Joyce Fegan: Washing the royal laundry in full view of the public

For the majority of us, we get to keep our houses and affairs private, but for the royals, they walk the line of grieving in public with all their dirty laundry on display

Harry and Meghan joined William and Kate to meet mourners at Windsor last Saturday. The move marked the first time the two couples had been publicly seen together since March 2020

Beneath the medals and behind the pageantry, are people.
The strained faces of semi-civil siblings, a grown man grappling with grief on the one hand, and a sudden ascent to the throne on the other, and the relational dynamics between in-laws and generations — a family on full display for the whole world to see, and scrutinise.

After the death of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II was announced last week, and the former Prince of Wales was promptly named her successor now to be known as King Charles III, almost all stories turned to the "who" and the "where".