Who’s to say that we can’t learn anything from Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and princess of Montecito? We were barely 15 minutes into the first episode of the second season of her Netflix series, With Love, Meghan , and I sat up straight to digest an arcane but true fact of which I’d been hitherto unaware.

During an exposition on flower arranging, one of Meghan’s guests explained that Samurai warriors were trained in calligraphy and flower arranging “to help with their focus and dexterity”.

Like me, Meghan was taken aback to discover this item of esoterica. She put on her best astonished expression, hands on head like an emoji made flesh. “Is this so wild that I do flower arranging and calligraphy?” she exclaimed, to no one in particular.

But one of her guests found the energy to res

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