Into that breach stepped Meghan and Harry, and their tell-all interview with Oprah.
Right on cue, the Left exploded at Meghan’s revelation about royal concerns over the darkness of Archie’s skin colour.
Occurring as the trial for George Floyd’s killer got under way, the moment again thrust issues of race and equality into the forefront.
As a supporter of Hillary Clinton the Duchess of Sussex was already a hero to the American political left.
Now, like Princess Diana before her, she is viewed as a sympathetic victim of the backward and out-of-touch royals, silenced and cast aside for her outsider status and race.
She continued: When I joined that family, that was the last time until we came here that I saw my passport, my driver s licence, my keys, all that gets turned over. I went to the institution and I said that I needed to go somewhere to get help, said I had never felt that way before and need to go somewhere, and I was told that I couldn t, that it wouldn t be good for the institution. She said she went to one of the most senior people within the Royal Family and then to the palace human resources department. Nothing was ever done, she added.