One imagines the Duchess of Sussex hoped this week—in which she launched her new Netflix show and her husband appeared on Colbert—would be ending on a more positive note than an unseemly squabble triggered by her half-brother’s claim that their father has had part of his leg amputated.
Yet that was the bizarre direction the conversation about Thomas Markle’s hospitalization took on Friday night, as royal correspondents tried to navigate a welter of contradictory briefings by Meghan’s spokespeople.