Being a royal cannot be easy. Of course, there are the palaces and butlers and chauffeur-driven cars. But amid all the curtsies and ribbon-cutting, they are under the kind of pressure that few of us could endure. As well as all the formal duties, they carry the emotional weight of a nation. Whether a royalist or not, we cannot help but be psychologically invested in them. We project so much on to them and look to them as archetypes of our own family and our own relationships. They are potent symbols and come to represent our hopes and fears. Just look at how we have been obsessed with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s tenth wedding anniversary. I’ve been amazed at how, at work, even staunch anti-royalists have been talking about it.