Welcome to your latest edition of The London Standard. This week, we explore the complex issue of how Meghan Markle became so staggeringly divisive. Tanya Gold asks what she has done to deserve this treatment, in a piece that’s clever, funny and remarkably astute about a fairy tale gone wrong (my favourite line? “American Riviera Orchard — a satnav destination for a fantasist”).
I’m very proud of our new Standard podcast, which launches this week, about a young London socialite, his brutal killing by a Swiss aristocrat and his mother’s mission to bring his killer to justice. Read Katie Strick’s powerful piece here, and download the six-part true-crime series on Wondery+.
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We’re lucky enough to be in a golden age of female music artists. On page 30, India Block meets the latest addition, Nigerian singer-songwriter Ayra Starr. She talks touring with Coldplay, mixing her faith with fame and how Rihanna is her biggest fan.
Elsewhere, don’t miss Marlon James’s Jamaica, superstar make-up artist Dame Pat McGrath’s beauty secrets and Primrose Hill queen Sadie Frost’s My London. I hope you enjoy the issue.
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