I was excommunicated by my mother for a decade, says Hannah Betts , and we were only reconciled shortly before she died. With the Duchess of Sussex’s estranged father gravely ill in intensive care, it would be the dutiful thing to be at his bedside – but the choice must be hers, and the rest of the world should butt out T he irony couldn’t be more Meghan Markle if she’d gift-wrapped it, sprigged it with holly, and tied it with a bow. Just as the Duchess of Sussex unveils her Christmas Netflix