Amy Spindler: Royalty Is As Royalty Does

Here's a nice saucy bit in honor of Amy Spindler, the NYT mag style editor who died this morning. From her Slate diary on fashion week, 2000:

I keep getting invited to events by HRH Marie Chantal of Greece. Correct me if I'm wrong: Don't you have to have subjects to be an HRH? Even if HRH Marie Chantal of Greece took over a little tenement on, say, Norfolk Street and set up a little building of her subjects on the Lower East Side, I would succumb to her rule. But without willing subjects willing to curtsy, it seems a bit of a publicity stunt to run around sending out invitations to things as HRH.

Amy Spindler's Diary [Slate]
NYT editors' memo on Amy Spindler's death [Romanesko]