I support Megxit, says ex-PM Dave from Down Under

AS PRINCE Harry licks his wounds after admitting that he ‘ had no option’ but to quit royal duties, David Cameron has stepped forward to offer him and Meghan some words of comfort.

The former prime minister says he believes that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s new life outside the Royal Family in North America could be a success for them and ‘the Firm’ they left behind.

‘This is a discussion for the Royal Family to have internally, but I’m sure they can make these arrangements work,’ says Cameron, who left Downing Street after he lost the Brexit referendum in 2016.

This is a bit of deft diplomacy on Cameron’s part, given he was himself guilty of an embarrassing breach of royal protocol.

When he was PM, he passed on a private conversation he’d had with the Queen, revealing that Her Majesty had ‘purred down the line’ when he told her about Scotland’s rejection of independence in the 2014 referendum.

His experience of being prime minister has helped him understand Harry and Meghan’s troubled relationship with the media, he says.

‘I think anyone who’s been in the public eye and had to cope with some of the pressures that you get from the media, they’re going to all have some sympathy,’ Cameron says.

‘When you’re in politics — and if you’re prime minister and you’re getting shot at from every angle — you do at least think: “Well, you know, one day I won’t be prime minister and I’ll return to a more private life.” I suppose in the Royal Family you’re facing that potentially for ever.’

Cameron is a royalist and described Harry as a ‘nice and a thoughtful young man’ in a TV interview in Australia. The Prince voiced his displeasure last week about the terms on which he and Meghan had agreed to give up all royal duties in order to pursue their ‘financial independence’.

In a speech at a Chelsea restaurant, Harry said he and Meghan were standing down from the Royal Family with ‘great sadness’, but that they had ‘no other option’.

He added that he wanted them and their son, Archie, to have a ‘more peaceful’ life.