Lewis Hamilton says it was wrong to criticise his nephew for wearing a princess dress. Check out cover for Vanity Fair

‘As with most lives lived under such close scrutiny, in Hamilton’s there have been occasional wrinkles. He has long had a sturdy social media communion—his present Instagram followership is more than 29 million—but not everything has always landed as he’d hoped it might. We discuss one particularly difficult moment. On Christmas Day 2017, he posted to the world what was presumably intended as a cute and amusing 12-second video in which he sits with his nephew, who’s wearing a purple-and-pink dress and brandishing a wand with a fluffy pink heart at its end. “Why are you wearing a princess dress?” Hamilton asks the boy, who is laughing. “Is this what you got for Christmas? Why did you ask for a princess dress for Christmas? Boys don’t wear princess dresses!”

The world’s response was swift. Hamilton was condemned for gender shaming and other insensitivities. A typical forceful riposte: “Go stick your toxic masculinity up your arse.”

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