This may be one of those years Britain’s royal family will not want to dwell on. Few of the Windsor clan would have anticipated the challenges they’d have to face in the infancy of King Charles III’s reign. It was perhaps best summed up by his heir apparent, Prince William, who candidly categorized 2024 as “brutal” and probably “the hardest year in my life.” For Russell Myers, the royal editor of Britain’s The Mirror newspaper, the past 12 months have been astonishing. “It’s been a simply unprecedented time for both the individuals who have had separate health ailments, but also, in a wider sense, (a) really testing time for other members of the family.” Myers recalled the hurricane of unfounded, and at times ludicrous, conspiracy theories that swirled around Catherine earlier this year. “In all my years in the job, I’ve never known a period of hysteria like it and…
