Old boys’ network no help to Harry

IT WILL add insult to injury for Prince Harry that the peer who put forward an amendment at the House of lords yesterday, trying to prevent him from ever representing the king as a Counsellor of State, was a fellow Old etonian.

lord Berkeley put his name to the amendment seeking to exclude the Duke of Sussex and ‘ any other person who in the opinion of the lord Chancellor has not in the immediately preceding two years undertaken royal duties on a regular basis’.

tony Berkeley feels strongly about the Prince. last week, he asked: ‘What is the position of Prince andrew and Prince Harry, who no longer have the role to do royal duties?

‘ Can they be removed or have they been removed or will they be standing in for His majesty even though they don’t do royal duties?’