Over the weekend, Prince Harry attracted the best headlines and coverage in this country that he has received for months – possibly since he and Meghan staged their abdication of all responsibilities and fled to Montecito in 2021. This was all because of his carefully choreographed charitable and public endeavours. The praise included ‘how easy he made it look’ and how Harry had ‘stopped sulking and played a blinder’. Even the Daily Telegraph wrote that ‘it was genuinely gratifying to see Harry back in Blighty, doing what he does best this week’ and urged Prince William to reconcile with him.

This was exactly what Harry had wished for with his quasi-royal visit to his former home country. In order to celebrate, naturally, he gave an exclusive interview to the Guardian, that well-known bastion of royalist sentiment, to mark his trip to Ukraine after his British visit. Those expecting revelations about his father after their brief meeting earlier in the week would be disappointed. Harry stuck to the party line, speaking highly of his work with the Invictus Foundation and his military service. 

Like Harry, the Duke of Windsor became bored in exile and started pining........

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