We absolutely must have historians to remind us at all times when stories about the royal family aren’t accurate

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In fact, he’s best mates with a paedophile.” If there was time, maybe an expert on royal protocol, such as David Starkey, could have instructed that: “His full title includes the phrase ‘Most Noble Order of the Garter’, but if that’s true, you have to wonder what on earth have the other orders of the garter done, to be less noble than this scurrilous dingbat." “And now we’re going to see some film shot in a school where a bunch of six-year-olds, who have no idea who Harry or Meghan are, were made to each make a cake covered in sparkly glitter to show us how much they love them, and if their mummy couldn’t afford the ingredients, the children were told, ‘Well, get them from a food bank then, or tell mummy to go on the game for a few days. Good Morning Britain will be filming this, you insolent traitor.’” So there should have been someone well informed to tell us: “Please don’t accept all that you see as true. I want to do my Lorraine Kelly, ‘Oh my God it’s been SUCH a year, hasn’t it, ooo but weren’t the nurses lovely, ooo they were such sweethearts.’ Thank you, and now – Miss Jennifer Lopez.” But if this ISN’T true, we should always have a historian correcting these claims, telling us: “No, Her Majesty ISN’T a mimic.