Poor Prince Harry. He has been confronted with the fact that, by marrying an American, he will be connecting himself to people who answered back. That must have come as a shock to his Spencer side at least as much as to his Windsor side.
No, the Windsors have not given Meghan Markle a family life that she never previously enjoyed. But then, nor is the monarchy apolitical. Nor does the Queen nevertheless exercise a quiet but much-valued political influence. Nor is she frugal, a proposition that is downright laughable. Nor does Prince Charles personally raise millions of pounds per year for charity. Nor are minutely choreographed events, often featuring dragoons of uniformed schoolchildren, spontaneous expressions of popular affection.
Yet we all pretend to believe these and numerous other ridiculous things. As we would all have pretended to believe that the Windsors had given Meghan Markle a family life that she had never previously enjoyed. But instead, like Prince Harry, we have been confronted with the fact that, by marrying an American, he will be connecting himself to people who answered back.
No, the Windsors have not given Meghan Markle a family life that she never previously enjoyed. But then, nor is the monarchy apolitical. Nor does the Queen nevertheless exercise a quiet but much-valued political influence. Nor is she frugal, a proposition that is downright laughable. Nor does Prince Charles personally raise millions of pounds per year for charity. Nor are minutely choreographed events, often featuring dragoons of uniformed schoolchildren, spontaneous expressions of popular affection.
Yet we all pretend to believe these and numerous other ridiculous things. As we would all have pretended to believe that the Windsors had given Meghan Markle a family life that she had never previously enjoyed. But instead, like Prince Harry, we have been confronted with the fact that, by marrying an American, he will be connecting himself to people who answered back.
You and Peter Hitchens are both going republican, you'll both get there in the end.
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