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Harry and Meghan’s departure isn’t the disaster you think it is – in fact, the monarchy has never been stronger

It doesn’t matter what position the Duke and Duchess of Sussex take in society, the occupancy of the throne is set in stone 

Matthew Norman
Sunday 12 January 2020 23:23 GMT
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Queen seen for first time since Harry and Meghan announcement

This is the last demographic a columnist should ever represent. The job of the columnist being forever to have or pretend to have strong opinions, it verges on career suicide.

But regarding the latest House of Windsor plot twist, I speak for the apathetically bemused who comprehend little about it, and couldn’t care less.

That’s virtually everyone under 40, and a decent proportion of the more elderly. To them (us), what a newspaper calls “the abdication crisis” is a mystery without intrigue.

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