Protecting Meghan Markle: Why the Royal Family Had to Make Such a Drastic Move
Perhaps the previous generations did have it easier.
Princess Diana, Princess Margaret, even Wallis Simpson...
maybe, no matter how exhausting public life became and no matter how much the press picked them over, they were lucky to have avoided the Twitter era.
Of course, they all suffered mightily at the hands of regular paper-and-ink news outlets and good old-fashioned photographers, so to compare their experiences too favorably is a fallacy. But as most people, royal and civilian, know by now, social media has made it possible for the least civil discourse imaginable to take place 24 hours a day, every day.
So while it's imperative that the young royals maintain a (strictly...
