We’re living in a world that insists you have to choose: Team Kate Middleton, or Team Meghan Markle. So what’s the greater symbolism of this supposed feud and culture war? According to the British press narrative, Kate Middleton is the respected, elegant, traditional Queen-in-waiting, who has taken to the Royal Family like a duck to water and understands the weight of tradition hoisted upon her. Meanwhile, Meghan Markle is the arch manipulator, the threat to the Royal Family, who’s led Prince Harry astray. So why has the atmosphere become so toxic? As well as the undeniable issue of race, the difference in their narratives stems from a difference in how much each reveres the institution they’ve married into. Here’s why the fiction of the Kate Middleton vs Meghan Markle feud boils down to a divide between those who play the game, and those who want to change it.