Hanging thick in the London air today isn’t the city’s notorious fog, but the supposed tension between two royal (one ex-royal?) women. Tabloid reporters are risking carpal tunnel syndrome at the rate they are fiercely wringing drama out of any interaction (or lack thereof) between Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle. The latest incidence is Kate idly staring into the middle distance, as Meghan dares to stand in said middle distance—which some have interpreted as Kate slinging an “icy glare” at her sister-in-law.
Icy-glare-gate is just the most recent non-scandal in a long history of a much overhyped, if not entirely fabricated, cold war between the two women. The tabloids don’t miss any opportunity to dump smoke where there might not even be fire.
Let’s play a little game in which you try to spot the difference between the real headlines from this week and the ones I’ve generated in my head this morning:
