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Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson, the ex-wife of Prince Andrew, weighed in last month on what she called the \"sewer\" of social media, comparing the online bullying to what the media did with her and Princess Diana.

\"Women, in particular, are constantly pitted against and compared with each other in a way that reminds me of how people tried to portray Diana and me all the time as rivals, which is something neither of us ever really felt,\" she wrote in a candid letter published in Hello!.

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The royal family's new guidelines say that social media comments must not \"contain spam, be defamatory of any person, deceive others, be obscene, offensive, threatening, abusive, hateful, inflammatory or promote sexually explicit material or violence.\"

The palaces -- which have millions of followers across multiple social media accounts -- reserve the right to \"determine, at our discretion, whether contributions to our social media channels breach our guidelines,\" according to the statement.

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