ghastly

 1992, for the British Royal Family, was kind of book-ended by not one, and not two, but three marriages that were shown to be disintegrating:  

Charles and Diana;

Andrew and Sarah;

and Princess Anne and her husband Mark Phillips.

And none of these people are "supposed to" get divorced.  Ever.  It's the old standard that's meant to be held to.

        A commentator in one of the documentaries on You Tube, Ian Hislop, tells us, "The Windsor Dynasty is to be thought terrifically dull.  The point is, you're not meant to envy their lifestyle, you're  meant to think, 'Oh, Scotland, cold, dogs, horses,  waving.'  And - unfortunately - they started getting interesting."

        When Sarah Ferguson got married to Prince Andrew in the '80s - "Initially, everyone said 'isn't she a marvelous breath of fresh air - oh, this is what the royals need, you know, new blood.'  And then new blood comes along and people go, 'Oh God, she's ghastly!'"

Meghan Markle, 31 years later:  same drill.

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