The royal uproar

I was puzzled that Prince Harry – who once with his brother and sister in law championed the Heads Together campaign – appeared unable to help his wife when she needed help with her mental health. It’s sad they are isolating themselves from her father’s and mother’s family (apart from her mother) and now Prince Harry’s family.

As for the royals being racist, Sir Kenneth Olisa – the Queen’s first black Lord Lieutenant – said not only did he not believe the royals were racist, but that he and his wife have discussed the colour of their mixed-race child. My husband’s family on his mother side all had thick, dark, wavy hair. My husband and his siblings were born with a ‘shock’ of black hair. When my first child was born, he was bald (as I was as a baby) then he had flaxen hair again like me. My late mother-inlaw wasn’t impressed, although my husband’s father was blonde and round as a baby and was called ‘snowball!’

So we don’t necessarily get the right responses from our families, but we surely shouldn’t have an all-out war with them because of this?

I am hoping the Archbishop of Canterbury will respond to the claims he had conducted a secret wedding in Harry and Megan’s ‘backyard’ three days before the wedding we viewed in the TV, as that has a lot of implications.

People have said Harry and Meghan’s scenario was like Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson. I watched the interview of them on YouTube in 1969. Edward was very nervous and had a stammer (so not only George VI) and he was obviously very fond of his niece, the Queen. He had no regrets, but no complaints either only he wasn’t given a job! Wallis was same no guile, just saying how happy they had always been,.

Time will tell with Meghan and Harry, the truth always comes out eventually.

Val Petrie Malvern Avenue,