As well as Charles and Camilla\u00a0on location\u00a0for the Commonwealth Games and an oddly restricted ramble through North Queensland and the Northern Territory\u00a0plus a side trip to Vanuatu that featured a very large number of\u00a0Indigenous people in both countries\u00a0inexplicably\u00a0enthused by the\u00a0royal presence, suddenly Prince Edward has appeared\u00a0justifying a sojourn as\u00a0an Empire\u00a0Games spectator (beach volleyball?)\u00a0with\u00a0an\u00a0astonishingly low key visit to\u00a0four\u00a0States. This included a large number of games\u00a0of\u00a0real (royal) tennis and some\u00a0obvious make-work visits in Tasmania including the one\u00a0at\u00a0the Botanic Gardens to\u00a0open a\u00a0boardwalk. One\u00a0tennis game took\u00a0place in Ballarat!\u00a0 These appearances\u00a0will be\u00a0quickly followed by\u00a0another royal heir baby\u00a0and then the\u00a0glamorous wedding, even if it also will be low key but heavily televised, in mid May.\u00a0The Harry-Meghan link-up will be on a far lesser scale than that for the second heir to the throne in 2011, orders of precedence and place in the pecking order being rigorously observed by the Windsors with just enough excellent PR to cover the gaps. We couldn’t help noticing that both\u00a0Clarence House and the Palace are having trouble with Meghan’s honorific.\u00a0When it’s used, it’s always Ms. – with a full stop – and this only draws attention to it, the rest of the western world having adopted Ms unadorned\u00a0years ago.\u00a0 Kate,\u00a0of course,\u00a0was a Miss Catherine Middleton so not much feminism to\u00a0see\u00a0there but Meghan isn’t a Miss at all, rather\u00a0a divorced American actress and a woman who works,\u00a0so Ms full-stop will have to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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