The outrage was instant. When the return of Harry and Meghan to Britain was announced on August 19th, royal commentators had collective conniptions.(当哈里和梅根返回英国的消息在8月19日宣布时，王室评论员们集体抓狂。) The Sussexes’ return a week later (widely assumed to be caused by the cost of security abroad) has been called “selfish”, “foolish” and “childish”—all sorts of -ishes(各种以-ish结尾的词). Front pages have been filled, hands have been wrung(绞（手），拧). Everyone has, in short(简而言之), been enjoying themselves tremendously. And the monarchy has been doing its job perfectly.
愤怒瞬间爆发。8月19日哈里和梅根返回英国的消息宣布时，王室评论员们集体抓狂。这对苏塞克斯夫妇一周后的回归（普遍认为是因海外安保费用所致）被称作“自私”“愚蠢”“幼稚”——各种“-ish”后缀的词。头版被占满，人们绞着双手。总之，每个人都乐在其中。而君主制也完美地履行了它的职责。
Most people misunderstand(误解) the monarchy. There is a widely held idea that it is a branch of government and should, as Walter Bagehot, a Victorian writer (and editor of The Economist), put it, be “DIGNIFIED”.(一种普遍观点认为君主制是政府分支，应像白芝浩所说那样“庄严”。) Bunkum(胡说八道). No British monarch has truly governed anything since the 1689 Bill of Rights(1689年《权利法案》) removed all real powers from the king and his “evil counsellors(邪恶顾问)”. Since then the monarchy has become—as Hilary Mantel understood better—a branch of entertainment, not government. Royals, Mantel wrote, are like pandas in a zoo: some like them, some pity them, “everybody stares at them”.
大多数人对君主制有误解。一种普遍观点认为君主制是政府的一个分支，应该像维多利亚时代的作家（也是《经济学人》编辑）沃尔特·白芝浩所说的那样“庄严”。胡说八道。自1689年《权利法案》剥夺了国王及其“邪恶顾问”的所有实权以来，英国君主从未真正统治过任何事物。此后，君主制——正如希拉里·曼特尔更深刻理解的那样——已成为娱乐的一个分支，而非政府。曼特尔写道，王室成员就像动物园里的熊猫：有人喜欢，有人怜悯，“人人都盯着他们看”。
Meghan Markle, an actress who began in daytime TV(日间电视节目), knows this well. The website IMDB lists “Deal or No Deal” (2005) as an early hit paying her “$800 per episode”. Next came a breakthrough(突破) part in a schlocky(粗制滥造的) American mini-series, “Suits” (2012), “$50,000 per episode”; then the even bigger role of, as the website royal.uk notes, “The Duchess of Sussex, Countess of Dumbarton and Baroness Kilkeel” (2018- present), salary undisclosed(薪酬未公开).
梅根·马克尔，一位从日间电视起步的女演员，深知这一点。IMDB网站将《一掷千金》（2005）列为她早期的热门作品，每集片酬“800美元”。接下来她在美国一部粗制滥造的迷你剧《金装律师》（2012）中取得突破，每集“5万美元”；然后是一个更大的角色，正如royal.uk网站所指出的，“苏塞克斯公爵夫人、邓巴顿伯爵夫人和基尔基尔男爵夫人”（2018年至今），薪酬未公开。