Don’t share your private grief with Oprah, Megs

FiVe thousand miles away, how Meghan must be longing to be by Harry’s side today of all days as he walks behind the coffin of his beloved grandfather.

How he, too, must wish that his wife — unable to fly as she’s heavily pregnant with their second child — could be here to offer counsel and comfort as he grieves.

to help him navigate the desperately fractured Royal Family. to help heal the rift with his brother william, not to mention Kate.

the Duchess of sussex will still take part in the mourning. she will reportedly make ‘private arrangements’ to honour prince philip during his funeral.

Let’s just hope that doesn’t include sharing her innermost thoughts with oprah winfrey.

this is a time for quiet reflection, not public declaration of the deep bond she claims she had with prince philip, who she had little time to get to know and probably met only a few times.

i hope for her sake she will let discretion be the better part of valour and not repeat her and Harry’s very public Remembrance Day performance of last year, when they conducted their own ‘private’ service for the fallen in a Los Angeles military cemetery. He had been denied the ‘right’ for his wreath to be laid at the Cenotaph in absentia.

they have no royal rights now, they gave them up for a life of luxury not duty in LA.

And i dearly hope Meghan will not have a celebrity photographer conveniently on hand — as the couple did on Remembrance Day — to capture her ‘private’ grief for the Duke and post it on their website.

Her ‘private arrangements’ should remain just that, private.

our thoughts are with philip’s close family, his children, his grandchildren and his Queen.

is it too much to hope that, after the incendiary interview with oprah that cast such a cloud over the Royal Family as the Duke died, the Duchess of sussex has finally learned that silence can be golden?

someone should point out to her that ‘silent’ is an anagram of ‘listen’ — and this is the moment to listen to the senior royals, understand their pain and follow the example set by philip of quietly, privately supporting the monarchy.

How tragic that in her brief stint as a royal she failed to recognise the dignity and power of silence — that less is more, and particularly so when a family is deep in mourning.