The Duchess of Edinburgh will no longer curtsy to the Duchess of Sussex

Mail on Sunday headline today:

Sophie Wessex is 'relieved' her move up the royal ranks means she no longer has to curtsey to Meghan, friends say

HRH the Duchess of Edinburgh to you, Mail on Sunday. 

I wonder how often people curtsy to the Duchess of Sussex. (What an extraordinary sub-plot she is in the national story.) 

Surely Americans don't curtsy or bow even to the Sovereign, for ideological reasons.

Liz Truss's attempt at a curtsy when she kissed hands with the King was as disastrous as the rest of her eight week premiership. Let's not think of it (the curtsy or the premiership).

The royal family mocked Mrs. Thatcher's deep curtsies but Churchill's bows were deep.

This reminds me. When Clare Short went to kiss hands on becoming a cabinet minister, her mobile telephone rang and she rummaged through her large bag, spewing the contents on the floor, before finding the telephone. As she did so it rang off. The Queen, in what Matthew Parris called the greatest moment in her reign, said sweetly, "I do hope it wasn't anyone important."