In London …
A difficult position
“Highly salacious and unsubstantiated gossip about the British royal family” was there for all (or some, anyway) to see, briefly, in the Oz, the online “youth section” of Rupert Murdoch’s The Australian. “The article discussed in graphic detail the alleged sex life of a royal, based on a single ‘blind’ item of gossip from a notorious Instagram account that did not name the subject,” reported The Guardian. “It was followed up by a jokey TikTok video of the Queen ‘reacting’ to the sexual gossip, as News Corp Australia pushed the story to its social media accounts.”
Three hours later it was all pulled. (What was so salacious and so unsubstantiated? Sorry, this is a family newsletter, but googling “William,” “pegging,” and “open secret” should tell you what you need to know.) The episode inevitably rekindled 2019’s highly salacious and unsubstantiated rumors about an affair between Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge’s erstwhile best friend Rose Hanbury.
