When the Media Goes Silent

Royal “Scandals” and Media Complicity

It’s the kind of scandals the British tabloids live for. A King in love with a twice-married American woman. An alleged falling out between the future Queen and a Marchioness, affair rumors swirling around the future It’s the kind of scandals that generates months and months of headlines. Increases circulation. The kind of scandals that lines the pockets of advertisers and the top brass.

The kind of scandals that—inexplicably—never made a blip in the British Tabloids.

This new, multi-part series for paid subscribers only looks into the media coverage around the “Rural Rift” involving Kate Middleton, then-Duchess of Cambridge, Rose Hanbury, Marchioness of Cholmondeley, and Prince William in 2019 and King Edward VII and Wallis Simpson in 1936. In “When the Media Goes Silent: Royal “Scandals and Media Complicity,” we’ll look at when, “Never complain, never explain,” is thrown out the window. When the normally insatiable tabloid industry, that never lets a little thing like facts get in the way of a juicy story, went radio silent. And why.

All that and so much more coming soon. Sign up for the paid tier and don’t miss a minute of this thorn in the side of the British Monarchy.

-Meredith