How to save the royals? Stop the psychobabble
Pick the prince who recently said this: ‘I take a long time trying to understand my emotions and why I feel like I do, and I feel like that’s a really important process to do every now and again, to check in with yourself and work out why you’re feeling like you do.’
Palace ‘terrified’ Andrew could have shared secrets of defence deals
Don’t remove Andrew from the line of succession
The hell of being a jobseeker in 2026
Prince Harry, right? The baffled bailer across the water with too much time on his hands, who in the past, while doped up, has confessed to having conversations with both a trash can and a toilet. O, that the alumni of the Algonquin could have been around to join in!
No, it was Prince William. I must admit that I felt a vague foreboding when I heard his comments on BBC Radio 1’s Life Hacks on Wednesday – the Mental Elf strikes again! How lucky was I to grow up in a time when the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny ruled the roost. Then I felt a glint of malicious mischief, imagining Harry pacing about, complaining to Meghan that mental health was his wheelhouse!
But on the whole, I don’t think it’s good for members of the monarchy to talk about their emotions. These are hard times for people and, though William attempts to give a nod to the fact that he has a very easy life compared to many of his struggling subjects, it all comes out a bit humble-braggy: ‘I’m quite emotionally available, I........
