The Rise of the Class-Conscious Cinderella

The rich are deformed by wealth and can only sustain themselves through the suffering of these heroines

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
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5 min readNov 25, 2020

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“The Crown.” Photo: Des Willie/Netflix

There’s a scene early in The Crown’s wildly popular fourth season, where Princess Diana meets her royal in-laws. She’s barely out of her teens and suffers from profound insecurity and anxiety; until she met Prince…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
Writer for

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.