OK.  Let’s get the pedantry out of the way first.  Per Merriam-Webster (emphasis added here and there just for clarity):

dilemma: noun: di·​lem·​ma də-ˈle-mə 
1 a: a usually undesirable or unpleasant choice–faces this dilemma: raise interest rates and slow the economy or lower them and risk serious inflation
1 b: a situation involving such a choice–here am I brought to a very pretty dilemma; I must commit murder or commit matrimony George Farquhar

broadly : PREDICAMENT
lords and bailiffs were in a terrible dilemma G. M. Trevelyan
2 a: a problem involving a difficult choice–the dilemma of “liberty versus order” J. M. Burns
2 b: a difficult or persistent problem–unemployment … the great central dilemma of our advancing technology August Heckscher

3: an argument presenting two or more equally conclusive alternatives against an opponent

The title of Murray’s December 9 Telegraph article is  America’s race-obsessed elites have declared war on British institutions.

He’s exactly right about this.  Meghan Markle, and her tool, the rather dim-witted Prince Harry, have decided to frame whatever grievances they have with the British royal family in terms of the often-regrettable history of racial relations on this (the US) side of the Atlantic.  Probably (IMHO) because it’s so much easier to do so (and–for Pete’s sake–just follow the money!).  Secondarily, I expect, the strategy has something to do with the fact that she’s clearly wearing the relationship’s pants.

I expect, for most of you, that Murray’s Telegraph article is behind the paywall.  So, herewith, some excerpts:

What does America have against the Royal family? Strangely enough, given the history, in the main the answer is “almost nothing”. I was in the States when Queen Elizabeth II died and was struck by the surge of public sentiment there…When the news of her death broke, American audiences demanded wall-to-wall coverage of events from the UK.

Yet…in the case of the New York Times, having only waited a couple of hours, they soon began to push the news into the same remorseless groove of identity politics into which everything else in America is now played.

Local writers were drafted in to attack the Empire and Commonwealth (which will sound awfully familiar to Netflix subscribers).

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Now these elite anti-British bigots are going to have new material, provided to them by one of their own – the woman born Meghan Markle. As the Duke and Duchess of Sussex bask in the attention surrounding their “tell-all” Netflix show, we can already see the groove that they have been pushed into. It is a peculiarly American groove and one that bears no relationship with either Britain or the truth.

It was the British novelist Zadie Smith who once observed that race in America is what class is in Britain – the discussion beneath every discussion…As the summer of George Floyd in 2020 proved, America is only ever one bad police interaction away from major riots and cities burning down. It is a country on a perpetual knife-edge over any issue to do with race.

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Whatever the cause, it is beyond question that America looks at everything through the lens of race. So it was probably inevitable that the Sussexes, now living in America, would use race as the main lens through which too view the British public and monarchy.

Of course, nothing could be more inadequate as a tool…many British people had to be told that [Meghan] was a person of colour… As the crowds that turned out for the 2018 royal wedding in Windsor showed, the British people were thrilled by the union of the Sussexes. IWhat better way to head into the 21st century [than with a multi-ethnic British royal family]?

But then Harry and Meghan chose their own way, for reasons they will doubtless now try to justify at inordinate length…the Sussexes seem to have been surprised by aspects of the Royal family. It seems to have come as a shock to the couple that there is a “hierarchy” in the monarchy – a fact that you might have thought was obvious.

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Both of them have retreated into the only explanation that Meghan could possibly have; the explanation for everything in America: “racism”.

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The truth is less exciting, far less scandalous, and without doubt something that the Sussexes will never want to hear: the British public only turned against the couple because the couple turned against the British public and one of our great institutions. When the Sussexes chose to keep their titles but spend their time chasing celebrity in California, they rejected the idea of public service to which every other royal is committed. Even worse was that the couple should have made the final months of the Duke of Edinburgh and the late Queen that much more unhappy by appearing as wrecking balls against the institution that had so carefully nurtured Prince Harry and welcomed his wife.

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The great secret of all institutions is that people are loyal to institutions that are loyal to them.

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The Sussexes could have been something great – a jewel in the British crown – but they wrecked themselves. If they want an explanation as to why they have become what they have, and ended up where they have, it lies in their own selfish actions.

Those of you who soothe yourselves by framing this particular soap opera as something peculiar to we fusty old Brits and our monarchical tradition, and who can’t quite manage to recognize it as the same-old, same-old attack on Western Civilization and our common values, have at it. You may think you’re striking a blow for republicanism.  But really, you’re (totally, boringly, repetitively, explicably) just missing the point.