Harry and Meghan will lose

IT appears that the war of words between the royal family and the Sussexes is set to continue (“Duchess speaks out over ‘false claims’”, The Herald, March 5). It is all becoming a bit unseemly.

This is an exchange which, I believe, the Sussexes are unlikely to win. The Queen obviously loves her grandson, Harry, but there are limits to the extent of her indulgence, as was shown with her reaction to his request to be as it were, half-in and half-out of the royal family.

The Firm, as it is often referred to over the years, has met and handled many challenges of greater moment than being faced with the contentions of Harry and Meghan from afar. That couple would do well to pay attention to the motto so often applied by members of the royal family – “never complain, never explain”. Prince Andrew departed from that dictum to his cost.