Namely, the Princess Royal seemed to be channelling the outfit she wore 33 years ago when she married Sir Timothy Laurence. It was a day of sensible pragmatism, in classic Princess Anne style, but ...

No? Us neither. We’re all familiar with fairytale tropes (helpless princess in castle, malevolent old warty woman, and a man – any man! – to the rescue). The problem is, they bear zero ...