The Mail on Sunday, published the next day, featured a front-page interview with Ms. Markle’s uncle, who was also disgruntled about not being invited.
This sort of treatment is an old tradition. When Kate Middleton was dating Prince William, tabloids quoted unnamed aristocrats mocking the bride’s mother, Carole, a former flight attendant, as a grasping member of the middle class, and said some of Prince William’s friends had whispered “doors to manual” when Mrs. Middleton entered the room. A “royal insider,” quoted in The Mirror, described Mrs. Middleton as “incredibly middle-class. She uses words such as ‘pleased to meet you,’ ‘toilet’ and ‘pardon.’”
Prince Harry, clearly anxious about how this would affect Ms. Markle, made an unusual gesture late in 2016. Their relationship had just become public, inspiring headlines like “Harry’s Girl Is (Almost) Straight Outta Compton” (The Daily Mail) and “Harry’s Girl on Porn Hub” (The Sun, which later published an apology).
Departing from palace tradition, the prince released an angry letter detailing “a wave of abuse and harassment” by members of the press, as well as the “racial undertones of comment pieces” and “outright sexism and racism of social media trolls and web article comments.” Mr. Abell, who served briefly as managing editor of The Sun, said the palace had identified, correctly, that the leverage of the print press was waning.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/world/europe/uk-royal-wedding-tabloids.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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