I am about as far from a monarchist as you can get but fair play to the lad. 10 years in the Army , has championed mental health issues for years and setting up the Invictus games is a pretty solid legacy at his age. Smoking weed, running around naked in a las vegas hotel, playing strip billiards, punching photographers and turning up at a party dressed as a Nazi are hardly things that an emotionally rigid wet noodle would do. If anything Markle has calmed him down and made him a bit more PC and less laddish.

Losing your mum (at you don't have to buy into her sainthood to agree) at 12, whether that be at the hands of the reckless selfish paparazzi or a conspiracy of lizard relatives must be hard, especially when you old man is probably not your old man