As Harry and Meghan are finding out, the royals don’t do ‘progressive’ | Simon Jenkins

If the Sussexes thought they could create a new kind of royalty, the circling of the Windsor wagons should put them right

No, the monarchy is not in crisis. No, the princes are not bullies. No, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will not be destitute, merely stinking rich. No, they will not go unprotected. In a nutshell, the past few days’ events, inconceivable in any other democracy, really do not matter.

Pull the other one. The nation is on tenterhooks, or at least its mass media is. The royal...