The Ginger Pimpernel – as the world will probably not be calling the Duke of Sussex – has popped up once again. It was widely assumed that, after his surprisingly successful quasi-royal visit to Britain this week, he would be returning to Montecito and his family, but he has wrongfooted everyone by instead hopping over on an unannounced visit to Kyiv. There, he and other members of the Invictus Games Foundation were due to meet wounded military personnel and to announce new initiatives to offer unspecified (but presumably financial) assistance, which will be going towards sports recovery programmes to aid the rehabilitation of veterans injured in the ongoing conflict.

It is hard not to believe that he is enjoying the sensation of being in demand again.

Harry has already been to Ukraine once this year, visiting in April, but told the Guardian (naturally) that he had been invited back to the country by Olga Rudnieva, founder and CEO of the Superhumans Trauma Centre, and that she informed him that ‘the biggest impact you have is coming........

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