YP Letters: Trolls who pester Royal pair need to get a life

The Duchess of Cambridhe (left) and the Duchess of Sussex at Wimbledon last year.

MY first reaction to your report that there was rivalry between “fans” of the Duchesses of Cambridge and Sussex  was that some people really  need to get a life (“War of words at Palace as ‘fans’ talk up a storm”, The Yorkshire Post, January 29).

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I mean, it’s not as if they were football teams, is it?

On reading further, however, it transpires that some of the social media messages have been abusive to the point of being threatening.

Unlike their detractors,  the two young women in question do not have the  luxury of anonymity, even if  they were inclined to join in  with these feeble-minded  sorties.

They have weighed the inconvenience against the privilege of buying into the life they have chosen, and are conducting themselves with charm and dignity.

It has long been a vain  hope that the shocking  license afforded the social  media might be reined in but, at the very least, as your accompanying Editorial asserts, offenders should be named and shamed.