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The Wimbledon Championships are into their fourth day and have provided nothing but drama.

On Wednesday, July 5, the games were interrupted after Just Stop Oil activists managed to disrupt two matches.

The contest between Grigor Dimitrov and Sho Shimabukuro came to a standstill when two protestors stormed the All England Club court and threw orange confetti and jigsaw pieces onto the ground.

A third protestor then targeted Katie Boulter’s match against Daria Saville.

Wimbledon has for years been a grand spectacle not only for that which happens on the court but also off the court and even in the spectator stands — as a few years ago proved when Meghan Markle’s security was confronted by a bemused tennis fan.

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In 2019, the Duchess of Sussex went to support her friend Serena Williams in her second-round match against Kaja Juvan.

After the match, a fan who was sat in the same row as Meghan, shared her experience of exchanging a war of words with her security member.

Media consultant and journalist Sally Jones hit out at the Duchess’ “control freak” security after they told her to stop taking pictures of the royal because she was attending Wimbledon in a “private capacity”.

Ms Jones said she had been unaware that the Duchess was there and was, in fact, trying to snap Williams on court.

In a column for The Daily Telegraph about her experience, she wrote: “This puzzlingly random control freakery is in direct contravention of royal practice. Most of the Queen’s extended family appearing in public, whether in a public or private capacity, are generally neither surprised nor affronted to be surveyed or photographed by a predominantly sympathetic public, delighted at a chance encounter with even lesser royal lights.”

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She continued: “As a journalist, I have covered scores of ‘royal rotas’ over the years, from the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana and Prince Edward’s first appearance as a Cambridge undergraduate on an archaeological dig at the Roman city of Wroxeter to his own wedding at Windsor Castle.

“I have often witnessed the sheer joy created among ordinary citizens by proximity to royalty.”

It all started, Ms Jones said, when she had a tap on the shoulder.

A royal protection officer clad in a “suspiciously bulgy blazer and highly-polished shoes” told her to stop taking photographs of Meghan — orders she described as “bonkers” given that most people were taking photographs in the crowd, including of Meghan.

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She said: “I think this royal protection officer was quite embarrassed.

“He appeared a bit mystified as to why he was being asked to make such a request.

“I told him it was bonkers and that even if I had been trying to snap the Duchess I’d have got a blurry picture of her right ear.

“Apart from anything else, there were hundreds of people clicking away.

“I said to him; have you thought about having a word with any of those television cameras? He looked a little uncomfortable.”

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