Pour a slug of gin and clasp your pearls, people. The latest inevitable trope in the royal reality show is upon us. With Kate-versus-Meghan stories fading because of their separate lives, it’s time for the inevitable reports of a “tense relationship” between the Princess of Wales and her mother-in-law.

Queen Camilla is so thrilled with her responsibilities as head girl, according to global buzz, that she’s “hesitant to pass on her duties to Kate”. She’s reportedly “always wanted to be queen” and wants to make it last.

Rumours have emerged of growing tensions between the Queen and the Princess of Wales.Credit: Chris J Ratcliffe

This narrative makes me want to stab myself in the face. Confected rubbish. I’m only surprised it took this long. The world loves women pitted against each other, in the pursuit of power, fame or playground bragging rights. And the wicked mother-in-law is a perennial classic archetype.

Not that I’m discounting the idea of some tension among the Windsor women. Kate and Camilla are not just mother and daughter-in-law, albeit step. They’re also co-workers, their roles intertwined under a........

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