Max Hastings, acclaimed British author and historian laments that millennial royals act like millennials. Though he seems to reserve extra scorn for Ms. Markle, whose public behavior seems more in line with that of an opportunistic American actress and less of a pedigreed British Royal, as if anyone expected anything different.
She’s of mixed race, too. Her mother is Jamaican.
True, though it's much more of a European thing than an American because that's where the royals and aristocrats are.
Max Hastings, acclaimed British author and historian laments that millennial royals act like millennials.
If history is any clue, acting like royals doesn't necessarily mean acting well.
Nor for that matter does acting like aristocrats, though there are always a few aristocrats who look down on the royals as too brash and boorish.
When countries get rid of monarchs, though, they can move one step closer to the rule of charismatic tyrants who appeal to the same popular enthusiasms as the royals.