Prince Harry is an international problem.
As the son of the King of England, Harry is a celebrity; he’s famous for being famous, rather than for any particular talent or position. He isn’t a governmental official, though he pretends to be one. He isn’t even particularly well-liked. He and his wife gather headlines and can throw a public temper tantrum, which is covered by the New York Times and the BBC.
This weekend, Harry drew international headlines yet again. He lost a major security case in the UK. At the heart of the matter is the question: do some famous people deserve publicly-funded security at the cost of millions per year? Can a famous person demand governmental protection and even dictate how that security should work? The UK courts have definitively said no.
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My instinct is: Salman Rushdie yes, abortion clinic doctors yes Prince Harry no Meghan Markle Hell No! Then, having come to an instinctive view, I try and find some universal principle I can claim to be upholding, and come up kinda dry. Dave
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Yay, royal gossip. What a mess. It’s hard to feel sorry for him; despite how messed up growing up in that situation must have been, he’s a grown up now! And it’d be nice for those kids to know some of their relatives.
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