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Mary McNamara: What 'The Crown' can teach us about Meghan Markle's tabloid war

Here's what I want to know: What does Olivia Colman think of Meghan Markle? Everyone else on the planet has certainly weighed in.

Last week, when British network ITV released a clip from "Harry & Meghan: An African Journey" in which Markle admitted, in terms as vague as "challenging" and "a lot," that life as a royal has been a bit more than she bargained for, they undoubtedly knew it would be international news. Everything the royal family does is news, especially the bits that expose how hard it is to be part of a family in which everything you do is news.

Especially when you are Meghan Markle, the first biracial, previously divorced American

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