Let’s just be up front: we are by no means royal obsessives or enthusiasts. But we do live online, and the online chatter about Prince Harry and his buzzy new memoir “Spare,” which sold 1.5 million copies on its first day of publication, has been *loud.* The more we thought about it, the more it seemed like the Windsor family’s cultural resonance was worth discussing.
Like so many middle/elder millennials, any feelings of connection we do have to the Royal Family, originate with Princess Diana: the people’s princess, the woman who spent time in New York City’s AIDS wards, the mother of princes William and Harry, the tragic figure who died in a car crash in 1997 at the age of 36. (And for those of us who were children in 1997, a coveted purple bear Beanie Baby.)
After Diana’s death, her teenage sons became international media spectacles, becoming the targets of the same paparazzi who hounded their mother.
Even from across the pond, we knew tha…
