It’s a beautiful image – beautiful enough, you’d hope, to pull the public up short in their ongoing crusade against the duchess. But while I’m crossing my fingers, I’m not holding my breath.
It would be ludicrous if it wasn’t so appalling. At the time of writing, there are more than 3,000 comments, largely in that tone. I wonder whether their authors would dream of posting something in the same spirit under another celebrity’s post with their child, or even a friend’s – and if the answer’s no, if it would occur to them to wonder why.
But while some such phobias are highly personal – and therefore, easy to spot – others tap into more universal fears and values, afflicting huge swathes of the population. The resulting behaviour is no less odd just because it’s common – still, ubiquity lends it a cloak of normalcy. A vessel for our most fetid subconscious biases – racism, misogyny, class anxiety – since she married into the British royal family in 2018, poor Markle is a perfect case in point.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as they leave St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle after their wedding in 2018 (Photo: PA)Of course, her only crimes were being female, mixed race, and American – but as the world’s reaction to her proved, those are more than enough to get millions frothing at the mouth, whether they know it or not.
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Positive or negative, the common ingredient in these fervours is delusion. No one thinks, I’m scared that everyone I love will die, but that’s too frightening to face so I’m sublimating it into support for this old man who’s raising money for hospitals. Or, I can’t admit that I resent women and people of colour, so I’m concentrating that into abstract hatred for this public figure who just so happens to represent both groups. What comes out instead is less honest but more socially acceptable, turbo-charged by the (barely) suppressed real emotions; see above, or practically any tabloid comments section.
So, what can be done? I’m afraid that, if we accept this behaviour has roots in the deepest parts of ourselves, it’s going to take more than a gentle talking-to to change things. On the other hand, perhaps it can be some comfort to those on its sharp end – like Markle – that, no matter how immensely personal such criticism might seem, it has almost nothing at all to do with them.
See? That wasn’t so hard.
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