The sight of Prince William kissing his cousin Princess Beatrice on the cheek at the wedding of Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling on Saturday has been downplayed by the traditional British media.
On social media, however, it is one of the main talking points from the nuptials. Rightly so, because it tells us an enormous amount about the shifting power dynamics within the Windsor family.
While rumors had been rife all week about who was and who wasn’t going to attend, it seemed clear by Friday evening that there was a determined effort by the royal family to do a classic “Keep Calm and Carry On” and brazen out the latest revelations from the National Audit Office, the U.K.’s independent public spending watchdog.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
