Harry’s valuable life lessons for unhappy royals

When most of us want a bit of privacy, we just stay at home and watch television, paint our skirting boards or anything else to avoid social interaction (or media intrusion, if you have the kind of lifestyle).

Staying at home is quite easily achieved during a global pandemic, especially if you’ve got a pretty big house and a generously-sized garden in Los Angeles.

Yet Prince Harry, who left the country amid claims he wanted to be left alone to live his life, apparently seems to think that the best way to achieve privacy is to analyse endlessly his upbringing and family relationships, in the most public way possible.

You can’t avoid it, even if you’re not that interested. Online news is awash with Harry ‘n’ Meghan, even on the rare occasions they don’t break cover to share their thoughts on the ills of the world

(and the seemingly inexhaustible ills of their own families).

Harry is well aware that his every word is gold dust to those elements of the media he despises, yet he can’t stop opening the door and offering global audiences a less than tantalising glimpse into his therapy sessions, with the obligatory celebrity interviewer

(although I hadn’t actually heard of the last one).

It’s a bit misguided to ‘take sides’ in the royal soap opera, because no one knows exactly what has gone on within the family.

We’re only guessing, based on media reports of varying reliability. It should be played out privately, and has to a certain degree, although Harry seems to be doing his best to change that. Most will surely agree that his older brother has behaved with a great deal more dignity.

Like so many people on Facebook, Harry seems to love talking about himself under the deluded claim that this self-absorption somehow offers a valuable life lesson to others. If you too have been brought up as a key figure within a heriditary monarchy but want to escape the shackles and move to LA, I hope the advice is all proving useful.

‘He seems to think the best way to achieve privacy is to analyse endlessly his upbringing and family relationships, in the most public way possible’