With Meghan and Harry, Kate reveals she is up to carrying out that vital royal duty… bearing a grudge against relatives | Catherine Bennett
She couldn’t manage to grin and bear it for one more hour with the soon-to-be-leaving royal couple
The royals: an apology. In recent years it has been persuasively argued that younger members of the royals are more empathetic than their sourer, or weirder elders. And thus, as well as nicer, they are better qualified to connect with their subjects, and, in the long term, protect the family fortunes from, say, its members’ regrettable weakness for paedophiles, at home and abroad.
That William speaks well about mental health and Kate reaches out from Kensington Palace/Anmer Hall with her hints on rustic playtimes, have both, for example, been accepted, even by the generally royal-averse, as welcome attempts at improvement. Recently, when the duchess disclosed, to fellow “mum guilt” sufferers, that she knows their pain, I found I had fallen into the habit of not laughing at would-be uplifting statements that may be hardly less inherently comical than, say, Prince Charles’s longstanding ambition to “heal the dismembered landscape and the poisoned soul”.