Who is the weakest link?

AGAINST some very stiff competition, perhaps the daftest thing I’ve read so far about the Harry-Meghan saga was the Instagram post by the Duchess’s friend (and daughterin-law of a former Canadian PM) Jessica Mulroney after the couple’s announcement about stepping back from royal duties: “A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink.”

Is ditching the mundane responsibilities of a position while insisting on the maintenance of all the perks that go with it really what defines a “strong woman” today?

Or does it unintentionally reveal more about Meghan and her equally gormless sounding pal Jessica?

Having said that, it seems a little unfair for all the opprobrium over the matter to be heaped on the duchess (below with Jessica).

Harry’s never been the brightest bulb but nor is he entirely the hapless half-wit manipulated by a scheming wife stereotype, as often portrayed at present.

The tendency to see him forever as the 12-year-old walking behind his mother’s coffin conceals a grown man of 35 whose thin-skinned petulance and sense of entitlement might mirror his wife’s, but is also hardly a previously unknown trait in his family.

Finally, having once enjoyed a wonderful break myself on Vancouver Island, I can confirm that it is an ideal remote place to get away from it all. And if you believe that someone who gave up an unremarkable acting career for marriage into the world’s most famous family now seeks a life of relative obscurity there, you’ll believe anything.

HAVING read the above, you could be forgiven for concluding I’m a raging republican. But you don’t have to like the members to be in favour of maintaining the institution.

As is the vast majority of the public in every poll conducted about the monarchy – much to the

chagrin of many of those now loudest in professing their support of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

Harry should beware the motives of his supposed new friends; he might one day discover that he was merely a useful dupe for them.