wondering whether Harry ‘did his job’ in preparing Meghan for Royal life.

What this all boils down to, is people feeling that Meghan should really smile more.

Are we or aren’t we living in the 21st century? Reading this rubbish, it’s sometimes hard to tell.

[source:newsau]