The sharpest thing Kate did wasn’t said out loud but it lands like a slap, and Harry will feel it in every headline.
If Oscar Wilde was alive today he would roll his eyes at Prince Harry – because he knows exactly the game the will-he-won’t-he teasing royal is playing. In his 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, the character Lord Henry Wotton remarks: “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
It was satirising Victorian society’s obsession with being relevant and getting attention rather than being ignored or forgotten by history. Prince Harry cannot stand the idea of the British people forgetting him hence why even a simple trip to the UK with his family this summer is becoming a tiresome, drawn out soap opera.
Vanity Fair recently claimed drama queen Harry was left “close to tears” by the fiasco over his security arrangements after being told that the Royal and VIP Executive Committee (RAVEC) would not be providing full-time police protection during the trip – because he’s not a working royal.
Meanwhile – while multi-millionaire Harry is wondering how he is going to keep his family safe in the UK with just dozens of security guards but no police with guns – Catherine Princess of Wales delivered a brutal riposte.
On Thursday at Wimbledon, Kate spent the afternoon watching tennis and popping between courts to see the best of the action.
Now if Harry and Meghan had been in her shoes, they would have been bustled in wearing sunglasses acting like VIPs with burly security guards and stormed straight to the Royal Box to hunt for celebrities to mingle with.
However Kate, who recently finished the Three Peaks Challenge, opted not to sit in the Royal Box and went to watch a match among the public, sat at the back on one of the outside courts, sat next to former player Tim Henman, then later Andy Murray.
After entering the grounds, Kate was welcomed by a round of applause and cheers as she walked past Henman Hill.
Harry likes us to think he’s a man of the people but all those years living in California has baked his brain when it comes to security – not that he should not have it, but his delusion that the UK is more dangerous than anywhere else.
I’m pretty sure Harry and Meghan don’t need official police escorts when they pop to the shops in Montecito, if they ever do pop to the shops – they will have security no doubt, but then everyone in the US can legally carry firearms.
Meghan and Harry were able to move freely in Australia with their own paid security (Image: Getty)
When Harry and Meghan went to Australia recently they had private security they paid for. That seemed to work out alright. So what’s the problem with them paying for their own security when they come here?
The answer is there is none. But where is the fun simply coming over? How are they going to make their trip a national event?
Maybe by making it seem like they are 50/50 about coming at all. That they are victims yet again of ‘the Firm’ and the ‘Institutions’.
Meanwhile Kate just sits among the punters and watches the tennis. Game, Set and Match to her I reckon!
