Rift between royal brothers laid bare in new book extract

[Denzil_DC]

11. It's a heinous dynamic.

Diana, William and Harry's mother, was constant headline fodder while she was alive. The outpouring of ostentatious demonstrations of grief on her death, spearheaded on by the very same media that had spent years pilliorying her, and indeed was literally actively pursuing her when her car crashed, was sickening to many of us who may not wish any of them ill personally (with the possible exception of Andrew, given current revelations) for the accident of their birth, but don't have any time for royalty as an institution.

I remember when Harry and Meghan married. It was odd to see the enthusiasm among many US DUers for the royal family when feelings about them are very mixed and ambivalent among us in the UK. That the media turned on Meghan with ill-disguised racism wasn't really a surprise.

I think when Elizabeth finally dies or becomes so infirm she can no longer fulfil her duties, there will be a great recalibration of the role of royalty in the UK, perhaps on the model of some of the nordic countries, which think little or nothing of pomp and circumstance, and where their royals mix in public much like commoners.