Absolutely this! It’s all about the bottom line!
I think Royal commentary as a job seems to attract the most hideous types of people unfortunately, because so many of them are blatantly mercenary.
Have you ever known a more gruesome type of individual than your average royal correspondent or commentator? Nicolas Witchell, Richard Eden, the ludicrous Mark Dolan, and the boorish Matt Wilkinson, to name just a few.
From the out and out sycophants like Gyles Brandreth to the opportunists such as Laurence Llewelyn Bowen, they are all so grim!
Dan Wootten is utterly ghastly obviously but at least he is overtly awful! There are so many so-called semi-respectable journalists and journalists who spend their lives wanging on about H & M because it’s an easy source of income. It’s so cynical and as you say Op, H&M are an easy hit.
Many call themselves journalists but have to bow and scrape in order to be trusted with palace access! And one or two have admitted on air that palace staff were cross with them when they stepped slightly out of line. That is really not reporting in any true sense of the word if you are simply an empty vessel through which BP spread their PR.
Every Tom, Dick and Harry historian who wants to up their book sales writes about the RF (Andrew Lownie excepted because I think he is genuinely interested in truth telling and investigating cover ups and holding the institution accountable.) And H&M specifically seem to be particularly lucrative subjects to write about!
I was surprised to see that even the Rev Richard Coles is one of the hosts of a podcast about the Royals and is commenting on William and Harry, when I thought he was a friend of Charles Spencer?
It seems no one is immune to the lure of filthy lucre and there appears to be in-fighting between them all too, as a story about Richard Eden outlined in Private Eye recently.
How half of them look at themselves in the mirror in the morning, I do not know! Perhaps it’s the sight of their spanking new kitchen extensions in the background that makes the experience more tolerable!