Culture News

Harry and Meghan: ‘Validated’

MONTECITO / LONDON, FEBRUARY 2026 — Somewhere in California, reportedly, a couple who spent years being cast as the monarchy’s greatest villains — the ungrateful, camera-hungry deserters who abandoned their posts for Netflix deals and wellness podcasts — are said to be experiencing a quiet, dignified, thoroughly savoured moment of vindication. Sources close to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle say the couple are “gloating.” One imagines this is the kind of gloating that…

Current Absurdities

What Andrew’s Arrest Means for the Monarchy

LONDON, UK / FEBRUARY 2026 — In a sequence of events that has historians questioning whether the monarchy is now a courtroom comedy rather than a dynasty, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor — formerly “Prince Andrew” before his titles were ceremonially jettisoned like last season’s fashion — was arrested on his 66th birthday. Police arrived at his estate at 8am. He had presumably not yet opened his cards. Given what followed, this was perhaps for the best.…