Why the UK Really Hates Meghan and Harry

Wherein I Spill Some Tea...

I will never forget the first time I heard the word “omerta,” (pronounced Omert-AH if you are from Italy). Bill Strickland, who worked for me as the editor of Bicycling Magazine, explained it as the reason why the bicycling racing community was so closed mouthed about what everyone inside the community knew – for example the fact that Lance Armstrong was a horrible human. While the outside world celebrated Lance’s feats of sporty success, everyone inside the community knew what was really going on and it wasn’t good, fair, or legal. Omerta is the Sicilian Mafia code of silence that demands complete loyalty to the “cause” – no matter how nefarious that cause is. And according to the code of honor, “betrayal comes at a price.”