Maple Leaves?

Prince Harry, or whatever we are now supposed to call him, has only just arrived in Canada. Yet he has already threatened to sue the media there, for practices that his family's arrival has imported from London and Los Angeles. They are already sick of the Markles over there. But then, Canada has kept the monarchy for so long mostly by forgetting that it still had it. 

Canada banned the acceptance of British knighthoods and peerages a very long time ago, so that Conrad Black had to renounce his Canadian citizenship in order to enter the House of Lords. Canada waited a week in September 1939 before declaring war on Germany, in order to assert that Britain's declaration was Britain's business, and that Canada would decide for itself. 

There were armed republican uprisings in Upper and Lower Canada as long ago as 1837, and in 1937, when Canada was giving a greater proportion of its population as volunteers for the Spanish Republic than any other country apart from France, then they called themselves the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion, or Mac-Paps, in honour of the rebel leaders from a century before. And so on.

Harry is not very bright, and Meghan is not particularly well-informed. They will rue the day that they stepped on this hornets' nest.