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The Spectator's Notes

The royals who do best are those who restrain their personalities

19 May 2018

9:00 AM

19 May 2018

9:00 AM

The last time we had a royal wedding of comparable dynastic importance (i.e. only a bit important), Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson, in 1986. The Spectator of those times, which I was editing, carried almost nothing about it. The only piece was a television review by Alexander Chancellor, complaining that ‘The royal family are at the moment completely out of control.’

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