It always feels a bit like getting rubbish in someone else's house. Rummage through her private post, sneak through her front yard, and rip through the tilted window to pick up a few nasties of her live-fucked family room.
But you do not have to make this morally reprehensible effort, if you want to be informed as a slightly above-average interested in royal concerns about what's going on with Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.
Her father and her half-sister have been producing extremely willingly, unpleasantly in public since the time of Meghan's wedding to Prince Harry last May, and with a lately increased streak of gossip. The Marklean tribal distortions are thus perfect guilty pleasure for all, to whom the skirmishes of the Kardashians are simply too confusing because of the highly complex family structures.
In the case of the Markles, however, the number of persons involved is very manageable. Doria Ragland, mother of the Duchess, stays behind and out of everything. Unlike her ex-husband Thomas Markle, Meghan's father, and Samantha Markle, Meghan's half-sister. They shoot regularly on Twitter or in extremely unpleasant boulevard interviews against the Duchess.
Occasionally, guest stars mix in, such as George Clooney the other day. He admonished publically, US relatives, the press and Pöbler treated the pregnant Duchess in a similar ruthless and outrageous manner as was the case with Princess Diana at the time. Then Samantha Markle referred to him on Twitter as "Looney Clooney", ie as "Batty Clooney": "Your lawyer's wife should have actually taught you to make any statements without knowing the facts."
A typical example of this rift, whose mechanisms are as reliable as snapping dogs after wormhills, a completely concession-free game of action and reaction: when five of Meghan's close friends - as happened in early February - in a large US magazine "The Truth" about the Telling the duchess's relationship with the father and reporting on a letter in which Meghan Thomas Markle asked last summer to settle her differences privately - what happens then? A few days later, the father carries exactly this letter to another boulevard medium that relishes all five pages with relish, coupled with his desire for a meeting with Meghan and Harry, and more importantly, a joint photo.
Apparently (the palace is officially silent, as always) this meeting has not yet taken place, although half-sister Samantha urged the Duchess only a few days ago to visit her father in Florida - after all, she was in New York, anyway to celebrate a pre-birth baby shower with her American friends.
Romantic-foolish royalists sigh - but they are wrong
Whereupon Meghan's half-brother Thomas Markle junior then turned on, asking his spitting sister to finally stop her attacks on Meghan. That, in turn, was confusing because he had written an open letter to Prince Harry himself before the wedding, urging him to bargain and describing his half-sister as dull, superficial and arrogant, prophesying that she would ridicule the entire royal family ,
However, Thomas Markle junior's appeal to Samantha is unlikely to be outrageous as she is currently working on her two-volume revelation, "In The Shadows Of The Duchess", just in time for the birth of Meghan's baby, all smear stories from the common past should report.
Of course, since Prince Charles and Princess Diana, even the biggest kitsch friends can no longer believe that the highest nobility could effectively protect anyone from human mischief - be it meanness of one's partner or outside attacks. And of course, since Thomas Markle's odd maneuvers in the run-up to the wedding - the commitment, the refusal, the recent pledge, staged paparazzi quotations, and, finally, a heart attack - they knew that this family would presumably be good for some din.
When romantic-foolish royalists sigh, the British royal family and the monarchy have lost all fairytale splendor with the Markle mud battle, they are wrong: The story of Duchess Meghan and her dysfunctional family tells a highly modern fairytale, tailored to our time.
The family dispute makes the Royals more approachable, their lives more sensitive
It was acclaimed last year that Prince Harry gave the dusty system a new, modern face by marrying an older, divorced, American actress with a dark-skinned mother - and modern means also: not glossy smooth, but so zerdellt and ailing, like It is also the time in which we live.
Apart from that, princesses (and other royal staff) have traditionally never had it easy in fairy tales. If Cinderella were pissed off by her wicked stepsisters these days, they would not let them sort lenses, but troll with nasty tweets. As the evil queen of "Snow White" of course no longer look in a mirror, but would pump their selfies with pore-melting smooth-iron filters to assure their rotting beauty.
As unappetizing and undignified as the public family attachments may be, they make this new generation of Royals even more approachable, their lives even more palpable than Duchess Kate ever could.
Anger with a hunchback relationship is well-known as a commoner and commoner. It is painful for Meghan - and comforting for us - that these human failings do not just disappear just because you happen to be living in a palace.