The British Royal Family has long since morphed from a pillar of state into an international soap opera.
Yet the antics of the soap cast’s leading bad boy Prince Harry have plumbed new depths of bathos even as his ghosted memoir “Spare” climbs the bestseller lists.
The astonishing revelations of the book and Harry’s accompanying TV interviews - ranging from his fight with his brother, his Taliban kill count in Afghanistan, and the frostbite that nipped the Princely penis in the Arctic - have shown us a family more dysfunctional than that of Henry VIII.
It has also provided a prurient public with the greatest Royal scandal since the messy divorce of Harry’s parents and his mother’s death in the 1990s.
Harry’s outrageous attacks on his own family, coupled with jaw dropping self-pity and mawkish self-absorption, reveal a deeply troubled person who has chosen to have his nervous collapse in the full glare of 21st century publicity.
It’s all rather ironic given the Prince of Peeves is constantly speaking of his desire to escape the hungry media pack who he blames for killing his mother and who he claims are now in hot pursuit of him and his “perfect” wife.
Harry’s hypocritical bleats come accompanied by the full chorus of Californian psycho-babble that he has unthinkingly adopted.
He mouths the nostrums of wokedom as he speaks of his “healing journey” - as though born in an ashram rather than a palace.
And he tries to pull at our heartstrings as he ludicrously speaks of his “suffering” from the luxury of his LA mansion with its 16 bathrooms.
If Harry studied his family history, he would know that he is not the first royal to throw off the burdens of duty and responsibility in favour of marriage to a divorced American adventuress with ambition.
In 1936, Harry’s great-great uncle King Edward VIII, gave up his unwanted throne to wed Wallis Simpson.
The couple, demoted to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, spent the rest of their sad lives as international white trash, condemned to an empty and loveless existence on the fringes of High Society and shunned by the family and country they had so roundly rejected.
Harry and Meghan seem all too likely to share a similar fate.
After all, without the trappings of monarchy that he was born into, the Prince stands exposed for what he is: a dim and entitled egotist who has chosen not only to reject and flee his family and country, but to spit on and shred the reputations of those who loved him most.
As the dust settles on the pages of “Spare”, attention will shift to the coronation of the father he has hurt so grievously.
Will the clown Prince and his wife be invited to the ceremony in London this May, and if so, will they deign to attend?
By his own actions Harry has made himself as welcome in Westminster as the bearer of a toxic bacillus.
In doing so, he has become his own worst enemy.
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