I never thought I’d say this, but it’s time to bring Prince Harry home

These days, even Tories like myself are finding it hard to defend the hereditary principle.

Personally, I have no taste for republicanism, due to my incapacity for envy. That emotion or weakness is quite absent from my makeup.

In the face of other people’s good fortune, I am as inert as a deaf person at a recital. But a Starmer government will find the fact that the Royal family has more money and more privilege than the rest of us interesting.

The ill feeling between the Windsor boys has gone on long enough. Their reconciliation will be good for their family and the country.

I increasingly feel that the future of the Royal family may depend on its ability to cheer the public, and what it lacks now is the requisite joyfulness.