Duke and Duchess of Sussex Refuse to Engage With British Tabloids

LONDON — There is nothing that gets a journalist’s blood boiling like a subject’s refusal to engage, respond – or at least politely decline – a request for comment: Which means that royal watchers should brace for even more aggressive reporting on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex by the British tabloids The Daily Mail, Mirror, The Sun and Express. On Sunday, night the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who are now living in self-imposed exile in California, have fired off yet another angry missive to the media outlets that annoy them, saying they will refuse to engage with them going forward. Never mind that the British tabloids’ attention has turned — at least for the moment — to the coronavirus, one of the greatest worldwide crises since World War Two, a pandemic that has already killed more than 165,000 — about 10 percent of them in the U.K. — with more than 2 million confirmed infections, and counting. Far from tracking every cough and burp of the Sussexes and their infant son Archie, those tabloids have been calling out the commitment of frontline health workers in the U.K.; the threat of a severe economic slowdown, and the potential for millions of job

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