‘The duke’s sense of grievance,” said the Court of Appeal judge Sir Geoffrey Vos gently, “does not translate into a legal argument.” Prince Harry’s loss of working-royal security was, he said, “an unintended consequence” of stepping away from duties; “understandable, and perhaps predictable”. Not understandable by Harry. His half-hour BBC interview was unforgettable: aggrieved, embarrassing, repetitive, enraging.
He suggested dark secret wrongs, mourned self-exile from his homeland but wanted reconciliation only if his “truth” was acknowledged and demands met. He said that the royal household effectively tried to imprison him and his wife and — clearly for the US market — that if anything happened to them it would damage Britain’s reputation.
He cited an al-Qaeda threat, without admitting that it followed his own public