The chattering classes have a new obsession. Taylor Swift. A British royal.
And a rumoured wedding. It is the kind of story that sends tabloid editors into a frenzy and Special Branch into a cold sweat. The whispers started in the Lobby last week and have since gone viral.
The Palace, characteristically, is saying nothing. But my sources tell me that security planning has been quietly stepped up. The worry is not just about the celebrity circus.
It is about the threat level. A royal wedding involving a global pop icon would be a target for everything from obsessed fans to state-backed disruption. The Met’s Royalty Protection Command has been in touch with Swift’s US security team.
Preliminary assessments are being made. But don’t expect any official confirmation. Not from the Palace.
Not from Downing Street. This is a story that lives and dies on ‘well-placed sources’ and ‘friends of the couple’. So far, the only certain thing is the silence.
And in Westminster, silence is the loudest noise of all.
