Theresa May’s curtsey? We don’t need this deference to royals | Gaby Hinsliff

If Prince William wants to be ‘modern’ he should put a stop to it. Why must elected power bend the knee to inherited privilege?

Curtseying is weird.

It’s so innately weird that there is probably no relaxed and normal way of doing it, although admittedly Theresa May manages to make unusually hard work of it. Greeting Prince William as they both marked the centenary of the battle of Amiens this week, she executed yet another of those grovellingly low dips that always make one think she is either about to fall over, or might have caught a heel in a grating. There have been unkind comparisons with Gollum from Lord of the Rings.

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