Lady Evans hath looked down upon the American-born Duchess of Sussex in her latest book, The Palace Papers. Both look the worse for it. Lady Evans (aka Tina Brown) for the flogging, the Duchess (aka Meghan Markle) for seeking validation in Visibility's more godlike cousin, Ubiquity. Lady Sussex wants to be all things to everywhere, and the Maidenhead-born Lady Evans thinks that's cheap. (The best part of royal titles? Having one can absolve you of any or all responsibility.)
Below is the freeze-dried (and at times alliterative) equivalent of a page from Tom Wolfe:
"The buzzed-up Jessica Mulroney was Meghan’s thirty-something role model in style and new BFF. Meghan has always been astute in flattering fashionable and famous women and absorbing their networks. Physically, Jessica could have been Meghan’s sister and was just as tireless. She had turned her private life into a permanent destination wedding, posting a ceaseless flow of images about her glossy existence. As a fashion stylist cum marketer, Jessica marked everything in her world with a hashtag. Her own three-day nuptials were covered on Canadian television news, her parenting became a partnership with Pampers, and her trips to the gym a promotional opportunity for Adidas. It could not have escaped Meghan’s notice that a crucial factor in Jessica’s commercial leverage was her famous Mulroney husband. “The Brandtastic Life of Ben and Jessica” was the title of a Toronto Life magazine puff piece on the Mulroneys."
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