How Meghan disrupted ‘invisible contract’ between royals and press

Observers say relationship survives on basis of unwritten rules that are now being reexamined

In an interview stuffed with quotable lines, it was among the most resonant: the invisible contract", as the Duke of Sussex called it, that has bound the royal family and reporters together for years.

In this telling, it is not that the royals enjoy their media duties, or view them as a responsibility, but that the only way to survive the press is to strike a deal with it.