All brothers need their own space
JTHE inevitable secondstage of the fulsome tributes paid to the beautiful duchesses who have married into the Royal Family got off to a splendidly gossipy start this week.
Fuelled by reports that William and Harry are now to have separate offices (royal-watchers call them “courts”, but that’s ridiculously grand for the organising teams that schedule the princes’ official appointments), pundits got even more excited when they heard that Harry and Meghan are moving out of Kensington Palace.
Before Harry’s wedding, William jokily said his younger bro’ was forever raiding his fridge. It will mean a long walk for Harry from Frogmore Cottage in Windsor Great Park if he fancies a late night peanut butter sandwich.
This move out of London is being portrayed as a Diana/Fergie style rift between Kate and Meghan, but isn’t it really just part of growing up? Non-royal brothers don’t generally want to live next door to each other, even if they get on fine. And William, as heir-butone, needs a London base.
Harry, no longer even the “spare” since George, Charlotte and Louis were born, is freer to choose his home location and prefers to bring up his new family in the gorgeous rural surroundings of Windsor.
RWilliam also has a country house in Norfolk. Not so Harry; and though he will always be our favourite royal boy, his distance from the throne means he’s going to have to cut his coat according to his cloth.
He won’t even be as rich as Wills, especially when his brother becomes Prince of Wales after their father inherits the throne.
Kate and Meghan are “very different people”, as a royal aide diplomatically told the press this week. Kate’s an English rose, as traditional as she’s beautiful, and suits the rather formal William to a T, and her gorgeous children look like the cast from The Sound Of Music.
Kate is aware, of course, that one day she’ll be Queen, and radiates a sense of responsibility. She can’t be quite as off-the-wall and spontaneous as her new sister-in-law. Meghan’s a California girl – that says it all.
As for reports that Kate cried after little Charlotte was fitted for her bridesmaid’s dress before Meghan’s wedding, well frankly that’s weddings for you. It’s true, they bring out everyone’s inner Bridezilla.
Let’s relax and enjoy our young duchesses and their interestingly different temperaments. And have a great time envying their stunning, stylish clothes.
THREE cheers for Piers Morgan, who on Wednesday’s Good Morning Britain stuck it to Rotherham’s ridiculous, repellent and oh-so-right-on social services, exposed for their monstrous decision to offer a jailed rapist parental access to his victim’s child. After hearing from the outraged mother – grooming gang victim Sammy Woodhouse who bore Rotherham rapist Arshid Hussain’s son when she was 15 – Morgan was scripted to read a pusillanimous statement from the council (which of course declined to offer the programme a living, breathing spokesperson). “I’m not reading this c**p,” a clearly disgusted Morgan said, screwing the statement up. “They’re telling me to in my earpiece, but I won’t do it. Let Rotherham social services sue me. I don’t care.”
The identity of the fools who decided that Hussain should be offered legal access to a child conceived by brutal abuse has so far been kept tightly under wraps. The council statement piously said they “welcome a debate around the issue”. Really?
Then why won’t they take part in it?