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It’s not just Meghan and Harry. I’d like us all to escape this dire royal circus | Suzanne Moore

The Duchess of Sussex is compared to Yoko Ono and subjected to big-bucks bigotry. She and her husband should be allowed to go – then we can rethink what monarchy means
Let them go … The Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

There is a meme doing the rounds in which Prince Harry, instead of cuddling up to Meghan, is embracing Yoko Ono. You may find this hilarious. Yoko broke up the Beatles; Meghan is now ripping apart the royals. I find it racist, sexist, untrue and a sign of how little we understand our own prejudices, and those of our rulers. Yoko is a brilliant artist in her own right. She was also, if you byJohn Lennon’s biographer Albert Goldman. She faced an enormous amount of racism.

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