Yeti legend busted as international relations get stranger than fiction

On a week in which May and Trump tussled and a royal got engaged, some troubling memories of drug use resurfacedI seemed to find myself out of step with almost the entire nation when Prince Harry announced his engagement to Meghan Markle. While half the country was overwhelmed with happiness and the other half was in a republican funk at so much attention being given to the royal family, I merely found myself in a state of bemused indifference. I was passingly pleased that two people I didn’t know loved each other, but I couldn’t work up any strong feelings one way or the other as I have little invested in them. My interest was more piqued by a YouGov poll that reported differences in attitudes towards the royal wedding based on how people voted in the EU referendum. It turns out far more remainers believe it is acceptable for a member of the royal family to marry someone who is not British, who is much older than them and is of a different ethnicity than those who voted Brexit. The poll didn’t mention divorce, but I’d bet Brexiters wouldn’t be too keen on that either. So I’m guessing there must be quite a few royalists with mixed feelings. Continue reading…
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