Plummy TV royals expert is Italian-American from New York

Thomas Mace-Archer-Mills, born Tommy Muscatello, says he identifies as a Brit

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A “British” royal family expert who appeared on TV sharing tips to help Meghan Markle blend into her life as a royal has been “outed” as an Italian-American from New York.

With his tweed suit, treble-barrelled name and cut-glass vowels, Thomas Mace-Archer-Mills’s appeal to foreign news networks covering the royal wedding was understandable.

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