Thank God for the proprieties. This magazine’s editor, Fraser Nelson, rattled a few score Anglicans today when he declared in his Radio 4 newspaper roundup at Broadcasting House (pleasingly paired with the FT’s Lionel Barber, BTW) that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were to share a bedroom when they stay with the Queen at Sandringham over Christmas. This was on the back of a piece by Rachel Johnson, sister of, in the Mail on Sunday, deploring the fact that Meghan was to glad hand the crowds after the Christmas service, even though she’s only engaged.
It was the bedroom-sharing arrangement bit that scandalised me. If the Queen, whose other job is supreme governor of the CofE, is turning a blind eye to premarital sex on the premises, then the world as we know it has come to an end. Obviously HM nurses few delusions about her grandson’s sex life; in fact she’d be hard pressed to find any member of the family who shares her own record of containing her sex life within marriage.
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