There is much talk about the British royal family but it is the same as all the others. The shoe-horning of people into unnatural positions and deifying them for centuries does not breed any normality. Being bowed to from your first days does not give you a sense of commonality. It isn’t designed to. But keeping the myth going depends upon artifice and lies.
No one will admit Diana’s sons are half-brothers, but they both know. And the palaces of the world are nationalist and racist – they have to be. Their purpose is to raise a one family above all others. But the worst part of the artifice is the servants and bureaucrats who surround the families. The inverted snobbery, the sense of self-importance and the determination to lie until the end that these families are imperfect but noble.